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10 annuals we can’t live without

Post author By the3growbags
Post date January 24, 2025
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What a pleasure annual flowers can be! From seed to glorious blooming in one year, they represent one of the miracles of plant growth. If you’re planning what to grow this year, we have 10 ideas for you…… No, I love the simple pot marigolds, with their bright cheery faces and their propensity to spread seeds […]

Tags Ammi, Marigolds, sunflowers, annuals, Pictorial meadow, milk thistle, opium poppies, zinnias, nasturtiums, Nicotiana sylvestris, Tithonia rotundifolia, Cosmos

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Eight different seeds we’ll be sowing this year

Post author By the3growbags
Post date February 12, 2021
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Is there anything so full of promise as ordering and sowing seeds, but what to choose this year? We three sisters will have different approaches. I will want to experiment with a pre-determined ecological outcome in mind, Elaine will go for the dreamily romantic (thank goodness you don’t grow roses from seed or we’d be […]

Tags Sweet-peas, Ammi, Marigolds, Californian Poppies (Eschscholtzia), Veg growing, zinnias, sunflowers, Cosmos, rudbeckia, Evening pollinators, Tobacco plants, Convolvulus Hawk Moth, Evening Primrose, Dark Skies Festival