Last year I grew mostly Zinnia, Cosmos and Sunflowers. For pest control i have the usual marigold, alysum and nasturtium. My favorite perennial are yarrow, clematis, and especially russian sage. This year im considering purchasing a rose bush to try something different.
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Imma grow some of them big ones yessir, then maybe throw in 5 or 6 of of them lil fellers
Yes.
My alyssum is making a tiny comeback after I forgot to cover it in a freeze. I really need to get some zinnia, milkweed, and nasturtium in the ground, and maybe some cosmos. (My beaconsfield violas are still going strong, but I’m sure May and June will take care of that…)
I don’t have my own garden, my mom just lets me use the two beds in her yard that my stepfather made before he passed. So when it’s veg, it’s more or less whatever, but with flowers it’s a bit trickier because she has kinds she likes and kids she doesn’t. But I NEEEEED flowers. I have so much parsley and no butterflies!
Purple hyacinth, zinnias, cat nip, bee balm, mint and still deciding what kind of rose bush
I’m growing chamomile and trying to grow some borage, although I can’t seem to get it to sprout yet
Zinnias, poppies & bachelor buttons in beds. All sorts in pots.
Sunflowers, zinnias, marigolds (for the veggie garden), and dahlias. I’m trying my hand at balsam this year, as well as snapdragons and cosmos. Ive also started 6 new hollyhock plants, and my Nigra hollyhock from last year (a 600+ year old, black bloomed variety) is set to bloom this year! Everything from seed, of course. 🥰🌱
Cosmos, red Salvia, giant sunflowers and reddish/brown regular sunflowers, lathyrus and Indian cres.
I’m usually light on the annuals… My 1st purchase is/are some new day lilies.. and maybe a bluebeard… Now where are you( plants) going……
Helleborus, Hippeastrum striatum and some moth orchids, and my orchids are going to die. Got no idea to save them, SAD.
Dahlia!!
The older I get the more flowers I plant.
This year I’m planning on zinnias, marigolds, poppies, bachelor’s buttons, cosmos, nasturtiums, alyssum, petunias, lobelia and snapdragons from seed. I’m super proud of my snaps this year. I usually have trouble with snapdragons from seed, but this year for some reason they’re all going gangbusters.
I have a bunch of dahlias and gladiolus, too, and a few hollyhocks scattered around. Then there are geraniums and fuchsias and whatever other greenhouse annuals I can get a good deal on or have managed to overwinter. And of course my roses and other perennials.
I legit love your old fence!
I have mostly native perennials and they’re all pretty great. Blunt toothed mountain mint, rattlesnake master, cardinal flowers, false blue indigo, purple coneflower, queen of the prairie, prairie dock, various Liatris, Phlox, spiderwort, Monarda and coreopsis spp., anise hyssop, etc. I also use partridge pea, zinnias, and marigolds as my annuals.
California bluebells, borage, bachelor buttons, love in a mist are all in ground. Still got wildflower mixes (native) bee balm, sunflowers, 4oclocks, poppies, and tons more to plant! I need my garden to come alive!
other than perennials that are all over the property I put in zinnias, cannas, and Dahlias in pots. Lot’s of them.
I’m growing thumbelina zinnia and Eskimo marigold by seed. I’ll also be buying firecracker and bat face plants from the nursery.
Definitely zinnias. They were gorgeous last year, and clematis and lantana
I’m trying out a few flowers along my veggies
Roses, lavender, marigolds, zinnias, and a whole lot of petunias from harvested seeds.
I spent too much money at Florets and, if the squirrels will leave them alone, hopefully Zinnias and Celosia.
Also statice, snap dragons, sunflowers, dahlias, marigolds, daises, and carnations.
I have a mini rose bush, and I’ve just planted creeping thyme and a pollinator wild flower mix. Oh, and I also bought Aster seeds and Liatris bulbs!
Edit to add: lavender! I’ve just realized they’re very winter hardy, apparently, so I’m going to try to plant some outside instead of bringing in the pot and having the poor thing die indoors during the winter.
Everyone seems to be planting zinnias! Which reminds me I have some seeds that I need to sow, is it too late to sow them here in California zone 9b? I’ve never grown zinnias but every time I see them in other people’s garden I get jealous haha
I’ve got a bunch of other flowers growing at the moment! Strawflower (first time for me), snapdragons, nasturtiums, daffodils (on their way out), mystic blue spires salvia, roses, jasmine, calendula, lavender, Mexican daisy/Santa Barbara Daisy, Mexican sage, native sage ‘bees bliss’, and probably much more that I’m forgetting!
Several varieties of zinnias, cosmos, and bachelor buttons; 4 o’clocks, asters, marigolds, and impatiens, which I think I screwed up, and will consider myself lucky if I get 2 or 3 plants. All from seed.
3 minerature rose bushes, day Lillie’s, dark sky petunias, marigolds, Salvia, calibrachoa, Lantana, verbena, amaryllis (should bloom first time ever this year)
Gladiolus, cleomes, nasturtiums, morning glories, then the bird/bee pollinator mix.
Great thread and thanks for letting us all share. In the wildflower garden we have perennials coming back up. Milkweed, fox glove, daisy, coneflowers. I bought wildflower seeds to add to that area with a focus on red and blue/purple flowers.
I got sick of bringing the canna lily bulbs in during the fall and I count on their blooms to help the hummingbirds before they migrate because they bloom late. I thought winter would kill them off but it looks like some of them have survived. To supplement that area of the garden I purchased meadow rue, turtle flowers and toad lilies that should add some flowers into fall.
In the shady areas I added jack in the pulpit, and Virginia blue bells.
For cut flowers I have Dahlia’s. My God are they beautiful and I stopped digging up the rhizomes in the Fall and they still survive as well as all of the Canna lilies grown by the house. I added some yellow and another pinkish variety with chocolate colored leaves.
I moved some of my roses that were competing with the purple coneflowers. The coneflowers were winning. I hope I don’t lose the heirloom rose that I grew from a branch that hung over the side of my property. That is a special rose with the mother plant being over a 100 years old. Since my neighbor has let it get smothered by small trees I felt I had to preserve the plant before it finally succumbs to the shade in his yard.
Very excited to garden this year. Big smile of my face. Later I will probably frown after the deer and skunk do their damage but in my yard only the strong survive.
My favorite plants in the garden are my milkweeds and Joe Pye Weed. The orange milkweeds are very hardy and beautiful, and I give away the extra plants that grow from the seeds they discard. They also bloom twice so they add a nice touch of fall color.
Celosias, the big brain looking ones. My favorite.
That yarrow is beautiful!! 😍 Is it all one color just at various stages of growth?
This is my second season at this property so it’s very exciting!
I’m doing snap dragons(i bought plants) and zinnias (from seed- can I start them indoors? Last year i bought small plants)
Rabbits will eat the zinnias so I spray the little seedlings with repels-all (rotten egg and garlic) and they avoid them for the rest of the summer.
I’m so proud – almost all of my hyacinth came back so now I have white purple pink and blue! Salvia and orange Creamsicle daylillies came back too!
One yarrow came back one didn’t 🙁 I hope it’s the PINK one.
Lamium came back with one tiny little leaf… Bummer.
Almost all the hosta and astilbe came back.
I’m making a sedum section on a super sunny corner – I got some wild color varieties with fun names that are escaping me right now. Fireglow is definitely one of them. So cute !
Garden phlox grew 3x the size last year and is flowering right now! I did this to copy my neighbor and sure enough he RIPPED HIS OUT a week ago 🥲🥲🥲
So happy to be back at it!
Oh and pansies galore right now!
Zinnias, bee balm, yarrow, echinacea, asters, marigolds, and viola.
This is my first year trying to grow flowers! I’m doing the common marigolds and nasturtiums for my veggie garden. I also have two rose bushes I got last year that are flowering for the first time! Behind my garden I’m attempting to grow a “rainbow” sunflower garden as I was gifted a variety seed pack of different sunflower types. I also got a packet of native wildflowers to try out.
Hummingbird/butterfly friendly Wildflowers (variety bag), scarlett o’hara morning glories, nasturtiums, fuchsias, begonias, and tried to buy a trumpet vine start from Fred Meyer but it was basically a stick in some dirt wrapped in plastic so I don’t have high hopes for that guy but I stuck him in some dirt to try anyway. Oh and a few different kinds of sunflower.
All natives, for my new pollinator yard!
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