This article explores the benefits and challenges of starting perennial flowers from seed, offering advice on choosing suitable varieties, germination techniques, and acclimating seedlings to outdoor conditions. It highlights the cost savings and variety selection advantages while acknowledging factors like germination time and potential limitations.
It’s when eager gardeners get busy starting their cool-season plants, such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, onions, and leeks for the vegetable garden, and pansies, violas, dusty miller, dianthus, and snapdragons for the flower beds.Growing your own vegetables and flowers from seed offers several advantages: 1.) it’s less expensive than buying plants; 2.) you control the timing of when they’re ready for planting; 3.) you’ll have way more choice of varieties; and 4.
Almost all gardeners acquire their perennials either from garden centers, nurseries, or spring plant sales, or they start with divisions dug up and given to them by neighbors and fellow gardeners. There are, however, a few caveats and limitations when it comes to starting perennials from seed, says Susan Littlefield in a post on the National Gardening Association website.
Also, you might not be able to start some of the best particular varieties of perennials since those are often grown from cuttings or tissue culture. And some perennials don’t start well from seed at all.
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