I love gardening but gardening doesn’t have to be expensive! Sure, some of the flowers that we plant are expensive but we also do some cheaper ones too!
For example: We purchased 5 packets of wildflower seeds at our home garden center back in early spring. Each packet was only $1.00 and each one had a lot of seeds within it.
One side of our property is wooded and we have been clearing out a bunch of dead trees, dead shrubs, etc. Most of that nastiness occurred over the past 3 years from a lot of storm damage. Anyway, we have spent a LOT of time cleaning up that side of our property and beautifying it as we go along.
While I do have some expensive flower beds…I wanted something that was inexpensive and looked liked it belonged in a wooded area so I went with wildflower seeds.
To plant…we just cleaned up the area and then dug up the top 3″ of the soil. We then sprinkled in and raked in our wildflower seeds. Within 10 days, we saw them starting to sprout up out of the ground and the photo above shows you what they look like 8 weeks later. BEAUTIFUL!!! We now have 5 patches of them on the right side of our property and I couldn’t be happier!
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How lovely! I love wildflowers and am always happy to see them come back, year after year. One wildflower that’s really important to grow is milkweed, which is the only plant that Monarch butterfly caterpillars feed on. Without milkweed, we wouldn’t have those beautiful Monarchs in our world. In addition, the milkweed flowers are food for other butterflies and bees, and I’ve had a few Hummingbird Moths around my little milkweed patch for the last couple of weeks. I’m also very protective of the thistles that grow on the property, because they’re used by the Painted Lady butterflies to lay their eggs, and Goldfinches use the flowers when they nest in late July and August.
Congrats to the winners.
Your flowers look lovely. Wildflower mixes are such a joy to plant and watch grow.
(Beautifying Our Property with Wildflowers) I planted a huge garden bed of wildflowers this past May, they have been doing great and look so pretty too.
I will have to get another pic…they are going nuts out there! I was out there earlier and I swear, they are bigger, more fuller and definitely more colorful than 4 days ago. I love them!
These look so lovely and you make it sound so easy. We have tons of these packages that I just haven’t planted after reading your post I now know how to do it so it works.
Those are beautiful, and what a good idea to just have some inexpensive wildflowers. They really give it a springy garden look. I almost expect to see fairies appear like from a play. The colors and variety really do make you think of spring and sunshine.
Congrats to the winners! Wildflowers are my absolute favorites! I have some in my yard too. One year I made the mistake of using a mixed packet of seeds in one of my beds and there were some flowers there that have spread like crazy! I’m still trying to get yarrow out of my lawn LOL! But I still love them!
Wildflowers are so beautiful I like the variety.