Includes a mix of 25 popular annual flower varieties that will produce a beautiful assortment of flowers suitable for cutting. The mix includes many of the flowers found in floral stores. This annual flower mix will blossom all-year-long creating a bountiful source of flowers.
Scatter this mix of seeds in your garden for the most beautiful assortment of flowers you've ever seen.
Wildflower establishment requires some important steps:
- Site selection/preparation: It's important to address competition from weeds: pull, till, or use organic herbicides. If planting in the spring/summer you can wait for weeds to germinate, control and then plant the wildflower seeds.
- Seeding: You will want to have good seed to soil contact, broadcasting by hand is a good approach on small plot, may want to mix with an inert carrier, sand or other. Raking in and covering with soil 2-3 times seed thickness.
- Watering: During establishment for the first month, can be from rain in spring or supplement with irrigation.
- Timing: The best time to plant is in spring to early summer and even again in late fall.
This mix includes all of the following seed varieties:
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GENUS/SPECIES
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COMMON NAME
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TYPE
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HEIGHT
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COLOR
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Callistephus chinensis
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Aster
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A
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12 to 36
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Blue/Pink/White/Purple
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Calendual officinalis
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Pot Marigold
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A
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12 to 24
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Yellow/Orange/Cream
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Centaurea cyanus
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Bachelor Button, Polka Dot Mix
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A
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12 to 36
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Mix
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Clarkia amoena
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Godetia
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A
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8 to14
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Pink/White
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Clarkia elegans
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Clarkia
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A
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18 to 30
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Pink/Lavender
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Coreopsis tinctoria
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Plains Coreopsis
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A
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12 to 36
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Yellow-Maroon
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Cosmos bipinnatus
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Cosmos, Dwarf Sensation
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A
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36 to 60
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White/Pink/Crimson/Rose
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Cynoglossum firmament
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Chinese Forget Me Not
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A/B
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18 to 24
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Blue
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Delphinium ajacis
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Larkspur
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A
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12 to 36
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White/Pink/Blue/Violet
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Dimorphotheca aurantiaca
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African Daisy
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A
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8 to16
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Orange/Salmon/White
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Eschscholzia californica
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Poppy, Mission Bells
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TP
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12 to 18
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Yellow/Orange
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Gaillardia pulchella
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Annual Gaillardia
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A
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12 to 24
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Yellow-Red
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Gypsophila elegans
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Baby's Breath
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A
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8 to 18
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White
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Helianthus annuus
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Sunflower
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A
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24 to 72
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Yellow
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Helichrysum monstrosum
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Strawflower mixed
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A
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24 to 36
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Yellow/White/Red/Pink
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Iberis umbellata
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Candytuft
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A
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12 to 18
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White/Pink/Violet
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Lavateria trimestris mix
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Tree mallow
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A
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24 to 48
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White/Pink
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Lobularia maritima
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Alyssum, tall Sweet
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TP
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8 to 16
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White
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Oenotheria lamarckiana
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Evening Primrose
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B/P
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24 to 60
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Yellow
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Papaver rhoeas
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Shirley Poppy
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A
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12 to 30
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White/Pink/red
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Phacelia campanularia
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California Bluebells
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A
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8 to 20
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Blue
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Rubeckia hirta
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Black Eyed Susan
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A/B/P
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12 to 36
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Yellow
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Silene armeria
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Catchfly
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A/B
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16 to 22
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Pink
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Tagetes erecta
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Marigold
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A
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12 to 16
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Yellow/Orange/Maroon
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Zinnia elegans
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Zinnia
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A
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12 to 36
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White/Purple/Yellow/Orange.Red
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A-Annual
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75%
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B-Biennial
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18%
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TP-Tender Perennial
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7%
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