Zone 8b - Marigolds, Nasturtiums, Crocus, Cosmos, Alyssum, Sunflowers, Sweet Pea, Zinnia, Echinacea. Yours are quite lovely, and can’t wait to see your cottage garden all in bloom!!!!❤❤❤❤
OMG Brian!! I love how organised you are makes is so much easier and pleasurable to do it. I am going to try my best to do that this weekend when I start my seeds.
I have used the seed wicking trays and they work great! I keep a wooden plant steak on hand to dip down to check the water level (flat end not pointed one, lol) so I don't have to lift up and disturb anything. Easy to see the water level on the dry wood. Popcicle stick would probably work ok also.
I have learned so much from this video, from making your labels before you get your hands dirty to using horticultural vermiculite. Also I learned a lot from you demonstration of the self watering seed trays. Your selection of flowers is beautiful, I can’t wait to see them in the garden
Brian, you are amazing. The cottage is gorgeous and the garden will look lovely in full bloom. Don’t worry about purple larkspur in amongst the soft color palette they will be lovely and when the morning sun shines through them they will look absolutely magical amongst the pastels. I can’t wait to see the entire picture.💕
I garden in Israel. The wether here is quite similar to yours (another reason why I enjoy your channel). I sow Foxglaves, Hollyhock, Ammy and Nicotiana in the fall up to December. By March, April, it will be too late. Actually most of these flowers self seed for me at the beginning of the winter.
I’ve also been using the seed starting trays from Gardeners Supply for a few years and love them. I am growing my usual petunias, marigolds, zinnias, snapdragons, and more. This year for the first time I am trying geraniums from seeds (along with my cuttings from last year) they are doing really well. My other new seed try is lisianthus. My oh my, those are a real challenge! I got them to germinate but they are sooooo tiny. I know they are suppose to be slow and stay small but I have my doubts on these.
In my potager garden, I'm growing lots of Queen Lime mix zinnias, Cupcake cosmos (petals look pleated like cupcake papers), and CA poppies as annuals. Plus lots of roses, calla lilies, tiger lilies, shasta daisies, watsonia, montbretia, etc. You might think about spanish bluebell bulbs! You can't kill them, gophers don't eat them, they naturalize, and they're a delicate lavender-blue that come back every year. Oh, and I use boiling water to moisten the seed starting mix and let it cool before planting. No bleach needed!
In my NW UK garden, Spanish bluebells are basically invasive. I like them a lot, but I need room for other things, and at the moment that space is Spanish bluebell territory.
BRIAN, I AM SO THANKFUL THAT YOU EXPLAIN EVERYTHING TO US. WE ARE LEARNING SO MUCH. FATHER GOD BLESS YOU BRIAN AND YOUR FAMILY IN JESUS NAME 🙏 ❤ 🙌 WE LOVE YALL ❤
I have started alyssum, strawflower, Strawberry fields, poppies, Batchelor buttons in the greenhouse so far. Have calendula and nasturtiums volunteers in the garden up already. Planning to start stock, zinnias, cosmos soon. And figuring out what else I want. Love your list of flowers.
We have had the self watering system from Gardeners Supply and we have been very pleased with them. Most all of their products have been great and they also have excellent service!
I have a cottage garden here in Melbourne Australia. I grow cosmos, Queen Anne lace, Dara, Larkspur, Delphiniums, Foxgloves, cornflowers, poppies, sweet William, Nigella, Gyp,zinnias,sweet peas and many Roses. I grow all my annuals from seed and I wash all my trays and pots in water with bleach. I bottom water all my seedlings. I don’t have to start foxgloves each year they self seed in my brick path and I just pull them up and place them in the garden
Just a tip for everyone: you can do the water wicking without buying special stuff; use a hole-less tray, overturn shallow deli-type containers or baking dishes, etc in the tray, lay microfiber cloths cut to fit with edges draped over..set cups, etc on top of cloths, add water. I did this while on vacay..it worked fabulous!
I’ve sowed, marigolds, zinnias, cosmos, seashells, and just starting my sunflowers this weekend. Living in Oregon zone 6B we’re still having pretty rough cold weather right now.
I am planting Matsumoto Formula Mixed Aster( a free gift from Baker Creek), Tall Double Mix Strawflower, Cosmos Candyfloss red, Hollyhock Creme de Cassis, and Pink Senorita Zinnia. Best luck to everyone growing your treasures. :)
I have bags of marigold seeds from our daughter. I also have cosmos, which are blooming now. My California poppies are opening up, and I have a front yard FULL of sunflowers!
It’s my first season using the self watering trays and I love them! Side note anyone in Canada you can get them from Veseys Seeds since gardener supply does not ship here :)
I'm trying Dahlias for the first time this year. I ordered the tubers online from a catalog. A few of them are already a foot tall. I hope they make a lot of flowers. I bought several different varieties. Got my fingers crossed.
I am planting some foxglove I got some already growing and some pelletier seeds. Coneflower tomatoes squash cucumber. Trying dahlia the first time this year because I saw your video the other day. Thanks
I planted Zenias for the first time last year and I loved them. I am doing it again. I need to plant some flowers in a shaded area but it is usually very hot in Pasadena.
Very hot in Arkansas. Sormy this morning, or it was supposed to. Now its sunny and windy and hot. I have pink echincea and also found some white echinacea. I planted a lilac bush also. I have some of that furry fertilizer plant. I started some mexican sunflowers. They are popping up. I have a bunch of zinnias I havent planted yet . My bee balm is up and filling up my kiddie pool. A bonus,,,a bunny planted her babies in my kiddie pool full of thyme. Dont you just love nature. All my winter sowing milk jugs are filling up with lettuce, chard, chijimisai, chinese brocolli and early cabbage. I need to start some tomatoes and okra today i hope. Hope you all are having a blessed day and a blessed garden jouney.
Ami, Dara, Buplerum, calendula.black eye Susan’s, fever few(3 varieties), ageratum, baby’s breath, true hyssop, anise hyssop, bee balm, snap dragons (6 varieties) Salvia, Celosias (10 varieties), all the amaranths I could find, sunflowers 🌻 branching and pro cuts, straw flowers, statice, yarrow and zinnias ( Benarys giant and queeny) perennials Sea holly, Dahlias, liatris, Veronica….. Note: My fall sown 10/22 to 12/22, snaps, statice, foxgloves, Billy’s ball, orlya, are starting to flower along with my ranunculus. This is so fun, I’m sure I forgot to mention some. I’m growing in zone 9b Sacramento Ca
Marigold, nasturtium, zinnias, sunflowers, amaranth, Columbine, coneflower. That's all I can remember off the top of my head... I am also growing comfrey this year for the first time...which I realize isn't necessarily a flower flower, but really looking forward to it added in my garden/yard.
I've been slowly starting a pollinator garden. so far we have several colors of hyacinth, day lillies (that were already growing in the area), swamp milkweed, anemone, Tiger Lillies. Allium, Adding phlox, sea holly, echinacia. always have marigolds. and adding Lily of the Valley under the pine trees. OH, can't forget the catnip. grows wild. I kept 2 plants for the cat of course😊
I’ve cleaned my plant trays with peroxide, also bleach water and recently I’ve just sprayed them pretty clean with H2O. I didn’t see any difference in germination or disease! I love the varieties of flowers you’ve chosen for your cottage and Mediterranean gardens.
These are some of the perennials I grow, more than one variety of most of them. Except for daylilies I don’t grow any of them from seed. Aster, Agastache, Aquilegia, Astilbe, Brunnera, Dianthus, Daylily, Dicentra, Echinacea, Epimedium, Gaillardia, Geranium, Hardy Hibiscus, Hellebore, Heuchera, Hosta, Iris, Leucanthemum, Nepeta, Peony, Penstemon, Primula, Salvia and Scabiosa. I have a small garden and consider myself more a collector than a gardener. Two standout performers for length of bloom time are Gaillardia and Scabiosa.
Thank you for the flower starting inspiration. I want to work some more flowers into my yard, so it's nice to see what you are doing to get some ideas. I used a self-watering seed starting tray similar to the one you show but not from Gardeners Supply. I liked it. But I found that by the second year, the wicking mat was growing algae. I didn't know how to clean it since mine seemed to be a paper product. This may very well be the result of seed starting outside in the sun and exposed to everything blowing around in the air.
First year I'm doing flowers from seed for my tomato companions (well, that and my mother in-law 😂)... nasturtium, marigold, bergamot, morning glory, canterbury bells
This was a fantastic video. Well paced and even though most of us know how to sow seeds, it's always great to see other methods. Those trays are awesome I'm gonna check them out! I wanted to do foxgloves this year too. Gonna have to seed shop... Again 😆
@@cathybestlercurtis I’ve done veg gardens off and on, but until recently, I’ve been a house plant assassin. I’m working on it now, and my fingers are firmly crossed, lol 🤞🏽
Thanks for sharing your tips and processes for sowing seeds. I actually set up my very first indoor system this year. I have zonal geraniums, marie chabaud dianthus and lisianthus germinated and growing. I also planted tomatoes, peppers, cantaloupe and broccoli...all growing well enough to pot up. I bought a different wicking tray system that I'm not sure works as well as GS...or I'm just not using it quite right. All in all, I'm excited to see how well this all works out. Looking forward to your zinnia segment!
I live in Queensland, Australia 🇦🇺 and we are in Autumn at the moment... I have planted Sweet Pea seeds for the first time ever and they are starting to sprout now.......really looking forward to their beautiful flowers 🌺💐🌺 I am bad for over watering seeds so those self watering seed trays might be just the ticket.
I've heard from other gardeners or you tubers that they soak there potting mix in boiling water to minimize gnats and diseases., but i havent heard of bleach. so I started doing that but I still got gnats anyway. Darn It! I got some bits so I'll see how that works. Nancy from nebraska
Alicebjack@ I struggle with them. They grow slow and leggy. I live in South Florida, growing zone 10, and have very sandy (alkaline) soil. What could I do? Any help would be greatly appreciated by me and the butterflies 🦋 ☺️
Germinating: Sunflowers, hollyhock, marigolds, borage, echinacea, and lupine. Lavender if it makes it. I have some iris seeds I may germinate, though my yard is full of irises.
I'm growing foxglove, mullein, hollyhocks, salvia, echinacea, phlox, scabiosa, cosmos, alyssum, penstemon. I think that's it. I have a lot of perennials too like lavender and delphiniums so there's not a lot of space left : )
Wish I watched this before I put my Zinnias seedlings outside yesterday. I put a plastic bottle over them to keep the squirrels away and hopefully keeping warm. It was 37 overnight. Ugh I will buy marigolds because the seeds from the previous year never sprout for me.
Love flowers of all kinds! Im not able to use heating mats. Don't have the extra money for them. I still grow a lot from seed which not everything does not germinate.
Also top of water heater! If not enough room get a metal dish rack thing from dollar tree and it should go over the pipes coming out of the top of water heater!
My OCD heart swoons! Great job of keeping everything clean! Since I have a new garden, I am placing lots of seeds everywhere, the more invasive the better. TwoI rely on is Cosmos and Rose Champion. I gave up on the guara's of the world as they are a hot mess....Have a great weekend!
I have started monarda, two kinds of zinnias, foxglove, salvia, hyssop, cosmos, and lavender. They started well but are kind of stalling out because ( I think) they need potting on and I simply have no room until the weather warms up.
Just planted out some Four O’Clocks (Mirabilis jalapa) seedlings, never tried them but had 100% germination and they seem to be extremely hardy and pest resistant.
One thing I learned. Hollyhocks do not like the deep south. They will get a fungus impossible to remove. They will grow and bloom but get covered in ugly black spots. I will experiment on different flowers this year I finally got lavender to grow from seed. I kind of get over excited when a seedling pops up. Thanx for the video I now have more seeds to buy.🙃🙃
Love your choices of flowers. Beautiful plants. I heard many of your videos it was raining. Doesn’t the song claim that it never rains in California? 😂
Nice fflowers. I buy plants. I got away, from making seedlings. Lpts of work. I always have lots of vegetables, flowers, and fruits. I don't make seedlings anymore.
I just sowed some parsley, dill and fennel today and covered them with vermiculite, I'll be finding little glints of it shining on my carpet for weeks, it doesn't matter how careful you are... there willl be vermiculite somewhere, I promise.
Parsley does best if you put the seed trays in a ziploc bag and put them in the freezer for a day or two. I usually get 100% germination with parsley that way.
Oops, forgot. I also left the whole thing on my heat mat and it did great. Seems like the heat mat kept the constant water reservoir warm therefore warming the soul as it is drawn up
Hi Brian, I ordered those double hollyhocks from a well known bulb company and the set came with 5 different colors and only one survived. Next time I will order the single hollyhocks but I am having trouble finding them. Have you tried Delphinium , Daisies or Gladiolus? I planted a bunch of Gladiolus that I love, but in my area( North East) I have to lift them in fall, so this year I am trying a kind that don't need to be lifted or staked. I plant my families " Birth Month" flower in my garden and flowers that have significance to me personally . ( Daughter/ August= Gladiolus- Son/May= Lilly of the Valley- Husband/ Dec.= Amarylis( for house plant)🌺 and me/ Daffodils)
Wild flowers are blooming in a raised bed, also nasturtiums, sun flowers, ganzia, petunias, rosella, carpacopia, mist flower, red salvia, marigold, chamomile. These are all planted and blooming. Zinnias have not bloomed yet, not my lavender vinca. Overwintered angel trumpet and dark purple vinca. Borage and comfrey both now blooming. Also blooming now are my Dutch iris, freesias and day lilies. Blue hyssop not blooming yet, frog fruit blooming now.
Thank you for this video. New at starting my own seed. Excited about the new seed trays. Can’t wait to try those. QUESTION. Is it ok to have your seed growing station by a window? Blessings ❤️🌺
Oh I wish I would get the zinnia tips right away because I fear I might mess things up with my seedlings! I have quite short growing season so I sow zinnia seeds two weeks ago. Very good germination rate and they are under grow lights. Is there any specific thing I should look out for? I think the zinnias will get transplanted outside in late May, if they have similar temperature requirements to tomato, pepper and eggplant. I'm a zinnia rookie but I had to order seeds because I saw videos of flowers that attract pollinators and beneficial insects to vegetable garden...I was completely mesmerized of how beautiful varieties there are. I hope that they enjoy my south facing balcony garden...
@@NextLevelGardening thanks! Sounds like zinnias are the most warm loving (or requiring) garden plants of mine then😌 I’ll happily keep the daily “flower sunbathing routine” with these until needed. I have glassed balcony and it has kept temperature 6 celsius degrees higher than the weather app indicates. Right now I’ve been able to keep salads and herbs there during daytime although it’s still freezing and snowy here.
Delphinium, painted daisy, black-eyed Susan, sunflowers (several kinds), puppy's, lavender, cosmos, echinacea, bee balm, marigolds (my least favorite flower EVER, but it's a good companion) yarrow, sweet alysum. These are all going into the vegetable garden as I work to draw more pollinators.
Alas, I had back surgery 2 weeks ago and won't be able to work in my garden for four more weeks, God willing. Maybe I can direct sow my seeds...I'm in Georgia, so they should be fine.
I want to do "Love Lies Bleeding", Tithonia, lots of Zinnias, Marigolds (natch), Snapdragons, Bergamot, Sunflowers, CocksComb, Balloon Flower and more - as much as I have room and time for.
You said you expect 2 weeks until germination under the domes, but you only mist/water them this one time until they’re ready for the self-watering tray? Thanks for clarifying!
I decided to start a cut flower garden this year so I’m planting several flowers. I’m testing out the winter sowing method using milk jugs. Zone 3 can be challenging but if you have any suggestions on what I should try growing, please message me. I am growing, Foxglove, Lupins (3 varieties), sunflowers (5 varieties), Echinacea, snapdragons (3 varieties) , Liatris, daisies, Zinnias (4 varieties), Batchelor Buttons, Yarrow, Salvia, Easter Eggs, Baby’s Breath, cosmos, petunias (8 varieties), strawflowers, geraniums, delphiniums, hollyhocks (2 varieties), poppies, morning glories (2 varieties), sweet peas (2 varieties) marigolds, calla lilies, pumpkin on a stick, ground cherries, striped corn, painted dessert, twinkle mix, phlox, and Alyssum.
Hi, Brian-nasturtium, calendula, and marigolds as companion plants, lots of poppies, borage, and other wildflowers, and two sunflowers for the rest of my garden. Quick question: my son gave me strawberry spinach seeds, which are * tiny *!! Any tips on how to plant really minuscule seeds?
What seed companies do you recommend?
Most of these were Johnnys, Park, and Select seed
Thank you!
Swallowtail is good too.
Zone 8b - Marigolds, Nasturtiums, Crocus, Cosmos, Alyssum, Sunflowers, Sweet Pea, Zinnia, Echinacea. Yours are quite lovely, and can’t wait to see your cottage garden all in bloom!!!!❤❤❤❤
Nasturtium, Marigold, Poached Egg, Sunflower, Morning Glory, Allisium, Calendula, Borage, Cosmos, Comfrey.
This is exactly what I sow every year!
OMG Brian!! I love how organised you are makes is so much easier and pleasurable to do it. I am going to try my best to do that this weekend when I start my seeds.
Thanks! It really helps
I have used the seed wicking trays and they work great! I keep a wooden plant steak on hand to dip down to check the water level (flat end not pointed one, lol) so I don't have to lift up and disturb anything. Easy to see the water level on the dry wood. Popcicle stick would probably work ok also.
I have learned so much from this video, from making your labels before you get your hands dirty to using horticultural vermiculite. Also I learned a lot from you demonstration of the self watering seed trays. Your selection of flowers is beautiful, I can’t wait to see them in the garden
Brian, you are amazing. The cottage is gorgeous and the garden will look lovely in full bloom. Don’t worry about purple larkspur in amongst the soft color palette they will be lovely and when the morning sun shines through them they will look absolutely magical amongst the pastels. I can’t wait to see the entire picture.💕
Thank you!
I garden in Israel. The wether here is quite similar to yours (another reason why I enjoy your channel). I sow Foxglaves, Hollyhock, Ammy and Nicotiana in the fall up to December. By March, April, it will be too late. Actually most of these flowers self seed for me at the beginning of the winter.
I’ve also been using the seed starting trays from Gardeners Supply for a few years and love them. I am growing my usual petunias, marigolds, zinnias, snapdragons, and more. This year for the first time I am trying geraniums from seeds (along with my cuttings from last year) they are doing really well. My other new seed try is lisianthus. My oh my, those are a real challenge! I got them to germinate but they are sooooo tiny. I know they are suppose to be slow and stay small but I have my doubts on these.
In my potager garden, I'm growing lots of Queen Lime mix zinnias, Cupcake cosmos (petals look pleated like cupcake papers), and CA poppies as annuals. Plus lots of roses, calla lilies, tiger lilies, shasta daisies, watsonia, montbretia, etc. You might think about spanish bluebell bulbs! You can't kill them, gophers don't eat them, they naturalize, and they're a delicate lavender-blue that come back every year.
Oh, and I use boiling water to moisten the seed starting mix and let it cool before planting. No bleach needed!
In my NW UK garden, Spanish bluebells are basically invasive. I like them a lot, but I need room for other things, and at the moment that space is Spanish bluebell territory.
BRIAN, I AM SO THANKFUL THAT YOU EXPLAIN EVERYTHING TO US. WE ARE LEARNING SO MUCH. FATHER GOD BLESS YOU BRIAN AND YOUR FAMILY IN JESUS NAME 🙏 ❤ 🙌 WE LOVE YALL ❤
❤️
In upstate NY we are growing Bee balm, Purple and White Coneflower, Astible, Black Eyed Susan, Snap Dragon, and Day Lilies.
Zinnia giant and dwarf,marigold,snapdragon,alyssum,sunflowers,cosmos just apperearedin my garden😊
I have started alyssum, strawflower, Strawberry fields, poppies, Batchelor buttons in the greenhouse so far. Have calendula and nasturtiums volunteers in the garden up already. Planning to start stock, zinnias, cosmos soon. And figuring out what else I want. Love your list of flowers.
You have a very honest face and a pleasant manner. Your videos are great.
Thank you
We have had the self watering system from Gardeners Supply and we have been very pleased with them. Most all of their products have been great and they also have excellent service!
I have a cottage garden here in Melbourne Australia. I grow cosmos, Queen Anne lace, Dara, Larkspur, Delphiniums, Foxgloves, cornflowers, poppies, sweet William, Nigella, Gyp,zinnias,sweet peas and many Roses. I grow all my annuals from seed and I wash all my trays and pots in water with bleach. I bottom water all my seedlings. I don’t have to start foxgloves each year they self seed in my brick path and I just pull them up and place them in the garden
My garden flowers this year (the ones in the actual veggie garden) are sunflower, alyssum, borage, marigold, a few others. And sweet peas!
Sounds like you’re getting a good dose of what it’s like to garden in the south. Always crazy.
Just a tip for everyone: you can do the water wicking without buying special stuff; use a hole-less tray, overturn shallow deli-type containers or baking dishes, etc in the tray, lay microfiber cloths cut to fit with edges draped over..set cups, etc on top of cloths, add water. I did this while on vacay..it worked fabulous!
I’ve sowed, marigolds, zinnias, cosmos, seashells, and just starting my sunflowers this weekend. Living in Oregon zone 6B we’re still having pretty rough cold weather right now.
I am planting Matsumoto Formula Mixed Aster( a free gift from Baker Creek), Tall Double Mix Strawflower, Cosmos Candyfloss red, Hollyhock Creme de Cassis, and Pink Senorita Zinnia. Best luck to everyone growing your treasures. :)
I have bags of marigold seeds from our daughter. I also have cosmos, which are blooming now. My California poppies are opening up, and I have a front yard FULL of sunflowers!
It’s my first season using the self watering trays and I love them! Side note anyone in Canada you can get them from Veseys Seeds since gardener supply does not ship here :)
I'm trying Dahlias for the first time this year. I ordered the tubers online from a catalog. A few of them are already a foot tall. I hope they make a lot of flowers. I bought several different varieties. Got my fingers crossed.
I am planting some foxglove I got some already growing and some pelletier seeds. Coneflower tomatoes squash cucumber. Trying dahlia the first time this year because I saw your video the other day. Thanks
Trying flower seeds this year, fab vlog thanks Brian 🥰
I really admire your ability to organize and stay on track.
I have found a small white ceramic dipping bowl works great for small seeds to pick up.
I’ve started holly hocks and lupine this year. They look amazing. I’ve repotted them both and they still look fabulous. Wish me luck.
I planted Zenias for the first time last year and I loved them. I am doing it again. I need to plant some flowers in a shaded area but it is usually very hot in Pasadena.
Very hot in Arkansas. Sormy this morning, or it was supposed to. Now its sunny and windy and hot. I have pink echincea and also found some white echinacea. I planted a lilac bush also. I have some of that furry fertilizer plant. I started some mexican sunflowers. They are popping up. I have a bunch of zinnias I havent planted yet . My bee balm is up and filling up my kiddie pool. A bonus,,,a bunny planted her babies in my kiddie pool full of thyme. Dont you just love nature. All my winter sowing milk jugs are filling up with lettuce, chard, chijimisai, chinese brocolli and early cabbage. I need to start some tomatoes and okra today i hope. Hope you all are having a blessed day and a blessed garden jouney.
EXCELLENT video !!!! So helpful - thank you !!!!
Ami, Dara, Buplerum, calendula.black eye Susan’s, fever few(3 varieties), ageratum, baby’s breath, true hyssop, anise hyssop, bee balm, snap dragons (6 varieties) Salvia, Celosias (10 varieties), all the amaranths I could find, sunflowers 🌻 branching and pro cuts, straw flowers, statice, yarrow and zinnias ( Benarys giant and queeny) perennials Sea holly, Dahlias, liatris, Veronica….. Note: My fall sown 10/22 to 12/22, snaps, statice, foxgloves, Billy’s ball, orlya, are starting to flower along with my ranunculus. This is so fun, I’m sure I forgot to mention some. I’m growing in zone 9b Sacramento Ca
Love all the natives you have in your selection!
Marigold, nasturtium, zinnias, sunflowers, amaranth, Columbine, coneflower. That's all I can remember off the top of my head... I am also growing comfrey this year for the first time...which I realize isn't necessarily a flower flower, but really looking forward to it added in my garden/yard.
I've been slowly starting a pollinator garden. so far we have several colors of hyacinth, day lillies (that were already growing in the area), swamp milkweed, anemone, Tiger Lillies. Allium, Adding phlox, sea holly, echinacia. always have marigolds. and adding Lily of the Valley under the pine trees. OH, can't forget the catnip. grows wild. I kept 2 plants for the cat of course😊
Thank you for all of the work do God Bless you and your family
I am growing; Echinacea, English lavender, Calendula, and marigolds.
I’ve cleaned my plant trays with peroxide, also bleach water and recently I’ve just sprayed them pretty clean with H2O. I didn’t see any difference in germination or disease! I love the varieties of flowers you’ve chosen for your cottage and Mediterranean gardens.
A couple of first year blooming hollyhock if started early, are Indian Spring and Creme de Cassis, both from Baker Creek.
You are a wealth of information and so easy to understand thankyou so much for sharing with us !
These are some of the perennials I grow, more than one variety of most of them. Except for daylilies I don’t grow any of them from seed. Aster, Agastache, Aquilegia, Astilbe, Brunnera, Dianthus, Daylily, Dicentra, Echinacea, Epimedium, Gaillardia, Geranium, Hardy Hibiscus, Hellebore, Heuchera, Hosta, Iris, Leucanthemum, Nepeta, Peony, Penstemon, Primula, Salvia and Scabiosa. I have a small garden and consider myself more a collector than a gardener. Two standout performers for length of bloom time are Gaillardia and Scabiosa.
I might plant some fruit trees and shrubs this weekend! I don't want to get my hopes high but cautiously excited 😅. Great video Brian ❤🤗
Man are you giving me ideas for next year!
Thanks for the info , hope to be growing several different flowers
Thank you for the flower starting inspiration. I want to work some more flowers into my yard, so it's nice to see what you are doing to get some ideas. I used a self-watering seed starting tray similar to the one you show but not from Gardeners Supply. I liked it. But I found that by the second year, the wicking mat was growing algae. I didn't know how to clean it since mine seemed to be a paper product. This may very well be the result of seed starting outside in the sun and exposed to everything blowing around in the air.
First year I'm doing flowers from seed for my tomato companions (well, that and my mother in-law 😂)... nasturtium, marigold, bergamot, morning glory, canterbury bells
Do love your videos and your information. Thank you for all you do and share
This was a fantastic video. Well paced and even though most of us know how to sow seeds, it's always great to see other methods. Those trays are awesome I'm gonna check them out! I wanted to do foxgloves this year too. Gonna have to seed shop... Again 😆
I have Thumbs of Death and have the Knowledge of an Infant so I appreciate this.
@@cathybestlercurtis May I join the club? 😅
@Maria P. I'm not alone? My parents, grandparents and one of my sisters could all GROW!
@Cathy Bestler Curtis So we must be the ones with the recessive gene🤭. I come from a family of farmers🤷🏻♀️
@@cathybestlercurtis I’ve done veg gardens off and on, but until recently, I’ve been a house plant assassin. I’m working on it now, and my fingers are firmly crossed, lol 🤞🏽
Sun flowers, dark burgundy geraniums, coleus
Thanks Brian. 🌷💚🙃
Thanks for sharing your tips and processes for sowing seeds. I actually set up my very first indoor system this year. I have zonal geraniums, marie chabaud dianthus and lisianthus germinated and growing. I also planted tomatoes, peppers, cantaloupe and broccoli...all growing well enough to pot up. I bought a different wicking tray system that I'm not sure works as well as GS...or I'm just not using it quite right. All in all, I'm excited to see how well this all works out. Looking forward to your zinnia segment!
I live in Queensland, Australia 🇦🇺 and we are in Autumn at the moment... I have planted Sweet Pea seeds for the first time ever and they are starting to sprout now.......really looking forward to their beautiful flowers 🌺💐🌺 I am bad for over watering seeds so those self watering seed trays might be just the ticket.
Hi Brian, I am growing zinnias and nasturtium, and dahlias and sweet peas and stock.
Yarrow, echinacea, Monarda, calendula, poppies, bachelor button, alyssum, nasturtium, marigold, sunflower. Zone 7a.
Zinnias, dianthus, cosmos, marigold, echinacea, nasturtium, calendula, chamomile, Jasmine from 2 years ago, muns from last year and lavender
I've heard from other gardeners or you tubers that they soak there potting mix in boiling water to minimize gnats and diseases., but i havent heard of bleach. so I started doing that but I still got gnats anyway. Darn It! I got some bits so I'll see how that works. Nancy from nebraska
Bergamot, nasturtium, sweet pea, lavender so far
Hey Brian...im growing Shasta Daisy, and silvia here in TX
Zinnias are the best. I grow them from seed for long stem cutting.
Alicebjack@ I struggle with them. They grow slow and leggy. I live in South Florida, growing zone 10, and have very sandy (alkaline) soil. What could I do? Any help would be greatly appreciated by me and the butterflies 🦋 ☺️
Germinating: Sunflowers, hollyhock, marigolds, borage, echinacea, and lupine. Lavender if it makes it. I have some iris seeds I may germinate, though my yard is full of irises.
I always grow nasturtiums and marigolds to keep the pests away
I'm growing foxglove, mullein, hollyhocks, salvia, echinacea, phlox, scabiosa, cosmos, alyssum, penstemon. I think that's it. I have a lot of perennials too like lavender and delphiniums so there's not a lot of space left : )
Wish I watched this before I put my Zinnias seedlings outside yesterday. I put a plastic bottle over them to keep the squirrels away and hopefully keeping warm. It was 37 overnight. Ugh
I will buy marigolds because the seeds from the previous year never sprout for me.
Love flowers of all kinds! Im not able to use heating mats. Don't have the extra money for them. I still grow a lot from seed which not everything does not germinate.
try the top of the fridge
Also top of water heater! If not enough room get a metal dish rack thing from dollar tree and it should go over the pipes coming out of the top of water heater!
Thanks everyone
I'll be growing nasturtium and calendula (seed) and coreopsis (nursery plants).
My OCD heart swoons! Great job of keeping everything clean! Since I have a new garden, I am placing lots of seeds everywhere, the more invasive the better. TwoI rely on is Cosmos and Rose Champion. I gave up on the guara's of the world as they are a hot mess....Have a great weekend!
I have started monarda, two kinds of zinnias, foxglove, salvia, hyssop, cosmos, and lavender. They started well but are kind of stalling out because ( I think) they need potting on and I simply have no room until the weather warms up.
Just planted out some Four O’Clocks (Mirabilis jalapa) seedlings, never tried them but had 100% germination and they seem to be extremely hardy and pest resistant.
Nasturtium, Eccinace , Wildflowers, Roses, Lavender to Sunflowers, Marygold, Zinnia,
One thing I learned. Hollyhocks do not like the deep south. They will get a fungus impossible to remove. They will grow and bloom but get covered in ugly black spots. I will experiment on different flowers this year I finally got lavender to grow from seed. I kind of get over excited when a seedling pops up. Thanx for the video I now have more seeds to buy.🙃🙃
Love your choices of flowers. Beautiful plants. I heard many of your videos it was raining. Doesn’t the song claim that it never rains in California? 😂
7a new zone this year
Alyssum, Calendula, Cosmos, Hollyhock, Milkweed, Rudbekia, Sunflower, Zinnia
Nice fflowers. I buy plants. I got away, from making seedlings. Lpts of work. I always have lots of vegetables, flowers, and fruits. I don't make seedlings anymore.
When I plant my tomato seedlings in May I'm going to add fish heads. Can I use whole sardines as effectively as say a salmon head.
I just sowed some parsley, dill and fennel today and covered them with vermiculite, I'll be finding little glints of it shining on my carpet for weeks, it doesn't matter how careful you are... there willl be vermiculite somewhere, I promise.
Parsley does best if you put the seed trays in a ziploc bag and put them in the freezer for a day or two. I usually get 100% germination with parsley that way.
Oops, forgot. I also left the whole thing on my heat mat and it did great. Seems like the heat mat kept the constant water reservoir warm therefore warming the soul as it is drawn up
Hi Brian, I ordered those double hollyhocks from a well known bulb company and the set came with 5 different colors and only one survived. Next time I will order the single hollyhocks but I am having trouble finding them. Have you tried Delphinium , Daisies or Gladiolus? I planted a bunch of Gladiolus that I love, but in my area( North East) I have to lift them in fall, so this year I am trying a kind that don't need to be lifted or staked. I plant my families " Birth Month" flower in my garden and flowers that have significance to me personally . ( Daughter/ August= Gladiolus- Son/May= Lilly of the Valley- Husband/ Dec.= Amarylis( for house plant)🌺 and me/ Daffodils)
hello friend it took me a while to subscribe to your channel not sure why but i do like your very useful information keep it up my friend
Well thank you and welcome
Wild flowers are blooming in a raised bed, also nasturtiums, sun flowers, ganzia, petunias, rosella, carpacopia, mist flower, red salvia, marigold, chamomile. These are all planted and blooming. Zinnias have not bloomed yet, not my lavender vinca. Overwintered angel trumpet and dark purple vinca. Borage and comfrey both now blooming. Also blooming now are my Dutch iris, freesias and day lilies. Blue hyssop not blooming yet, frog fruit blooming now.
Thank you for this video. New at starting my own seed. Excited about the new seed trays. Can’t wait to try those. QUESTION. Is it ok to have your seed growing station by a window? Blessings ❤️🌺
I have zinnias 2 kinds
Bee balm, so far
Can you grow dalmatian peach digitalis in your area? We're 9b deep south and they are listed as zone 8.
What would you suggest for grubs in the vegetable garden?
Oh I wish I would get the zinnia tips right away because I fear I might mess things up with my seedlings! I have quite short growing season so I sow zinnia seeds two weeks ago. Very good germination rate and they are under grow lights. Is there any specific thing I should look out for? I think the zinnias will get transplanted outside in late May, if they have similar temperature requirements to tomato, pepper and eggplant. I'm a zinnia rookie but I had to order seeds because I saw videos of flowers that attract pollinators and beneficial insects to vegetable garden...I was completely mesmerized of how beautiful varieties there are. I hope that they enjoy my south facing balcony garden...
Biggest 2... don't put them out till nights are in the 60s... also.. they hate getting their leaves wet
@@NextLevelGardening thanks! Sounds like zinnias are the most warm loving (or requiring) garden plants of mine then😌 I’ll happily keep the daily “flower sunbathing routine” with these until needed. I have glassed balcony and it has kept temperature 6 celsius degrees higher than the weather app indicates. Right now I’ve been able to keep salads and herbs there during daytime although it’s still freezing and snowy here.
Delphinium, painted daisy, black-eyed Susan, sunflowers (several kinds), puppy's, lavender, cosmos, echinacea, bee balm, marigolds (my least favorite flower EVER, but it's a good companion) yarrow, sweet alysum. These are all going into the vegetable garden as I work to draw more pollinators.
Alas, I had back surgery 2 weeks ago and won't be able to work in my garden for four more weeks, God willing. Maybe I can direct sow my seeds...I'm in Georgia, so they should be fine.
Has anyone done well growing poppies in SoCal? Brian - what about Laceflower (Dancus), Cress (Lepidium), or Freesia?
Also, Bleeding Hearts or Amaranth?
I want to make a greenhouse of flowers pls tell me more information about flowers seeds thanks
I want to do "Love Lies Bleeding", Tithonia, lots of Zinnias, Marigolds (natch), Snapdragons, Bergamot, Sunflowers, CocksComb, Balloon Flower and more - as much as I have room and time for.
Tithonia are butterfly magnets! Especially monarch. Love them.
@@user-mc3tp5sd2z Yup! I've raised Monarch caterpillars for years.
You said you expect 2 weeks until germination under the domes, but you only mist/water them this one time until they’re ready for the self-watering tray? Thanks for clarifying!
Usually they're fine. Keep an eye on them though
Floxglove, Poppies, Canterbury Bells, Cosmo, bachelor buttons, malva, Asters, cupid's dart, Columbine, amaranth. But I am sowing outside.
I wonder on the pelleted seeds if maybe because they pellet them with clay the clay draws moisture out of the seeds so they don’t last as long? 🌷💚🙃
Possible
The link isn’t working for the self watering seed trays. Could you share it again please?
Fixed... you may have to refresh the page though.
I decided to start a cut flower garden this year so I’m planting several flowers. I’m testing out the winter sowing method using milk jugs. Zone 3 can be challenging but if you have any suggestions on what I should try growing, please message me. I am growing, Foxglove, Lupins (3 varieties), sunflowers (5 varieties), Echinacea, snapdragons (3 varieties) , Liatris, daisies, Zinnias (4 varieties), Batchelor Buttons, Yarrow, Salvia, Easter Eggs, Baby’s Breath, cosmos, petunias (8 varieties), strawflowers, geraniums, delphiniums, hollyhocks (2 varieties), poppies, morning glories (2 varieties), sweet peas (2 varieties) marigolds, calla lilies, pumpkin on a stick, ground cherries, striped corn, painted dessert, twinkle mix, phlox, and Alyssum.
Salvia, Bee Balms, Hyssops, Milkweed, Mints, Lavenders, Petunias, Mums. Whatever. Anything that grows. Borage, fennel.
A pretty addition to your English garden would be abutilon (flowering maple). The blossoms look like crepe paper.
So far...Foxglove, dianthus, lacy phcelia, yarrow, delphinium, bachelor button, rose campion, agastache , lavender, nicotiana, baptisia, valerian, feverfew, lupine, snapdragon, poppy, chocolate flower, milkweed. Calendula, cardinal flower, columbine
Poppy, marigolds, nasturtium, snapdragons
Hi, Brian-nasturtium, calendula, and marigolds as companion plants, lots of poppies, borage, and other wildflowers, and two sunflowers for the rest of my garden. Quick question: my son gave me strawberry spinach seeds, which are * tiny *!! Any tips on how to plant really minuscule seeds?
Use a toothpick. Get the tip wet and one seed at a time will stick to it
@@NextLevelGardening I was going to use a cotton swab, but a toothpick is a much better idea…huge thanks!
@@NextLevelGardening Worked like a charm!! Big, big thanks 🙏🏽