If you’re wanting to add a boost of colour and pollinator food to your garden, now’s the time to do one simple thing that’ll kill two birds with one stone (don’t actually kill any birds, please).
If you think about it, our native plants naturally drop, fling, or air drift their seeds before winter arrives. They don’t do any prep, they simply let nature take its course. The seeds naturally stratify with the cold and wet of winter, readying themselves for the warmth to come. Also, since they are native, they don’t need special attention, and they’ll self seed, perpetuating and expanding your garden once mature.
Here’re two tricks though.
1) lightly scruffle a little soil
over the seeds to hide them from birds. Very lightly, mind you, you don’t want
to smother them, and some need the sunlight.
2) you need to remember that you
sowed those seeds, and where you sowed them. If you don’t, you may very well
weed the sprouts out only to wonder what happened to all of the flowers that
were supposed to grow. I do this every year. It’s my go to move.
We have in stock, a number of native seeds, individual species packs and blends, that are not only beautiful to look at, but are relished (mmm, relish) by the native insect and other animals that live in, or pass through, our gardens. Why not c’mon in and pick up an easy garden?
-D. Veljacic
