The secret is all in the planning.
If you want a low-maintenance, colorful garden,growing wildflowersis a great idea.
Plan Your Wildflower Planting
Before you get started, youll need to plan out your wildflower garden.
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Decide which wildflowers you want to plant, ideally onesnative to your region.
When mapping out your garden space, group flowers that thrive in similar conditions together.
Also, plant flowers that have similar growing needs together.
Choose a sunny spot because wildflowers need plenty of sunlight.
take a stab at plant them near flowers with similar conditions.
Measure your garden space to calculate how much seed you need for your particular plants.
Then till the soil.
Always mix the seeds with sand so they’re evenly distributed, Sons says.
For smaller gardens, walk over the area and sprinkle the seeds evenly.
For larger wildflower gardens, you’re free to use a seed spreader.
Seeds can be particular about how deeply they are planted, Johnson says.
If you have dry conditions, you may need to water them again at night.
“This needs to be kept up until the seedlings have established.”
It may take two to three years for a meadow of wildflowers to fully establish, Johnson says.
Part of the joy of growing wildflowers from seed is watching natures processes unfold."
Most wildflowers bloom in late spring through frost.
