Flower Seeds That Can Be Planted In the Spring
Posted: Sunday, July 08, 2007
by Jeff Dahlberg
Weather is one of the most important entities in ensuring that your plant would flourish well. Spring, which brings rain and moderate temperature, is the most suitable season of all to start realizing your planting ideas. You may want to wait for the ground to defrost as most flowers needs a softer ground to flourish. For annual flower seeds, they need warm weather and spring rain to grow. If you notice that it has not been raining for quite a while in spring, you can start watering your plants to keep them alive. If the condition is extremely dry, you have to add potting soil or peat moss mixture so the flowers could survive in the dry weather.
One of the choices of flowers that you can plant in spring, when the weather is no longer temperamental is the annual flower seeds. Annual flowers come in many varieties and some of them are the more hardy ones. This type of annual can be planted in the early spring as they have a higher rate of success in the cold early spring. If you are one of those enthusiasts who can’t wait to see the flowers grow in your garden, you can plant the flower seeds indoors and later transplant them outdoor when the condition is more forgiving.
As we move on towards the middle of spring, where the weather is lovelier and the frost is long gone, regular annual seeds that require warm temperature can be planted. For hardy annuals you can plant them in the early spring as they have a strong resistance towards cold spring frost. While you plant your hardy annuals, you can simultaneously plant your regular annual flower indoors and later transplant them outdoor when the weather settles. Once you have the regular and hardy annual flowers in your garden, you can see the result of having the prettiest garden as your flower would bloom continuously throughout the season. Besides annual, a lot of other varieties of flower seeds also can be planted in the season of spring as well.
Some of the other flower that needs cold temperature to blossom is perennial flower. The seeds are usually resistant to cold weather and can be planted in natural soil. Therefore they should be planted early in the spring so they could benefit from the cold weather and would flourish by winter, in time to survive the freezing temperatures. If you’re planting these flowers in the warm and mild weather all year long, then you need to refrigerate the seeds before they can be planted. As the perennial flowers can last for three years or more, it is always a personal favorite for the gardeners. When you take good care if these seed you won’t have to replant them every year as it will last for at least three years or more.
The early spring is a good time to plant perennial flower seeds, and most varieties can withstand a frost or two. Perennial flower seeds need to germinate in the cold before they can begin sprouting, making the early spring the ideal environment in most climates. Having early perennials ensures that there will be blooming flowers in the garden earlier than with many other types of flowers. It also gives the plants time to mature in order to survive the winter. Refrigerating perennial flower seeds can accomplish the cold germination if the seeds are bought too late in the spring or if the local climate is not cold enough to accomplish it. Planting perennials in the garden means not having to plant them again each year, as most varieties can live for several years.
If you’re the type who wants to start with a simple flower and one that does not really need TLC (tender, care and loving), you might want to try your hands on wildflowers. Even the name suggested that it’s a very independent type of flower that requires very little maintenance. Its resilient nature is due to the fact because its root can take in easily in the soil. Another big plus to this flower is the cost of buying the seeds are relatively cheaper from other flower seeds. This would be good news for those who is still exploring about your gardening skills and are not very confident in it. And if you succeed in planting them, which I presume you will, you will be surprised at how beautiful these flowers can turn out to be.
However, it does not necessarily means that you should expect the flowers to grow without any intervention. Sometimes you may need to do some tilling of the ground, to get them a better chance at surviving. Apart from that, if you’re staying at a hot or warm climate country, you still have to water these plants regularly. Because of the ease in which they can blossom almost effortlessly, there is no wonder why most countries around the word choose to plant them near highways and roads. This is not only to beautify the scenery and the country itself; wildflower is also a good and established method to prevent erosion from happening. So for those of you who want to try their hand on gardening at home, you might want to start with wildflowers. Happy gardening!
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Jeff is the founder and president of cheapseeds.com, a leading retailer of flower seeds, wild flower seeds, perennial seeds, annual flower seeds and much much more. Apart from offering a huge range of cheap seeds, he is also a foremost expert in gardening such as planting drought tolerant
flower seeds, hanging basket flower seeds and so on.
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