Have You Started Your Cool Flower Seeds Yet?

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‪@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm‬ Growing a cut flower garden in zone 8b, Scotland.
Today is the 1st of September and it's time to get those cool flower annual seeds sown for earlier better flowers next year. For me the schools going back after the summer holidays is always my reminder to get started, so 2 weeks ago my first seeds were sown. The best way to work out when to start is 6-8 weeks before your first frosts are due. Sometimes we can get a year of frosts in late September so that is why I start in August. You may be milder than me with first frosts in October/November so seed sowing can be a bit later.
In this video I show you what stage I am up too with this years cool flower sowings and I chat about what happened last year with the freezing weather and my plan to avoid losing my seedlings this winter.
I have lots more information on how I do my cool flower sowings in my previous videos I made about this so please do check them out as well. Here are some links to those.
• Cool Flowers | Cut Flo...
• Cool Flowers | Hardy A...
• Cool Flowers | Autumn ...
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15 июл 2024

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@thegreenwoodelf8014 10 месяцев назад

Brilliant thank you 🙏🏻 🌸🥀💐 Catherine

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching this week 😊 I am glad you enjoyed it.

@jeannet9592 10 месяцев назад

Yes, I’ve started cool flowers recently as well. The background of your property and the surrounding hills is just stunning.

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm 10 месяцев назад

Thank you the hills are so beautiful. We are very lucky to have that view from the garden. I hope you get on well with your seed sowing and seedlings just now x

@jeannet9592 10 месяцев назад

@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm Thank you! I am seeing lots of green in my soil blocks so that is promising.

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm 9 месяцев назад

That is promising, good luck

@flowerfairy1950 10 месяцев назад

Gorgeous 🌻 Gorgeous 🌻 Gorgeous 🌻

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm 10 месяцев назад

Thank you 😊

@aboutthegarden 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing everything you are sowing right now. I have been starting to get some going which is so exciting. Thanks again ❤

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for watching 😊 It is an exciting time getting next years flowers started when things are just starting to slow down a touch in the flower patch outside. Good luck with yours.

@clairegill7891 10 месяцев назад

Great video, thank you 😊🌸

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm 10 месяцев назад

Thank you 😊

@mrsj7977 10 месяцев назад

You make everything look so easy breezy! Makes me think I can grow a whole garden in my conservatory and shed this autumn…. Wish me luck off to get planting today. Xx UK / sept 2nd 2023

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm 10 месяцев назад

Thanks so much for watching 😊 I am glad you enjoyed it. I have had a fair few disasters over the years growing as well as the successes but that’s what I love about gardening, you are always learning something new! Good luck with your seed sowing now and hopefully you will get some fantastic flowers next May!

@neilslorance6786 10 месяцев назад

I'm trying salvia and cornflowers this month and you've also inspired me to try some daucus ✨

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm 10 месяцев назад

That sounds great. I hope you get on well with overwintering them and get lots of great flowers next May.

@newjerseygarden 10 месяцев назад

Hi Catherine, great video as always. I am going to be fall sowing Sweet William, Dara, Orlaya and Nigella. I live in zone 6a in the US so I've learned these can be direct sown now to get them established before our first frost and should come up in the spring. Let's hope it works out! I noticed my green ammi seedlings from last fall did just fine outside and did well this summer, and we are in a colder zone than you are so you could try ammi outside too.

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm 10 месяцев назад

Thanks so much for watching this week 😊 That sounds great what you are going to be direct sowing now. That is interesting about the ammi. I might just try some outside and see if I can get it through. It would be fantastic if I could as overwintered ammi is by far and away better than later sowings.

@prunechat8401 10 месяцев назад

Does anyone know if rudbeckia can be started from seeds at this time of year? So glad that I have found this channel with so much knowledge shared, subscribed but happy to think of all the videos made previously to watch when the weather doesn’t encourage us into the garden!

@jeannet9592 10 месяцев назад

They are a cool flower so yes, I’d start them before fall.

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm 10 месяцев назад

Hello, thanks so much for watching and subscribing. It’s great to have you following along and a really good question too. Yes you can sow rudbeckia now or in late winter. It likes a period of cold stratification to get the seeds germinating so the alternating temperatures with warm days and cool overnight suit the rudbeckia getting started at this time of year. For me it always takes rudbeckia a while to get established so sowing now helps bring them on faster next year with flowers.

@prunechat8401 9 месяцев назад

Many thanks for the helpful responses. Delighted to report that having tried a small number of seeds (I can only accommodate a few plants safely through the winter and have trays of sweet peas growing like triffids at the moment 😂) I have 3 baby rudbeckia. Will leave the seeds undisturbed for a few days to see if any more pop up. Thanks again for the advice ❤

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm 9 месяцев назад

The sweet peas really get going until the cold weather comes and then they start to slow down putting in growth. Glad you have some baby rudbeckia seedlings! First frost with us today so winter feels like it is not far away!

@Tracymw99 10 месяцев назад

I started Mine too early i think.. could this cause any issues?

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm 10 месяцев назад

Hello, thanks for watching. It shouldn’t be a problem as long as they don’t try to flower. If they are just putting on leafy growth and putting down roots that is fine. If you think they are starting to get buds and look like they might flower it might be worth starting some more seed again just now.

@andrewcrabb8407 10 месяцев назад

Are there any seedlings in the greenhouse or outside, that you really think should be protected from mice etc?

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm 10 месяцев назад

Hello, thanks for watching this week. To be honest all of them are susceptible to mice over the winter time. Mice can enter the greenhouse in colder weather and nibble on any seedlings in there and outside. The things that I find most susceptible are my anemone and ranunculus grown from corms or anything on the greenhouse floor, so I tend to have the seedlings on raised staging or in tables in the middle of the floor. They do climb so it’s not going to stop a hungry mouse but helps a little and so does covering with netting. I have seen some growers hanging crates from the greenhouse ceiling and popping their seedlings in there to protect from mice.

@andrewcrabb8407 10 месяцев назад

@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm thanks! I lost a bit last winter, including all of my fritillaria 😡

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm 9 месяцев назад

Oh no I love fritillaria.

@mariebutler6912 10 месяцев назад

Did you sow all of these now?

@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm 10 месяцев назад

Yes all just now but some I will get outside in the beds and some I will overwinter inside the greenhouse. There are quite a few just now but not all will make it which is why I have sowed quite a few. Thanks for watching this week.

@mariebutler6912 10 месяцев назад

@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm can we sow sunflowers now or is it best to wait?