I usually plant a lot of zinnias to attract pollinators to my summer garden, but this year, I planted a wide variety of plants, including black-eyed susan, cosmos, purple coneflower, anise hyssop, lemon balm, bee balm, and mexican sunflower. Even though I read about mexican sunflower which is loved by a lot of pollinators and…
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Effective Way of Starting Perennials from Seed
As previously mentioned, the only flowers I started from seeds were zinnia, vinca, and marigold. They are very easy to grow, and all I needed to do was to simply spread seeds on my raised bed after the last frost date and they grew. This year, I decided to allocate a small portion of our…