Wildflower Seed Mix

Need to add some pretty wilderness to your sun garden? Pick up the Wildflower Seed Mix is a fantastic blend of 8 native wildflowers and prairie plants that Pollinators and songbirds adore! Hardy in the heat and cold of USDA planting zones 3 to 9, this Wildflower Seed Mixture will fill your landscape with color from spring until fall!

A 4 oz. seed packet can cover 250-500 square feet!

Everyone now realizes just how important it is to remove turf areas or open spaces to include these vital plants to attract wildlife, birds, and beneficial pollinators to your yard. These native plants have evolved to adapt throughout a significant portion of the US, growing freely in ditches, out-of-the-way areas, and in prairies in the sun!

These seed mixes work well together and perform well to create their own small plant community! Attractive, offer flowering throughout the different times to best attract beneficial insects and birds and be host plants to your yard all growing season long!

This Wildflower Seed Mixture Includes:

1. American Germander (Teucrium canadense) Fragrant scalloped leaves and pretty purple/violet blooms on 1.5 - 3 foot tall stems. Each floret has a prominent lower petal that makes each bloom look like ladies dancing in long purple dresses! This perennial wildflower blooms from June through September.
2. Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) is a hardy perennial that reseeds as well, spreading the joy even more or feeding songbirds. These 2-4 foot tall plant has showy brilliant yellow blooms with a dark brown, fuzzy, raised center. The daisy-like 3-inch flowers may be single or double. An excellent prairie plant that is also a great cut flower! Blooms summer to fall.
3. Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) are Monarch butterfly host plants and pollinator-rich perennials. Growing 2-3 feet tall, the wildly fragrant pinkish-mauve flowers bloom from June through August. These reseed easily and spread by big, ornamental seedpods.
4. Fourpoint Evening Primrose (Oenothera rhombipetala) Fringy pale yellow flowering spikes with ruffled florets, growing 1-3 feet tall. An annual or biennial that freely reseeds and spreads through the garden. The flower spikes bloom from the bottom up for a long flowering display lasting July through September.
5. Purple Poppy Mallow (Callirhoe involucrata) are showy perennials that usually grow less than a foot tall but may spread up to 3 feet wide groundcover. Loves full sun, the magenta single flowers appear May through June.
6. Showy Goldenrod (Solidago speciosa) are showy late blooming perennials, typically 2-3 feet tall when in bloom, but can be taller in areas where they are happy. Yellow flowers are borne in airy terminal clusters that arrive from July through September.
7. Western Wallflower (Erysimum asperum) is a Mustard-family plant that can be a biennial or perennial growing around 1.5 feet tall. These feature yellow flower clusters on terminal clusters throughout the mid to late spring. Re-seeds freely for continued crops from mature flowers.
8. Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) are excellent perennials, typically growing 2-3 feet tall. The flat-topped white flower clusters feed pollinators from June through September. You’ll love the ferny aromatic grayish soft foliage.

There are also rice hulls included to help with the aid in seed distribution when sowing.

Planting and Application:

There is always something blooming with these seed mixtures! They can be scattered in a prepared or existing sunny flower garden or Pollinator borders in the sun. Scatter the seeds among your mixed Perennial gardens and Cottage borders, and are must-haves for the Rock garden, and that patch of wilderness along the back strip of your property where you don't want to mow.

You will create an important buffer strip of deep-rooted plants with long-term savings on maintenance for the area compared to turfgrass. Set apart a portion of your side yard or even reclaim some of your front landscaping from the grass to create a safe space for beneficial insects and pollinators. Simply mow a strip down the middle for a meadow feel, and place a lawn chair at the end to relax and listen to the pollinators hum!

These plants not only handle sun, heat, and cold, but also are wonderful low-moisture need plants once established and are fire-wise landscaping plants that survive occasional drought! Plus you'll enjoy gorgeous wildflower bouquets all spring and summer!

• Mix of 8 Native Wildflowers
• Spring, Summer & Fall Blooming Varieties
• Major Pollen & Nectar Resources For Pollinators
• Easy to Grow Annual, Biennial & Perennial Mix - Self Seeds or Spreads Each Year
• Meadows, Pollinator Gardens, New & Existing Garden Beds & Borders in the Sun

#ProPlantTips for Care:

These wildflowers grow best in full sun in cooler climates and can handle some partial shade in the afternoons of warmer growing zones. Prepare the site by breaking up any soil that is hardpan or compacted. Soak the site well to have the soil primed and not just wet the surface. Scatter the seeds and use a garden rake to lightly work those seeds just under the soil surface.

Then just as if you had planted grass seed, a light sprinkling of some straw will help the surface of the soil from drying out.

Using a misting nozzle on your hose, gently wet the surface of the soil immediately after planting. You may need to moisten the surface once or twice a day at the start if it is sunny and windy where you planted. Maintain even moisture without overwetting the area without allowing the soil to dry out on top. Depending upon the time of year, and the temperature, you should see germination beginning soon after planting.

If you see weeds that have germinated you may need to pluck them out or use a herbicide to spot-treat the perennial weeds.

A light covering of straw at planting just as if you were growing grass seed is an easy to keep the germinating seedlings from drying out and killing them. Keeping them moist is best. You can also use row covers or shade cloth to keep the soil from drying out until the seedlings can germinate. If you are not home to moisten the top of the planted area during the day, you may consider using a row cover, cheesecloth, or other light covering over the area to keep it moist for the first few weeks.

Prune down or mow larger plantings in the spring and leave the trimmings in place along with their seeds that will germinate and further spread the joy! For smaller patches, you can deadhead your plants to encourage new blooms, but leave the last flowers to develop seeds to collect for later or leave them to self-sow on their own. Birds also appreciate these seeds for late-season food sources!

Once established, these planted areas will need little care, and little additional watering or fertilizers or chemicals.

• Full Sun & Partial Shade
• Well-Drained Locations
• Regular Moisture At First - Low Moisture Once Established
• Deadhead Late Fall or Prune Early Spring
• Collect Seeds to Re-Seed & Expand Your Garden

Scatter some native beauty with the pretty Wildflower Seed Mix available now at Nature Hills Nursery! Feel good knowing you are supporting your local ecosystem with plants that know how to grow in your area, feed pollinators and enhance the world around you!