Flowers to sow in June

Shamelessly stolen from Plants of Distinction..............

JUST SCATTER & SOW

FOR GLORIOUS LATE SUMMER COLOUR 

Even though we’re now into June, there are still some ‘swift to bloom’ annuals that can be direct sown into containers, beds and borders and which will give some lovely colour right through to early Autumn.

We have some beautiful flowers such as Calendula, Cosmos, Eschscholzia, Helianthus, Marigolds, Nasturtium & Nigella which, for the novices amongst us, are so easy to grow. Simply scatter the seeds where you want them to flower and remember to keep the soil moist. Once the seedlings have emerged you may want to ‘thin out’ a bit but there’s nothing difficult about it at all.


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Time to find your odd packets of seed and go forth and scatter.

I read that ^^^ on FB....I think it's too late for most of those? I 'll give cosmos a go tomorrow and report back in Aug.
Helianthus I started a few weeks ago - they are tiny and I'm not hopeful that they will flower before the frosts.

I had an email from them.
Its an excuse for me to find some old flower seeds and scatter them as instructed. Calendula and Nigella seem to grow whenever you sow them!

Yes, I agree with those two and maybe nasturtiums...but I've never got on with plants of distinction ? I had crap service a very long time ago and I have never bought off them since.

I will try cosmos though as you never know!

Funny you should say that about PoD. I bought some of their mangetout a year or so ago and very few germinated. Tried several times but very poor germination.

Similar here and they also subbed my order with crap that I didn't want that I couldn't sow until the following year.... I complained many times and they ignored me and then they gave me some cock and bull stories that lasted over several months.
Really poor service.