How to Plant & Grow a Wildflower Garden from Seed

Wildflowers enliven the garden with colorful blooms and swaying textures. They are an essential source of food and shelter for pollinators and wildlife and provide valuable ecosystem services. With a few sound steps to prepare, you can create a flourishing wildflower garden from seed. Explore best practices for growing a wildflower garden with garden expert Katherine Rowe.

Wildflowers bring exceptional blooms and textures to the garden, creating drifts of visual interest and variety for visitors. They introduce the element of surprise season after season and give us a chance to have fun experimenting in informal growing spaces.

Wildflowers buzz with native bees and other pollinators, essential to the production of many fruit and vegetable crops and plants in the surrounding environment. These gardens provide valuable habitat through nectar and pollen resources and nesting sites. They offer protection for hundreds of bee species, moths, butterflies, and other insects.

These flowers also provide essential ecosystem services like stormwater management, carbon storage, and soil-building. They require minimal maintenance and make a low impact on the landscape.

Wildflower areas create the perfect transition space between formal and naturalized garden zones. Their delightful aesthetic appeal, easy care, natural weed suppression, and ability to nourish wildlife make them valuable additions to the garden.