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The Complete Guide to Sowing Poppies & other cottage garden seed



This is the complete guide to sowing spring flowering seed: poppies, larkspur, bachelor buttons, nigella, grains, cilantro & others!

22 Comments

  1. I love the idea of adding Cilantro to the seeded area. I had some Cilantro come up next to my front steps last year — zero idea how that happened — and it was so pretty. I never thought to seed it on purpose into the flower areas

  2. Awesome! It was so nice gardening with your Mom. And thank you for explaining the simplicity of direct-sowing some of these annuals such as larkspur and poppies!

  3. Good morning. I just discovered your videos. I had no idea what I was doing wrong with poppies, larkspur and delphinium. I had just given up on them. Well now I'm going to sprinkle away. LOL.
    Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
    Zone 8 south Mississippi

  4. It’s against my gardening instincts to leave bare soil but I’ll give it a try for the poppies!

  5. Your mother is a joy. Please include her more often. I don't know where up north she's from, but Northern winter's can be brutal. In South Carolina, she can still garden.

  6. You look so much like your mother! As my own mother's twin, I always find that kind of sweet. 😊

  7. I noticed in the video that you were standing by your parent's mailbox, which showed the house number and street name. That gave me a case of the fantods, but then you announced that they were going to your house for Christmas. That gave me the Rolling Stones song, "19th Nervous Breakdown." Gardeners are fine folks, but any hooligan worth their salt now knows what a fine house they live in, where they live, and when they will be away from home. So please, in the future, don't forget to block out any address and refrain from spilling the beans.
    Also, I have my mix of seeds ready to go and will sow them once these storms blow over Birmingham.

  8. Wonderful video and very helpful. I am planning to sow larkspur seed but wasn't sure about timing in zone 7a, Maryland or best method.

  9. Hello! I followed your instructions after black Friday last year here in zone 8b and my poppies, for the first time planting them were amazing thank you! I am wondering if its still okay to plant the seeds in zone 8b in late december? it will still be cold here, but just wanted to check.

  10. Brie sounding like β€œa broken record”most definitely helps me memorize these things as you said, thanks so much for all your teachings!! πŸ‘πŸΌ
    I’ve always appreciated your personality, honesty and sense of humor! Don’t ever change! πŸ‘πŸΌβ˜ΊοΈ

  11. Hi Brie and Mom! I enjoy and have been very enlightened by your videos, so thank you I''m hoping for a successful sowng of poppies this season. Do you offer your seeds for sale?

  12. Love that I can have beautiful flowers in the spring so easily! Thanks so much! Mom must be so proud. How does she like South Carolina?

  13. Wow! Thank you for all of the seed information. I’m looking forward to trying out some of your suggestions. πŸ˜ƒ

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