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Growing flowers from seed

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Luckygirl Sun 24-Jun-18 16:01:57

I am just getting into this gardening lark and am thinking of getting a raised cold frame.

Can someone please let me into the secret of the basic principles of growing flowers from seed? When to plant? Light or dark conditions? When to plant out? When they might flower?

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Jaxjacky Sun 22-Feb-26 09:36:42

Reported

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Witzend Sun 22-Feb-26 09:44:34

Last year I had a lot of self sown marigolds (common or garden, not African) springing up - there are still a few flowers out even now!
So for something easy and hardy, I’d certainly recommend scattering some of those seeds in a suitable spot. The bed where mine have flourished gets quite a bit of sun, but does tend to be very dry (not at the moment of course, after all the rain!)

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Llamedos13 Sat 21-Mar-26 12:39:07

I planted cosmos last year and they were just lovely, flowered well into October. Does anyone know if they seed themselves and will come back in the spring or do I have to start over and plant new seeds?Thank you

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Jaxjacky Sat 21-Mar-26 13:40:03

Llamedos13

I planted cosmos last year and they were just lovely, flowered well into October. Does anyone know if they seed themselves and will come back in the spring or do I have to start over and plant new seeds?Thank you

They are annuals, sow them every year - they are great.

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Llamedos13 Sat 21-Mar-26 15:11:06

Off now to buy my seeds💐

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Llamedos13 Thu 11-Jun-26 12:37:43

An update on my post above regarding cosmos. Much to my surprise, I’ve just noticed lots of little cosmos plants have returned so they must have seeded themselves.I was so happy to discover them in amongst some other annuals that were recently planted.

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