A Flower Garden Started Entirely From Seed - I'm Spilling The Seeds | The Southern Daisy 

I think this is one of the best videos I’ve seen showcasing garden flowers. I love that you show the seed packet and then the mature plant. I’ve ruled in planting some and ruled out others that would have been a mistake in my garden based on your video. I’d say your challenge to yourself, growing your garden all from seeds you started, was successful! Good job.

The repeating theme in this video is "These grow to 1-2 feet, but these here are 3-4 feet" The takeaway is this gal has magic soil and a magic touch! 😜 I'm subscribing now and hope some of the magic rubs off on me. Fabulous garden!!

I am a Master Gardener. I grow thousands of zinnias every year. My Grandma's favorite. I loved your video.

This was by-far one of the best flower videos I have ever watched!!

I would’ve never thought to go to dollar tree for seeds! This is a great tip for beginner gardeners like myself😅 Thank you!

I never comment stuff like this but just wanted to say that your personality is absolutely joyful and amazing. I could watch you teach me about anything for hours 😂

Hair up in a pony tail up? That’s all i needed to hear! Thank you for the suggestion, those will be my first flowers!!❤

1st time viewer of your channel and this was a great idea to show the seed packets and results! Going to subscribe. I plant a lot of Tithonus seeds as the butterflies love it here in 6a northwest Ohio. A tip for anyone new with this plant is that I try to plant them near a natural stake to tie them to as we usually have a couple extremely windy days in late summer that will take them over….and they continue to grow even if tipped over! The squirrels sometimes enjoy a few leaves, but they grow so big, that’s ok. Saving the seeds is easy, too.😊. Beautiful gardens you have!

Mexican Sunflowers attract Butterflys. You gave yourself a cottage garden vibe. Love the masses together. Thanks for sharing.

If you grow tomatoes, put some Marigolds and Basil at the base of them. Where I did that last year, I didn’t have tomato hornworms! I hate those nasty things! I recommend checking to see which plants/flowers and trees may be invasive before planting. New gardeners may not be aware and what a nightmare they can cause sometimes. Your flowers are pretty!

Coleus roots really easily. I take lots of cuttings in October, and root in water until the following spring.

I have watched this video 20 times and will probably watch it again and again. Love seeing all the flowers, it just calms me. Gets me excited for the flowers I also want to grow. Thank You please make more videos love them all 💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐

I love this video! Seeing the results including the ENTIRE plant is so helpful. Most videos just show the pretty bloom and ignore the rest. I’ve watched this video at least five times. Great content!

So pretty! You can't beat zinnias for summer color! I have one more batch to sow, Aztec and Persian Carpet zinnias and Rubenza cosmos for fall color. The bees love the coleus blooms, but I keep the blooms cut off until September. They will drop seed and you may get some volunteers next spring. I rely on several varieties of coleus for fall color: Inferno, Rustic Orange, Redhead and Henna. I do not try to overwinter the parent plant. I root smaller branches in water and/or dirt later in August or September so I don't have to keep such large plants. I keep them in my garage where the temps have sometimes dipped to 39 (but not often) and they are very happy. Stock does not like hot weather so the way yours looks is typical. I am not pulling my plants out but waiting to see if they will revive in the fall since this is my first time planting. I started snapdragons last fall and they are still going strong. I kept them in pots outside all winter except for the nights when it was single digits, and then I pulled them into my garage. I have been cutting off the seed heads and fertilizing, and am hoping they will last until this fall since I couldn't find any in the garden centers last fall. You need to try the Audray series of gomphrena for much larger flower heads and more branching. Another plant that I wintersowed that is still blooming is scabiosa. The bees love it! I had one Dara plant that overwintered and finally died when it got really hot. I winter sowed some so I would have them for the swallowtail caterpillars: it was their favorite last year, along with dill and parsley. You will not need to reseed the Asian Garden celosia. I had one plant four years ago and still have seedlings every single year. I have Sunday Gold and Celway Terra Cotta celosia which I started from seed last year but they volunterred this year. I absolutely love them!

I too love this video! Not only did you show how you started your seeds, but what the final plant looks like. And not just the flower, but the whole plant. It drives me crazy when I can only see the bloom but don't see the 4ft plant that would be completely inappropriate in a certain space. Thanks sooo much!

I am doing this for the first time this year. I think I'm going to save thousands of dollars by looking at the germination rate of all the perennials and Annuals I started from seeds. I'm excited to see my beds full of flowers.

It's so nice to see people planting native and not so fancy flowers and plants. Great video!

Hi there, awesome video! Thank you for showing them in their full glory because it shows me the possibility if I give them room. If you want to learn more of when it is BEST to plant them, I highly suggest "The gardener's workshop" by Lisa Mason Ziegler. She wrote books named Vegetables Love Flowers and Cool Flowers along with her RU-vid channel and phone app all names The Gardeners Workshop. With the experience you gave yourself of growing you will LEARN HOW to get your bouquet dill to stand and last in the vase, why things you started before showed up THIS year and SO MUCH MORE. I promise you will NOT be disappointed by tuning in. She is a TREASURE TROVE of GREAT USEABLE info. Have a blessed day and week.

I now plant from seed like there's no tomorrow. Cures my winter blahs starting them early on my window sill. Cheers all gardeners!

Love this video. The explanation of every plant, how tall they grow, the package. Awesome video.

I love the tour with the seed packets! You don't have to worry about ever planting the dill, feverfew, calendula, and forget me not again! I absolutely love the coleus. My dill does last well in a vase so maybe give it another try. I've never seen that particular celosia before but it's beautiful Glad I stumbled onto your RU-vid

Coleus root super easy in water. If you got one you love specifically just break off a 4-5 inch stem remove bottom leaves and any flowers and plop into a glass/vase with water. I keep mine on the kitchen sink window sill and in about a week you got roots. I then pot it up for overwintering or plant out in warm weather. I even kept one all winter long in water with changing the water out frequently and by spring it had a huge root ball. LOL

Love this video. I agree completely. Starting the flowers from seed is so satisfying and a ton cheaper. Most are so vigorous you can have a full garden the very first year. I start everything from seed including my veggies. With todays led grow lights it costs next to nothing to run. I end up filling my livingroom with seedlings but im preparing this year to winter sow for next year. That will save a a ton of space. I did dalias last year for the first time and i wished i paid more attention cause i only ended up with a few plants and they were gorgeous. So this year i have a bunch of seedlings. I dont have to plant some stuff cause it self sows like marigolds. I just dig up and move them if i want. I collect hollyhock seeds but this year (still very early for me) i have quite a few starting to come up. Thank you for sharing your garden its just beautiful and definitely has a cottage vibe.

So many if not all would benefit with a pinch when they are young which would help a lot of the flopping

I grow dill for swallowtails 😂

What a gorgeous garden! You have now inspired me to go back by my shed and plant some seeds today. We are expecting rain tomorrow, so this is a perfect opportunity!

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Oh my gosh, I absolutely love your flower garden! This is exactly what I am trying to do with a neglected area at the assisted living where my Mom lives! I have already started winter sowing some black eyed susans, yarrow, and daisies. So thanks SO much for the inspiration for other seeds to winter sow! I'm so excited and hope I can come up with something even half as beautiful as what you have done! And last year was my first year growing coleus and what a nice surprise it turned out to be for me as well! I cut the tops off of them before the frost, rooted them in water and then planted them in pots where they are waiting in my garage for spring! :)

Really love this tour with info and comparisons. Thank you for taking the time to share it. From Wales, UK Jane

Really enjoyed your show of all your seed flowers, and how much you appreciated their beauty……I feel the same way, I love growing flowers!

I just discovered your wonderful channel. I to have Daisy in my name, but somehow I can't grow Daisies either. I love that you used seeds from Dollar Tree store. I bought seeds last year from on line more expensive shops and the seeds I bought from Dollar Tree and Walmart actually worked the best for me in my Zone 6a Massachusetts garden. I guess more expensive isn't always better. I hope you have a lovely day. Happy Planting 😊 🏵🪷🪻🌷🌼🌻

Your Zinnias are the show stopper! Magnificent ❤

Love the video. It’s such a dopamine boost seeing all the beautiful colors of flowers. Awesome yard

Hi, I have had bad luck with Stock too. Thank you for your confirmation! Best, Albert, SF, CA

Best video ever!! Thank you so much for sharing!! I have been looking for a video like this. What an inspiration ❤

Beautiful! I'm from England and always remember the English gardens being this sort of more wild looking and lovely. I'm not a fan of boring rows of one flower type and monocolor that I see here in the US a lot.

Thank you so much for all this information!! Blessings

I think you achieved the cottage garden vibe you were going for. Such vibrant pretty color! In your backyard area do you have things planted inside a fence?

I am in zone 7b, too! Glad I found you. I have been wondering about doing a direct sow of seeds that I 'meant' to plant earlier. I am going for it-even though this is pretty late. We'll see what happens in spring!

Your garden is paradise, you have humming birds!😊

You need to pinch Gomphrena early in season

Try growing stock when it’s still cold outside. It’s usually done by the time the others get going

this is by far my favorite video you've made. It's soooo good. Can't wait to see next years :D Love you tons

the butterflies were all over my Zinnias last year. Can't wait for more

Can I start seedlings in coffee ☕ grounds !!!!????

Thank you for sharing this! This was an amazing video! I will be saving this for all my future reference! It will be watched multiple times!

This is legit the best video I have ever seen to help plant my flower garden. Thank you for the guidance! And thank you for showing me dollar store seeds are legitimate 🎉

Fantastic garden. Incredible that it was all from seed. Good for you! It shows that you don't have to spend a fortune to have a great garden if you grow from seeds. Thank you

Love this video. I enjoyed listening to your reviews on your wonderful garden. Thank you!

Great video! I'm starting a pollinator garden this year and it is so eye opening to see what the flowers will actually look like. Thank you!

Good morning! Well, it's morning here. I just happened upon this video and your channel, and I just love your garden! And your handle, Crazy Daisy, how clever. I was nicknamed Sunflower years ago, which morphed into MammaSunflower...anyhoo. Again, I love your garden, it's very British and just lovely :)

Gorgeous garden! This is the kind of video I look forward to watching

Great video! I watched it twice! I grew the same Stalk flower in fall and it bloomed in late winter/early Spring. They were beautiful and smell really good. You should try again as a cool season flower. I also grew the green mist and am not a fan as a cut flower. The flower sheds everywhere and flowers attracts flies.

Wow beautiful garden! I absolutely solute you for what you’ve grown. Flowers makes me so happy when they bloom. This year I grown zinnias, cosmo, nasturtiums, morning glory, for the first time from direct sow and they are absolutely beautiful. I love all the ones you planted that you gave 2 thumbs up so will have to try to grow some of them next yr. Thanks for your tips!

Great turnout! Wish we could have chatted directly as I have many of the same flowers. We have extreme drought in WI this year. We had crazy Rain in January and it was soooo warm, then we had March weather in April and our last rain up till las Monday was in May. All I have been doing is watering until we finished one garden with irrigation on the 11th last week and it poured on the 12th! Go figure🙄. Should’ve done it sooner, but just found the local parts and I wanted to see it so I could understand what I needed. So, I was observing different growth patterns and zinnias are one that can vary depending on how it’s planted. I have the old fashion mix I save seed from and it is a mix of singles, doubles and the crazy big crowned ones. Last year I planted some by themselves and they got Huge! I found if they are crowded they don’t branch out with thick stems. They don’t do well in sandy soil in direct heat without amending soil and regular water. I was in a hurry this year and just felt in a race to get my flowers planted. I had many new seed and thought I’ll just plant in clumps and divide later. Well, the zinnias look like a chia pet lawn😂😂. I have tons of seed and got a bit crazy. The soil was freshly amended and they look great so far, but afraid they may not be at their best at maturity. They can mildew also. Last year the double pink by itself looked like roses-just wonderful! I’ve had difficulty with cosmos before and they didn’t do well out by yard light and wonder if light all night long messed them up. Yet I threw them in a dirt patch with sunflowers and coreopsis and it was a show indeed. Four o clocks are very nice, but the Japanese Beetles love them like roses. Brown Eyed Susan’s are a bright spot and they show up along with the blanket flower that reseed every year. Thing I don’t like about BESs is they can dry up and mildew and need to pull and they can flop. Many flowers tend to be weak and flop if given abundance of water and crowded. A fine line to make them all happy. The sun and slightly drying out before watering can toughen the stems up. It is very difficult here this year as Everything is heat stressing and impossible to let them go without water as they would fry. I also got dollar store coleus and first time and they are such a Rich color-delighted. New is dahlia from seed and they don’t like the straight sun here and need a lot of water. Calendula is new and love them and they don’t handle heat well. Oh, heck! The whole bunch of native plants and weeds can’t handle it and fried! Why would I expect anything more from new plants 🤪. The lavender is handling it well with a bit of water. Even the Yuccas are dried up and that’s saying something! There were a lot of flops with winter sowing this year. It was just too warm. I’ve decided it doesn’t matter when I start them and later would probably be better because I think some may have germinated too soon and froze or they rotted. Will definitely not use bag method again. I’m starting most garden seeds Much later next year and maybe it would be warm enough I can do it all in the greenhouse and heat a few hours at night. Wayyyy too many problems indoors this year that I’ve never had-gnats and aphids-it was awful. And the drought just was the icing on top because the wildlife is attacking EVERYTHING including hostas they ate to the ground and never Ever touched before.😮. I have to barricade EVERYTHING to the point I can’t hardly enjoy the flowers. They eat day lillies like bon bons and bird netting has to be secure way above or they will knock all the buds off. And that’s only the tip of the iceberg as we have had multiple problems and VOLES I never seen in my life-crimmeny crickets! They ate a bunch of spring bulbs and now trying to figure out if it’s them still rutting things up and eating lettuce or if we still have a coon issue. 😂😂then there is the insects😂😂😂 I almost threw in the towel when we had a freak frost just before Memorial Day and now weather warning-I was devastated!! I had to replant many and luckily it didn’t hit the flats. I gave up writing everything down as I have many new varieties this year. It’s a mess. It was so warm this spring who would have thought about frost when we were in the 90s?! So hence the reason I have swathes of crowded flowers waiting to be separated as I’ve been fighting a war with hose in hand. And let’s not forget to add the days we were stuck inside because of smoke from fires and now CA is smoking.🙄🤯 A couple flowers that are cottage style are tall Phlox and Sweet Williams. I have Tithonia because you said you loved them and now I don’t know if I planted them direct, WS’d or maybe not at all. I haven’t had much time trying to keep the plants watered sometimes twice a day. I always felt like I was forgetting something. So I rely on people like you with great videos so I can try and recognize the leaves in hope to figure this mess out before it gets close to freezing again. We only have approximately 130 days. I seriously have to come up with a system so I can just pull shade fabric in place. I have an idea. Wish I was one to video tape some of my garden dilemmas and so that others may benefit. I just don’t have the time. Thx 4 the tour!

Stocks like cooler weather, mine grew like crazy but would not bloom. Then come fall the ones that survived summer bloomed and were beautiful. After research I learned they are a cool season flower and I had planted at wrong time.

I love your video! Seeing all of these beautiful flowers when they are at maturity helps me so much to know what I want to grow!

What a well done video! I’ve watched what feels like 50 different gardens videos in preparation for a new garden I’m growing and this was hands down the best one! Clear, perfect description, great camera work and I love every one of the flowers you have chosen. I wish I had found this video first and I wouldn’t have had to watch the others 😂

This video was SO helpful!! Thank you for taking the time to do it and show us all of them in bloom! ❤

Awesome video! Your direct sowing, was it all done in the spring?

Same thing is happening to my gomphrena! total floppy mess. I've noticed there are two types of gomphrena: gomphrena globosa and gomphrena haageana. I am only going to grow the gomphrena globosa variety next year since those are more bushier

Absolutely beautiful, but I'm in Alabama Zone 8a, and I am terrified if I planted everything that closely I would have snakes everywhere. I guess having 7 copperheads in my yard just within a couple months last summer has scarred me for life.

Great garden! Where are you located? I’m in Albuquerque NEW Mexico lots of sun and very dry. Also which ones are annual and perennial?

My favourite seeds are lavatera hibiscus, Icelandic poppies, rhoeas poppies, cosmos and corn flowers, super easy to multiply

I was hoping you would state which ones you directly sowed…but probably doesn’t matter because our zones are different. I am in zone 8b and I have some zinnia and larkspur seeds.. the package doesn’t indicate clearly.

Thanks for sharing. I enjoy growing from seeds. It is less expensive.

Did anyone ever tell you, You and Hillary Klug look alike? Growing flowers gets me away from thinking about things I have no control over. When I was a young boy we planted flower seeds in cardboard milk cartons at school. We watched them grow and brought them home for mom's garden.

Gorgeous garden!!! Our back yard was just redone so I bought a whole bunch of seeds and bulbs specifically for our 9b zone. I’m just gonna throw them out and see what happens!

Hi Kim, we’re growing just about the same (seed addict). The anise hyssop will pop up here and there through out your garden. The bees Love it. And stock, in my area (middle Georgia ) is usually a cool weather flower and smells really good. Your garden looks fantastic. I love how the floss flower is mingled with the petunia!

I did not know Coleus had beautiful flowers! great video, and I have found dollar seeds to be excellent as well.

I can't believe you got some seeds from a dollar store! $0.20!! Really Dollar Tree? I'll have to try to find a store near me.

This was a great informative video. 2 questions…. What do you put in your planting beds in early spring to amend the soil. And, how to prevent powdery mildew on the zinnias. I know you have to give them good air circulation, but yours looked so close together.

💚👍 wonderful this is the 2nd time I watched your video I have tons of different plants in my cottage garden collection I've used seeds here in there did well I just bought 8 different packs of seeds 🫰🤞see what happens soon in spring in Rehoboth Beach Delaware zone now 8a

Beautiful beautiful 🥰🥰 I am thinking to just doing sprinkling the seed package I got from the dollar store. I can see the deer 🦌 not giving them a chance to show their glorious colors 😢. Had to fence in my vegetable garden

Can’t wait to get my seeds started…..I usually buy all of my flowers. Nice video…….I see you are in zone 7b. I am in zone 9.

Thank you ! I will watch Your video over and over and over again, I will not get tired of your video I did learn from you a lot .You are the best .🌹

What do you think of growing coleus and marigolds by winter sowing? I’m in 7b-8a North Carolina also!

This was such a wonderful and helpful video!

This video taught me so much. For the first time ever, I’ve purchased seeds to sow indoors as we head into spring here in the Southern Hemisphere. I’m now able to see from your video how to create a balanced look with proportional height ‘tiers’, plus make a mental note to self about staking! Thank you so much! I really enjoyed your tour. 🙏🌷

Great video! I’m dying to have a beautiful flower garden this year, but I don’t have stuff to start seeds indoors. What flowers can be direct sown?

Wonderful, loved your video. What is the name of those pink low growing flowers in the front garden? It's lots of them. I loved how they filled up all the ground space but I didn't get their name?

This was an AMAZING presentation, so helpful and loved your enthusiasm!!

Your flower garden is very beautiful 😍. Thanks for sharing 👍. New subscriber to your channel ☺️.

Zinnias are the best ❤careful with the hyssop, Think it’s part of the mint family can be invasive Just fyi❤

You need to specify your growing season and zone, my guess is Z 7 or 8? Love your effort and results. You may consider starting more perennials in the beds too. Thanks for sharing.

The only flowers I tend to grow from seed are marigolds and nasturtums. I save seeds from other flowers I buy. This year I plan on growing more flowers from seed. Your video is inspiring. Thank you for showing the seed packet first.

Please will you tell me the name of little pink flowers we see at the end of you vidéo under ageratum and hortensias ? Sorry i'm french and my english is a little bad 🙂 Thank you very much .Your garden is Waohh love it ;

2nd time watching this video. I winter sowed lots of perennial flowers & herbs but im struggling with how to plant, how far apart, etc.

Gorgeous! When you plant out your winter sown plants do you space them in the garden according to package spacing or do you plant them out “ hunk of seedlings” method with a bunch all together in a clump?

Loved the tour of your garden. I did a small pollinator garden from seeds I started last year. I had bee balm, scarlet sage, anise hyssop, coreopsis, black eyed Susan’s, blue sage, lambs ear and butterfly weed all started from seeds. I added lantana and a butterfly bush that I purchased. It was in bloom all summer long and filled with hummingbirds, butterflies and bees. They also visited my vegetable garden where I had planted a row of marigolds and another of zinnias. I enjoyed watching all the visitors on the flowers while working in the garden. I will be starting more seeds from some of the ones you showed to add to my pollinator garden this year.

What lovely flower gardens! You have done a great job. What kind of soil do you have in your area? Do you amend it before planting?

Your flowers are beautiful. I'm curious, what do you have in place of a traditional lawn?

After watching this we’re doing this next summer truly inspiring thank you 😊 🙏

I winter sowed forget me nots last season. I was hooked. you can't get enough blue flowers. I was impressed too. Hi from Utah

Dollar tree seeds really! Not too sure about that! I get mine at home depot and have before Walmart, also collect from my own flowers... still there's no guarantee they'll grow or do any good, but I do it every summer anyway , some yrs do better than others.

These are all so beautiful! What are the pink flowers that you have all over in your front yard? They are clearly thriving and such a gorgeous pop of color! 20:33

How was your soil when you planted the seeds ?? You dont get many weeds or you picked them out constantly ??? Thanks

Could you say how long it had been since you planted the seeds? Just wanting to know how long to expect these results! Awesome video

Wow I’m so impressed with your flower garden! Thank you for sharing, you have inspired me as I start my own flower/vegetable garden.

You have done such an amazing job, and I love the vibe and look of your cottage garden! You must live in a place where the temperatures aren’t too hot, and it’s not too dry. I live in Austin Texas, where it’s 100° for about two months out of this summer. I have to water my garden every single morning, and even that isn’t enough. Even my black eyed Susans, Tithonia and zinnias turn brown from the bottom and start browning ands getting crispy all the way up toward the flower heads - usually in July. I’m such an avid gardener, and I’m always sad every year that I can’t achieve a beautiful, moist looking garden like what you have. If you have any tips at all, I sure would appreciate it. I wonder if soaker hoses would be better than sprinklers? Is my ground to hard? Do I need to amend it more? Do I need more mulch? My goodness… It’s just heartbreaking. I’m gonna keep trying, though! I have ordered some of the varieties you’ve got in your garden that I haven’t tried before! Thank you for your beautiful RU-vid channel!