What Flowers To Sow in March with
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- What flowers to sow in March? My top picks of seeds I'm sowing that you can too! Because maybe you’re wondering ‘what should I sow this month?’ This month, I ask an epic RUclips gardener who needs very little introduction, @HuwRichards to recommend one seed, that if you sow nothing else, you have to sow this!
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Lilies
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// Timestamps //
0:00 Intro
1:51 Hardy Annuals to Sow in March
5:36 Tubers, Bulbs, and Roots to Plant in March
7:23 One Seed That If You Sow Nothing Else, You Have to Sow This
10:39 Half-Hardy Annuals to Sow in March
13:46 Perennials to Sow in March
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My husband was listening while I was watching today and he said, "you're growing most of those flowers, aren't you?" I love he's paying attention. Love these! 💗
Hahaha! Not only is he paying attention, but you're also growing most of what I've recommended - we're on the same page! Let me know how it all goes!
@@niallgardens I will do! Thanks!
A hug to your husband! I’ll have to do this test on my husband!
@@annal3708 I love when he pays attention to things going on in the garden 💗
Northern Ontario Canada I can't even see the grass yet 🤣🤣🤣 I do have a bunch already started inside though..herbs and flowers ❤️
Wow I can well imagine that you haven't seen the grass yet! 😂 Great that you've got some things going already though!
April and we just got 30cm of snow. ⛄️
What a helpful video. I hope you plan to do this "What to Sow " for every month of the growing season. Thanks! And if that'a your garden in the video, the plants look so healthy and lovely!
The good news is that I have a whole year of them already filmed that you can enjoy PLUS a year of monthly edible seed sowing videos too! Head across to my channel page and they’ll be there for you 😃
@@niallgardens Great, thanks!
Omg! Can’t believe you’ve never grown lupins. They are THE best! Plus you can save their seeds, for next year & you’ll get new colours too.😀
I know! I was slightly ashamed to admit that! 😂 Looking forward to growing them this year!
My Mexican sunflowers grew (in Virginia) endlessly. They produced armloads of flowers and kept the bees happy. They were a big hit with neighbors and provided such lovely color around my vegetable borders.
I’m in the process of binge watching your previous videos on your channel Niall. And, I’m SO glad that I came across your channel. You have a great personality that shows through while filming. Also, you seem to truly enjoy gardening and sharing great information.
Just found your channel, and I love it!!!
Welcome aboard! Thanks!
great video Niall. some great flowers to sow and nice to see Huw on the channel
Glad you enjoyed it Tony! Thanks! I was really chuffed that Huw was willing to be part of this episode! Hope you're keeping well 😃
Wow Niall you like the same flowers as me. I have lupin, marigolds, hollyhock, sweet peas, begonias, petunias, lobelia, allisum, Biden, all planted in seed trays and I'm starting my cosmos ,love in a mist, cornflowers tomorrow hopefully. The colour is amazing. Looking forward to seeing them all flourish. Take care love your videos 🙂. Marion
Ah lovely! We're growing the same things! You'll have a riot of colour in no time! Have a super week!
Good morning, Niall, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸
We are having a week of mid 80°'s daytime and 60's nights. Great for planting. I just uploaded a video on repotting my Amaryllis bulbs. I bought 5 bulbs years ago and now have about 100. Repotting and dividing is the key..
As alway, your video was informative and well presented.
I'm subscribed to Huw, also. Brilliant 👍
Happy Gardening 👩🌾👍
Hi Peggy! Hope you're keeping well. You really are having some perfect planting weather. Great that you're expanding your amarylis numbers! Glad to you enjoyed the video - I was delighted to have Huw on the video. Have a great week!
@@niallgardens PS. Your subs are exploding👍🎉👍
Last year, my Mexican sunflowers grew to at least 10 feet tall! And then they fell over and made this beautiful arch. They're so hardy! They bloomed from spring to late fall. And my cosmos were tall too! They rivaled my sunflowers. Loved the video and thanks for the opportunity to share my flower journey :)
That is awesome! That sounds fantastic! Glad that you enjoyed the video and definitely do keep me updated in the comments with how your flower journey goes - I love hearing from people
You missed out night scented stock, Niall. Heavenly evening scent! For months! 💖💖💖
Next time!
Absolutely love your videos, thank you so much for such well explained and helpful content 🌿🌸🌿
You are so welcome! Delighted that you're enjoying them so much!
This video came at the perfect time! Just about to go to the garden centre! 😍
Have fun! Go treat yourself! 😃
Thanks Niall! Inspiration for getting things started that I have never tried before.
Great to hear! I love putting together interesting lists of things that hopefully inspire people 😃
Great seeing the collaborations with you and Huw, keep ‘em coming!
Thanks very much Carl! Yeah, I was so chuffed that Huw was willing to be part of the episode!
Thanks Niall great selection also just subscribed to @Huw Richards always great to see more gardening ideas
Thanks Chris! Oh yeah definitely watch Huw's channel - he creates top content that is just packed full of info.
Looking forward to planting some of these! I think I have a pack of nigella seeds already. My January planted snap dragons and dahlias are growing great! Thanks Niall and Huw! Sending love from Northumberland xx
That's great that your Jan-sown things are getting on well! Brilliant! Sending your my best wishes from Ireland all the way to Northumberland!
Great video Nile, I’m trying looping for the first time too! Now, one plant worth a mention…… calendula! I grew them for the first time last year and they flowered their little hearts out until October! Not only that, I collected fresh flowers all summer, dried them steeped them in oil and now enjoying lip balms, creams lotions and salves. It’s also known as the poor man’s saffron so they’ve given garden beauty, food enhancing plus health/beauty products too there’s no end to how much these plants give 😁
I'm a massive fan of Calendula - so much so that make sure to watch my April seed sowing video, because I have a feeling that it's going to feature heavily! 😃
Oooo great, I’ll be there for sure! I decided to try and give mine a head start by sowing them in August and over wintering them. It was all going great, they were romping away, I had been hardening them off slowly and they were just ready to go into the poly to get more light….. then I broke my ankle badly in October and couldn’t get outside 🙄 I watched them (and some other crops) all keel over and die 🤦🏼♀️
However, I’m battling through, ankle, braced and have already got mine to 6” and in the poly (Just got to battle the frosts now) 🤞🏼
I’ve had such success with the dried flowers/oils I’m really going for it this year….. chamomile, evening primrose, lavender, echinacea are all in seed trays as we speak so I’m hoping for a great skin care pampering session!
How wonderful you had Huw on your channel & what an amazing flower choice. I’m going to see if I can grow leaks in Central Florida. Your Marigold choice is something I always grow. I just love them. Thank you for another magnificent video!
It's so nice that he joined me in this episode isn't it? I was delighted. Yeah French Marigolds are just great aren't they - I have to admit that I used to hate them, but I've changed my tune!!
Awesome...thanks for the Leek flower idea! I have several wimpy overwintered Leeks that I was considering pulling up...excited to let them flower now!🌞
It's a double-win... less waste and more flowers from those wimpy leeks! Hopefully they'll perform nicely for you!
Just showed ,love in the mist yesterday and got a pot grown blue lupines ,also lupines have amazing foliage, absolutely love your suggestions 💖
That’s great that you’ve sowed that selection - they’re going to be lovely!
Well done Niall, I was about to start sowing and your video got alot of helpful info.
Glad you enjoyed it and got some useful inspiration - thanks so much for watching!
A Great Video as always, thanks Niall. Glad to hear that you have a liking, for 'Hot' 'coloured flowers. I intend to devote a flower bed to just 'Hot' colours. Reds, Oranges, Yellows, maybe with some purple mixed in. I will certainly be growing the Tithonias you mentioned, plus some Dahlias, which you also mentioned.
Great video as always. Love the close ups you do - the Nigella flower was beautiful. I plan sowing lots of the seeds you mention. I have planted gladioli and dahlias (saved from last year) to see if they are viable. At least I feel I’m getting started. My winter sowing are just coming through - simple pleasures. Have a great week.
Thanks so much Honore! Yeah I really work to make my videos as beautiful as possible (I don't always succeed but I try!). That way I hope that people can just enjoy them for inspiration and entertainment as well as for info. That's great you've got some stuff growing already. Have a lovely week!
Fabulous as usual with your cheery enthusiasm and inspiration. Have followed Huw Richards and Liz Zorab for two years now and then through them found you. What a great mix of lovely people helping me along with this new time in my life. I'm going to take a chance at mixing up all my flower seeds and broad-cast them into my new no-dig area and see what happens!!! Thanks again for sharing your time. Best wishes.
Thank you so much! That sounds like a lot of fun - mixing up the seeds and seeing what happens! Yeah I'm very fortunate to know great people like Liz and Huw - I'm biased, but they really are great and kind.
Hey Niall! Awesome video...I am now on the Nigella train as I am winter sowing some now. You and Huw have provided some excellent recommendations! Thank you!😎
You're more than welcome and thanks for the comment. Yeah, I've grown Nigella for years and I never tire of it.
Fantastic recommendations Niall. Spring is in the air. Knew and have collected the leek flowers, they smell divine, someone at the allotments had discarded them on the compost pile so i took them,never knew could soak them. Thanks for another great video and reminder on my last lilies to plant.
Hi Lorraine! Glad you enjoyed it. That's really cool that you knew about using leek flowers, and even better that you got them for free like that, off the compost pile! Have a great week!
@@niallgardens Thanks Niall, enjoy the sunshine. Currently doing a sustainable gardening course, learning so much to add to all you, youtuvers have taught us
Thank you! Spring fever!
You are so welcome!
Oh wow those Leek flowers are gorgeous 🥰 I’m off to get a bunch 🌸🦋🌸
Well... I've just sown some for exactly the same reason! Can't wait to see how they get on!
My two favorite gardeners in the same video, you described Huw very well ‘A really Epic gardener and grower’ he’s so nice, and so easy to listen to , I subscribed years ago and never regretted it, wud love to see the two of you’s eventually doing a video together 🤞here’s hoping 🥬🌷🌾🌻🌿💁🏻
That's so cool! Delighted you liked having both of us in one episode. I'll have a chat to Huw and see if there's something we can come up with in the future! 😃
Lovely orange flowers
They’re awesome aren’t they!
I grow allium bubls too, never thought to just grow leeks for the flowers. Cool idea if I had more room to let them wait hahahah. I dont have room for too many biennials in my yard. I need blooms.
Great list.
It's a very cool idea isn't it! I was so surprised! Yeah I can totally see where you're coming from with that about not having sufficient room. It can be a challenge
merci Niall pour toutes ces idées !
You're welcome! Thank you for the lovely comment - I hope you're keeping well!
I left some leeks in the ground over winter just to see what would happen, what a surprise to hear about those tall gorgeous flowers! I can't wait to see what happens. Thank you for all this information, where I live in the US I am just starting onion and celery, still very early.
Wonderful, that sounds like you're well set up for lovely leek flowers - brilliant! It was such a surprise to me when Huw mentioned it, and I love the idea!
You're right. Huw is great. I found your channel by the last video when you gave advice on his channel. 😉 So i'm lucky to follow you both now.
Last summer i collected lupin seeds at my moms garden. I always loved the lupins when i was a child and i wanted to take a little piece of that warm childhood feeling to my balcony. 😊
That's so cool that you found my channel through him - he's a fantastic guy and I was delighted that he was willing to be on this video. That's such a lovely sentiment about the Lupins from your mom's garden - I hope you have loads of success with them this year and in the future! Have a lovely week! 😃
@@niallgardens 💚
Another lovely video Niall :-)
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks so much Liz! ❤️
Great choice of possibilities. Good information from Huw also. like leeks I have purposely saved old crummy onions and planted them in the garden and let them flower and left everyone confused what kind of flower they were. Another fun one to let flower is rhubarb, yes a few less stalks to eat but to me worth the gigantic stalks of flowers plus incredible draw to pollinators.
Hi Jeffrey! That's cool that you're doing the same with old crummy onions! I have a few Rhubarb plants so I might just give that whirl!!
Thanks great video Niall
You're more than welcome, thanks!
Glad I found your channel 🤩 . Loving it.....
You're welcome! That's so cool that you're enjoying it, thanks!
Tithonias are amazing! I've grown them the past couple of years and they look fabulous in the garden. The bees love them too. This year I'm going to try growing Morning Glories up the stems. 💜
I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we get good, bright, warm enough weather for the Tithonias!
Fab video Niall. For the first time i noticed the lupins came back , which has never happened before. BTW I also bought alot of tubers from B&Q yesterday ~ just couldn't help it. Planting them along with seeds will give me a long March of mindfulness.
Thanks, glad you liked it! Ah yeah I know that feeling well - going into the garden centre or hardware shop and buying way too much! 😂
Hi Niall ! Im glad i found your videos. Love all the flowers you suggested. Lupin are always a disaster. They never make it to the flowering stage as they get eaten away by something everytime. 😢
I had a (grocery shop bought) forgotten leek last year in the shed, no water no nothing, and I got a great surprise when I found it flowerering! I put it in water first, and then planted it in my regular flower garden, and it was FANTASTIC! Lasted a very long time, and even when it stopped flowering it still kept the nice form for a very long time. And indeed, all insects LOVED it!
I'm going to get some for real this year, buying them just for the flowers this time :)
That's so cool to hear your experience of the leek - I'm giving them a go myself this year... not for eating, but for the flowers!
@@niallgardens
Me too, but I've bought seeds this time, also not for eating 😀
I've sown them everywhere I would like the big flower balls to float above the lower existing plants next year. Can't wait! 🥰
Love this, will definitely be sowing some beautiful Cornflowers 😊
Thanks very much! And I’ll be getting my wildflower seeds going soon too! ☺️
Great idea with the leeks!
Glad you liked it! It was great idea wasn't it!!
Gardeners often say that a plant is "good for bees". The problem is: which bees? You see, a bumblebee has a longer tongue and can reach the nectary of some plants (e.g. foxglove) which a honeybee can't. Also plants that have complex double flowers are useless to some bees as there is just too many petals to deal with. They need open single flowers.
You could add carrots to that flower list too. And carrot blooms in the 2nd year are just darling! And even when you think they didn't survive the winter..just water them slowly and they will rehydrate and bloom!
Great idea!! They do have gorgeous flowers don't they!
So gorgeous, love your videos too. Amazing accent. Yum yum
Ohh I have leeks in the garden ( it sure why as I don’t like them 😂) so I will absolutely moving them this March! ❤
Hi! I grew Mexican sunflowers last summer. I loved how they brought so many pollinators to my garden, especially butterflies. The color looked lovely in bouquets. I will say they grew more than I expected, they were over 5 feet tall and they threw a lot of shade on other plants. Which was fine for greens, but not so good for peppers. I definitely plan to grow them again (collected lots of seeds) just will be a little more careful where I put them in. 😁
Oh yeah 5ft tall is plenty big isn't it?! They sound epic though!
I love yarrow also. I have a ring filled with red....called strawberries and cream. Everyone compliments them.
Yeah they sound absolutely fantastic!!
Great video Niall, fruit and veg growers seem to be really embracing the benefits of devoting some space to flowers . Tithonia is wonderful but a real heat lover so don't be too disappointed if yours don't do so well in a typical Irish summer. My advice is plant them out in the sunniest spot you have, give them plenty of room and just pray for good weather!
Absolutely, big time! I've always loved both and I think having the mix is important (and just plain lovely!). It'll be interesting to see how the Tithonia gets on - always worth a try isn't it!
Hi I am. Outside Nottingham and we had very cool frost in January a feb so to I doing seed in kitchen roll and see if growing a put in tray ok
Wonderful video, Niall, but Huw's choice of flower is just perfect! 🤣
(I don't do ornamental alliums at all because there are always a few runts among the leeks - and onions, too)
Thanks Rebekka! Yeah I thought it was a super idea, and like I say in the video, a real surprise! If they work out, I'm totally going across to growing leeks rather than ornamental alliums!!
Lol my daughter went crazy for me. There’s no way I can plant everything this year but I’m trying. I’m in the Deep South in the states and our stores sell all bulbs in march😮. They have to be planted around November so I’ll be getting them ready for this fall planting season. Great video.
So glad to see your snowdrops. I do corncockle bachelor buttons and larkspur...ahhh you call bachelor's button cornflower, dear me forgot the hollyhocks
Yeah the snowdrops are gorgeous aren't they
Nice!!! I will have to give some of these a go I think I have some french marigold seeds :D
Oh great! French marigolds are just so so handy aren't they?
Love In The Mist n Cornflowers can self-seed n you can't get rid of them .
Hi it ms Caroline Barton I have plant foxglove really nice and tall look plus bees lovely them in a out I had pink cream to
Hi Niall - from Midwestern USA (zone 6B).
Quick question: in which hardiness zone are you located? 9A? Maybe pop it in your bio so newbies can understand how your zone compares to theirs.
Love your videos, just binge-watched quite a few! Well done on content and production!
Hi Maree! I'm in Zone 8b/9a approx. Thanks for the suggestion - I'll add it into my info!
Great video...Just a few Qs please. 1. is it too late to sow these now in April? 2. when you say pot and then put them where you want them, do you mean still in the pots?
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Wow I never new that about leeks
Yeah it's a great recommendation isn't it!
What are you planning to sow this March? Leave me a comment and let me know! … and big thanks to Huw for kindly joining me in this video 😃
We are quite lucky in the interior of BC Canada. Lupine line our highways in the summer months.
That must look beautiful - all those colours and form. I'd love to see that
Hey Naill,
Nothing planted here yet…Zone 5A in Canada! Great job and take care!
Sounds like the perfect time to broadly cast poppy seeds! 😉
Oh! I can well imagine that'd be the case! Cold!
Love rudbeckia. My MIL divided some of hers and I have further dotted it around my garden. Awesome winter seed heads too.
I wish I could get on with lupins! I love them because they’re beautiful but they get eaten alive by aphids which doesn’t set me up well for my veggies. 😢
Yeah Rudbeckia are really strong plants to have in the garden aren't they? And I love how varied they are in size. Sorry to hear that the dreaded aphids keep attacking your Lupins - I'll have to see if mine suffer the same fate!
Great list Niall I am adding Honeywort to my list, very disappointed with my black cosmos seeds the germination rate was trash from Rare Seeds but I’m doing lemon cosmos too. Zinnias are my favourite from last year they are so varied. Thank you for sharing as always 🐝 safe 🙏🇺🇦❤️🩹
Yeah I think you'll love the Honeywort / Cerinthe - it's such a stalwart and a top performer. Yeah Zinnias are superb and they may just make an appearance in the future! Have a super week!
Good video
Thanks so much Caroline!
Great video Niall, if you like hot colours have a little peak at Ratibida (Mexican Hat) it's a dainty coneflower that nods around in the breeze. It will be the end of March before I take my dahlias out of storage, far too cold for me here in North West England. I know you are in Ireland (Duh obvious!), but what are your temperatures like for through March?...Steve...😃
Glad you enjoyed it Steve! 😃 I'll check that suggestion out 👍 We have just that bit of extra moderating influence from the atlantic and the coastline so our average max/min temps would be (very approx!) 4-11oC conservatively. We still definitely get frosts, but I find that March works well for starting the tubers under cover.
I just stumbled across your video this morning and wondering how my area that I live in SE Michigan USA zone 6 compared to yours, this morning it is 27 degrees Fahrenheit and will probably only go to 45 degrees Fahrenheit
What's the time frame for growths from seeds to flowers, I planted some in March, they have grown but I am feeling impatient!!!
Here in Pennsylvania a flower I think is good to grow now is verbena bornariensis. It is like queen ans lace, but with small purple flowers and are great for butterflies and bees. They need cold stratification so plant them outside in milk jugs or cups.
I totally agree because I love Verbena Bonariensis too! Actually, I featured it in either my January or February seed sowing video, so you and I are on the same wavelength!!
I realize that as a nearly official Crazy Cat Lady, I'm more sensitive to this issue... but please, when you mention planting lilies, don't forget to give a quick reminder to people who may have them in their gardens that true lilies and day lilies are extremely toxic to cats? The flowers are lovely, but no one should have to get sick or die for you to enjoy them. ;-) Loved the tip about eating allium flowers. Who knew?
Hi go have look at Wilco they got lots of flowers a buds lily to
Oh brill! Thanks!
Love the leeks idea! 😀 I’m loving these collabs too Niall
Thanks Louise! I’m loving making the collabs too - and I’m always so chuffed when people say they’re willing to make a segment for me
Question for Nigella growers!
This is my first year growing them. I’m in 9b California and my days were pretty much 65F/45F, and they were transplanted in this perfect flower growing temp. So why haven’t they grown further? It’s like they’ve stalled but I can’t figure out WHY. They get plenty of light and their soil is rich - maybe the rich soil is the issue? When they were growing inside (basically 65F around the clock) they grew fantastically. To compare this to my sweet peas (both direct sown and potted up sweet peas) they took the transition outside like a champ and never stalled.
Help! What am I doing wrong? 🥺
Hi Melissa! I wonder if they didn't take kindly to the shock of being moved even though your growing conditions are good. I think the best trial would be to sow some more in pots and at the same time, direct sow some into your ground and compare their progress?
@@niallgardens Probably. I did have some direct sown but they’re still super tiny compared to the sweet peas, and my geranium daffodils are almost completely finished. I guess I just assumed the warm temp of the soil would help speed things up. Gah.
Your the first gardener to know blue is blue I hate gardeners world crew call purple flowers BLUE!!!!!!!
What growing zone are you in? What is your last frost date?
Its April and we just got 30cm of snow. :(
I had a cosmos grow 6 ft, but it didn't flower at all. Very odd.
Done nasturtiums over weekend
Fantastic! They’re such great performers aren’t they!
@@niallgardens were excellent last year
Do you plant them in pots as we don’t have a lot of space
100% these flowers will make great container plants for you!
Do you use peat free compost in pots
I sure do! I’ll always opt for a peat-free option because so far I’ve found that they work just fine!
What zone are you in?
Dear Niall
I'm Arash, living in the northern part of Iran, beside the Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests. I've just made a greenhouse and wanna grow houseplants which grow very happily in our climate; but I have a big challenge. Nearly all of the houseplant growers here gather dry undecayed leaves from the forests of the mountainous, mostly oak forests, and shred them to add to the potting soil. The problem is this is not environment-friendly and by the development of the houseplant market, it hurts the forests. On the other hand, tree farming in the plain parts of the region is convenient, and many farmers grow some species of populus tree. But when I ask the local veterans in the field of growing houseplants about replacing forest oak leaves by populus leaves of the tree farms of plain regions, they say that they've learnt from their ancestors to use forest oak leaves and they can't guarantee the populus leaves to have the same positive (as they say) effect on the soil. Now l wanna ask you, as an educated and experienced person, whether what the veterans say is trustworthy or one can use populus leaves. Sorry for lengthening🙏🏻🙏🏻💐💐
Hi Arash! Thanks for the comment, and actually I've just seen that you sent me a lovely email so I'll email you back in response! 😃
Thanks a lot Niall, your work inspires me much, may your life be green🌱🌱🪴🪴
Did lupine need cold period to germinate?
Thankfully not - they can be sown simply in some compost and they should work perfectly for you. What does help is soaking the seeds overnight beforehand 👍
I am a beginner at gardening
I feel like that every day! I get you know way more than you realise
March is not bumper month if you live in REAL north. I live in there and I'm torturing myself with this.
Personally I hate when people tell they live in north ( or northern hemipshere) when they have snow for a week in a year. Yeah, my frost day is 15th of june...
It’s not just about cold, it’s also about light. The UK and Ireland are very, very far north - further than most people realise - but lucky to be protected by the Gulf Stream and so have a temperate climate.
Cosmos are the best!
They really are aren't they!
We don’t have a greenhouse
Oh in that case, hardy annuals are the way to go, and I’ll be covering more of them next month!