Wildflower Seeds and Mixes

Cover the Problem Areas of Your Yard With the Best Wildflower Seeds

Wildflower seeds are an easy and economical way to fill out difficult yard and garden spaces. Wildflowers are a beautiful delight for the eyes, and capable of resowing themselves, making them considerably more easy to care for season after season. Your initial investment on wildflower seeds is likely the only cost you’ll encounter.

You may see wildflowers local to your area when visiting parks, or alongside the roads. Some states in America sow them intentionally, to beautify the roads and to help with soil run off and prevent erosion.

How To Plant Wildflower Seeds

As with any other flower, it’s best if you can ready the place they will inhabit by removing old roots, large rocks and grass. They are the least picky of any type of flower, but you will still have better luck if you can mix compost into the soil, or fertilizer if you don’t have access to compost, and mix the soil well. Loosened and worked soil makes it easier for the flowers to set up strong roots.

Which Type of Wildflower Seeds?

In many garden centers, there are canisters of wildflower seeds, that you’re meant to only sprinkle over the place you want them to grow and then add some dirt and water. In the past few years, wildflower mats have become popular. With those, the seeds are already embedded in them and they don’t require more work than rolling them out where you want your flowers to grow.

There are also wildflower seed mixes to attract particular creatures. Butterfly mixes are always popular; who doesn’t like watching butterflies flit across a garden? By planting a butterfly-friendly garden, you give them food, and a place for caterpillars, and finally, a fairly safe place for them to pupate.

There are also mixes for birds and bats. If your focus is on butterflies, birds that may be attracted to your flowers may make a meal out of caterpillars. Check with your local gardening center for more information on having a butterfly and bee garden.

If you’re nervous about bats, don’t be. They cannot hurt you and their use of echolocation makes it unlikely that they will run into you, even in the pitch of night. They can eat up to 1,200 mosquitoes every hour, making them the natural champions of mosquito control! If you are interested in adding bats to your garden, building a bat box is very easy and there are a lot of guides online. The box gives them a safe place to rest, and to have babies.

Once you’ve chosen a place, prepared it, and purchased your wildflower seeds, it’s time to plant them. If you picked specific varieties of wildflowers, you may want to mix the seeds together for a wilder garden. Fresh seeds should germinate quickly. If you are concerned about birds and animals getting to them before they’ve had time to grow, use a wire mesh that the garden center should have, to put over the bed. It doesn’t restrict the amount of sunlight or water the flowers receive, but it will keep critters out until the plants are established.

As always, water well after planting.

Since your wildflower seeds pack contains seeds from different species, they may germinate and bloom at different times. If you get a good mix, you’ll have blooms and a lovely visual texture to admire through the seasons, until winter. Don’t worry if your flowers don’t all start to sprout at the same time. Keep the soil evenly moist and your beauties will show up.

This season, invest in a mix of colors and variety of wildflower seeds and you’ll feel like you’re in a meadow, without leaving your own yard, and in this fast paced (and sometimes ugly) world, that is fantastic!