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Welcome to Country Garden Seeds! Flower Seeds for your garden, for cut flowers and for wildlife. Do you dream of a beautiful garden full of scented flowers and buzzing with wildlife? Just sow a few packets of seeds for gorgeous blooms to fill your borders quickly, for cut flowers and food for bees and butterflies. Here are some beautiful and easy plants for you to grow.
March is a busy month in the garden and there are lots of easy to grow flower seeds to choose from. You can help your garden wildlife by growing beautiful open-centred blooms. It’s officially Spring on the 20th March and at last things are warming up outdoors. Spring sown flowers often bloom in just 8-10 weeks so it’s the perfect time to choose what you’d love to see in your garden this year. Checkout Seeds to Sow in March for some inspiration and ideas. Wishing you a very Happy and Flower Filled Spring. Thanks for visiting and Happy Gardening. Gillian 🙂

Biennial Flowers Pastel Collection

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Biennial Flowers Pastel Collection

Long strong stems and masses of gorgeous flowers in pastel shades are characteristics of this selection. There are six packets of seeds in this collection. Flowers are the most gorgeous pastel shades of chalky pink, lilac, lemon and cream and with hints of dusky pink. These are top quality plants often grown by flower farmers.

If you are planning to grow early flowers in your garden, for cutting, for a special happy event such as a wedding or anniversary celebration or simply to add colour to a neglected area you can't go wrong with this selection! These biennial varieties have been specially selected to complement each other either growing in your garden or as cut flowers in a bouquet. These are some of the very best flowers for you in the most delicious pastel colours.

Each collection contains these specific varieties:

  • Lunaria annua 'Mixed'
  • Hesperis matronalis 'Mixed
  • Digitalis 'Foxy Mixed'
  • Campanula medium
  • Erysimum 'Mixed'
  • Aquilegia 'Mixed'

These are all brilliant plants for early colour. Following on from spring bulbs this collection of biennials will flower from March until the end of June or even longer. They are very easy to grow and super productive giving you masses of flowers for picking.

Genus Biennial Flowers Pastel Collection
Variety 6 Packets of Seeds: Lunaria annua 'Mixed', Hesperis matronalis 'Mixed', Digitalis 'Foxy Mixed', Campanula medium, Erysimum 'Primrose Dame’ & Aquilegia 'Pastel Mixed'

Plant Type Hardy Biennials
Height & Spread Various
Sow Seeds Sow seeds direct in summer from June onwards. You can also start seeds off indoors then plant out when your young plants are well established.
Plant Out Move plants to their flowering position in September then allow them to grow on throughout autumn and winter.
Conditions Required Like most biennial flowers this collection prefers a sunny spot and will tolerate some dappled shade. Water thoroughly in dry spells, keep picking/deadheading and feed to keep the flowers going.
Flower Production Buckets of blooms in pastel shades produced from March to the end of June or even longer.
Picking Pick early in the morning or in the cool evening and stand flowers in deep water for a few hours before arranging. Cut flowers will last at least 5 days in a vase.
Planting Combinations This Pastel Biennial Collection contains some of the best early flowers that you can grow. You will be amazed at how many flowers are produced. These varieties have been specially selected to complement each other either growing in your garden or as cut flowers in a bouquet. They will grow beautifully with Digitalis 'Apricot' and white biennials such as Daucus & Sweet William.

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