Veggie man planning for fluers

[burnie]

Just back from Dobbies half price sale and got a heap of flower seeds, not a thing I've done before.
Old fashioned scented mix sweetpeas
Polka dot mix cornflowers
Sunbright sunflowers for the grandkids
and mesembry... mesemb....Livingston daisies too

[Containergardener]

Good for you burnie , I grew flowers well before I started veg. Nice choices .

[burnie]

I have grown a few flowers in the past, but not many, always had a few Roses and always loved the scent of flowers.

[Containergardener]

Love flowers, cosmos are also really easy and flower late. I grow bugloss for the bees and calendula,
A few do chrysanths on GYO on allotments, snadger is one I think.
Everything's worth trying .

[WPG]

The cornflowers you've bought can be autumn sown for an earlier, stronger 'crop' next year. I just sow mine in drills in late August/early Sept, and they overwinter fine without a fleece. They'll transplant OK next spring (the earlier the better for transplanting, once they get tall they don't like being moved).

[Containergardener]

I grow my cornflowers in pots , my grounds too wet. Works well.

[rary]

The mesembryanthemums are a great flower for children to watch as they open when the Sun shines on them and close when it goes cloudy, so that should keep them occupied for quite a time over your way

[Nannysally99]

I bought quite a few flower seeds this time last year in the seed sales.
Germination was terrible and I ended buying plants.
Without a greenhouse I stood no chance, so good luck.
I must add that the flowers have given us as much pleasure as the veg

[Mr Bones]

I love flowers on the plot and cut ones for the house. We have lots dotted about the lotty, it really brightens the place up and takes it away from being just rows of crops.
This is the path down the middle of the plot

[Containergardener]

Lovely and bright Mr Bones

[burnie]

Because I mostly are growing in raised beds(I miss the Fast Show), there's not much grown in rows, so finding room to copy your excellent garden is a bit tricky MrBones. There are self seeded foxgloves, ox eyed daisies and a few other wild flowers I have introduced popping up all over the place for the pollinators though.

[Jungle Jane]

I love flowers with my fruit & veg it brings in the predatory insects which is helping to control the pests out there. With each veg area I group a flower,like sunflowers & white geraniums with sweetcorn,English marigold with Brussels sprouts,French marigold with tomato,nasturtium near runner beans it's all pest control,wildlife friendly (we had a hedgehog here one night,it might want to live here with all this food around?) bees nest here they must like the fruit,veg & flower pollen. It's nice we can give bees a safe place to live where they don't have to forage around insecticide sprayed crop fields,where they can survive & flowers brighten up the place too