What is a Hardy Annual? When to Plant Cool Season Annual Flowers for an Early Harvest!
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Date: 2022-08-07
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Wandering
So I made my husband come watch one of your garden tour videos with me, because I love how you do things and I think it's a lot how I'd like to grow flowers. I love how you grow your cut flower -farm- more like a garden with thick borders. I live on. 4 acres. so not huge, but definitely room to work with. But It's also my home and I'd like it to look beautiful as well. So a question I have for you is about support. A lot of flower farmers say you have to use netting for things like snapdragons, bachelors buttons, and others. How do you work around that? Do you find it's not necessary if you have clumps of different heights that are supporting each other? I do remember you saying your Amaranth got knocked over last year. Just looking for any thoughts you have from your experience of growing flowers a little less -farm--like. :-)
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So I made my husband come watch one of your garden tour videos with me, because I love how you do things and I think it's a lot how I'd like to grow flowers. I love how you grow your cut flower -farm- more like a garden with thick borders. I live on. 4 acres. so not huge, but definitely room to work with. But It's also my home and I'd like it to look beautiful as well. So a question I have for you is about support. A lot of flower farmers say you have to use netting for things like snapdragons, bachelors buttons, and others. How do you work around that? Do you find it's not necessary if you have clumps of different heights that are supporting each other? I do remember you saying your Amaranth got knocked over last year. Just looking for any thoughts you have from your experience of growing flowers a little less -farm--like. :-)
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Yu
Hi! I live in zone 8 and tried out the fall planting cool flowers for the first time. One thing I would like to share with y'all is that we had an extremely warm winter this year, and we just had our first frost in January. The temperature drooped from 70F to 25F in one day! The plants that were supposed to be hardy did not take well with the sudden drop of temperature. I lost 1/3 of snapdragon, 1/3 of straw flower, almost all of the Victoria blue sage, which is a perennial in my zone. I am guessing either the seedlings couldn't take the sudden change of weather (just like without harden of period, or maybe the longer than usual grow season had bring the baby seedlings to their -teenager- age, and tricked them to think it was spring already. Any thoughts my fellow gardener friends?
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Hi! I live in zone 8 and tried out the fall planting cool flowers for the first time. One thing I would like to share with y'all is that we had an extremely warm winter this year, and we just had our first frost in January. The temperature drooped from 70F to 25F in one day! The plants that were supposed to be hardy did not take well with the sudden drop of temperature. I lost 1/3 of snapdragon, 1/3 of straw flower, almost all of the Victoria blue sage, which is a perennial in my zone. I am guessing either the seedlings couldn't take the sudden change of weather (just like without harden of period, or maybe the longer than usual grow season had bring the baby seedlings to their -teenager- age, and tricked them to think it was spring already. Any thoughts my fellow gardener friends?
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Clayton
I was looking in my garden the other day and I identified a sunflower seedling! I planted some sunflower seeds from my sunflower in October to make it think it self seeded. I planted 20 and so far I saw 3 come up! I-m in Connecticut and we may get a frost tonight so I covered the seedlings with a cloth. I was surprised that no animal found it and it came back on its own. I-m ahead of the game and it still isn-t time to direct sow yet. Maybe in a week. I took your advice on starting dahlias early indoors and they look like they-re doing well. There-s green leaves on them and the stem is red. They-re are dinner plate dahlias. More shoots are coming up. Wish me luck. Thanks for the tips!
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I was looking in my garden the other day and I identified a sunflower seedling! I planted some sunflower seeds from my sunflower in October to make it think it self seeded. I planted 20 and so far I saw 3 come up! I-m in Connecticut and we may get a frost tonight so I covered the seedlings with a cloth. I was surprised that no animal found it and it came back on its own. I-m ahead of the game and it still isn-t time to direct sow yet. Maybe in a week. I took your advice on starting dahlias early indoors and they look like they-re doing well. There-s green leaves on them and the stem is red. They-re are dinner plate dahlias. More shoots are coming up. Wish me luck. Thanks for the tips!
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Andrea
Thank you so much for all you information i am so happy with it. I had a lot hardy annual seeds and i think it is so wordy to sow it now if you see the difference. I also bought to book you suggested of Cool flowers. So happy with your advice. And i think it is wonderful you showed the difference. I haven't seen that anywhere yet and that is so good to see. so again thank you so much: ) I love your video's.
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Thank you so much for all you information i am so happy with it. I had a lot hardy annual seeds and i think it is so wordy to sow it now if you see the difference. I also bought to book you suggested of Cool flowers. So happy with your advice. And i think it is wonderful you showed the difference. I haven't seen that anywhere yet and that is so good to see. so again thank you so much: ) I love your video's.
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marty
Do you harden off to cold the same way you harden off for full sun? I have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that you can take a seedling raised indoors and put it out for an hour in 30 degree temps and it won't die. I knew some annual seeds were hardy as certain plants always comes back the next spring, but those seedlings are used to the cold as they have germinated in the fluctuating temps.
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Do you harden off to cold the same way you harden off for full sun? I have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that you can take a seedling raised indoors and put it out for an hour in 30 degree temps and it won't die. I knew some annual seeds were hardy as certain plants always comes back the next spring, but those seedlings are used to the cold as they have germinated in the fluctuating temps.
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Joyce
Thanks, lots of good information. I am in zone 6b here in the Denver area and found that many fall planted flowers really do seem more hardy. Since you sell your flowers, can you do a video about how to figure out how to price your flowers? I know it may vary by region but if any of us plan to sell our flowers, it would help to learn how you figured it out. Thanks again.
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Thanks, lots of good information. I am in zone 6b here in the Denver area and found that many fall planted flowers really do seem more hardy. Since you sell your flowers, can you do a video about how to figure out how to price your flowers? I know it may vary by region but if any of us plan to sell our flowers, it would help to learn how you figured it out. Thanks again.
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handmade
Hi Danielle, you and your garden are a true joy to watch! I never thought about planting hardy annuals in the fall, but it makes sense in my zone! Planting things in spring are a real struggle here in 8a, where temperatures routinely reach the 100s and there isn-t a lot of rain at all. As a side note, do you remember where you bought your coat? It-s so cute on you!
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Hi Danielle, you and your garden are a true joy to watch! I never thought about planting hardy annuals in the fall, but it makes sense in my zone! Planting things in spring are a real struggle here in 8a, where temperatures routinely reach the 100s and there isn-t a lot of rain at all. As a side note, do you remember where you bought your coat? It-s so cute on you!
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Dick
Do you put foxgloves and other toxic flowers in bouquets for sale? Do you add any warning? Personally I'd prefer not causing alarm to people who don't understand that a large percentage of flowers are poisonous and who might overreact. If we didn't use poisonous flowers there would be so many not available to us. How do you handle this?
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Do you put foxgloves and other toxic flowers in bouquets for sale? Do you add any warning? Personally I'd prefer not causing alarm to people who don't understand that a large percentage of flowers are poisonous and who might overreact. If we didn't use poisonous flowers there would be so many not available to us. How do you handle this?
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Patricia
Danielle, I love your videos so much! Every one I've watched has been helpful, very clear and totally sincere. I'm a second year cut flower grower in Worcester, MA, also 6B! My question is, do you refrain from cutting some of these hardy annuals so they drop their seeds? Or do you find that nature just does it's thing, regardless?
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Danielle, I love your videos so much! Every one I've watched has been helpful, very clear and totally sincere. I'm a second year cut flower grower in Worcester, MA, also 6B! My question is, do you refrain from cutting some of these hardy annuals so they drop their seeds? Or do you find that nature just does it's thing, regardless?
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Creatively,
You're the only one that explained it to where it really made sense to me! Haha! I've always been scared to plant seeds in the fall, scared that they're just going to die! But with you saying how the previous plant of a Hardy annual drops ots seeds in the fall, and the new baby plant starts growing that fall before winter.
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You're the only one that explained it to where it really made sense to me! Haha! I've always been scared to plant seeds in the fall, scared that they're just going to die! But with you saying how the previous plant of a Hardy annual drops ots seeds in the fall, and the new baby plant starts growing that fall before winter.
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Sharon
About how many of each plant do you start inside? For example zinnias or snapdragons or any other cut flowers? I'm just not sure where to start since this is my first year. I have an 18 x 30 area set aside for flowers but I will also be sowing perennials in little areas around that and around my yard and vegetable garden
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About how many of each plant do you start inside? For example zinnias or snapdragons or any other cut flowers? I'm just not sure where to start since this is my first year. I have an 18 x 30 area set aside for flowers but I will also be sowing perennials in little areas around that and around my yard and vegetable garden
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Themesmith
So happy I found this video. After reading a couple of books on Cold Hardy flowers I was still a tad confused and afraid to try it. I live in the same growing zone 6b and seeing the results you are having and the way you have explained the process has given me more confidence to try. Thank you for all that you do.
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So happy I found this video. After reading a couple of books on Cold Hardy flowers I was still a tad confused and afraid to try it. I live in the same growing zone 6b and seeing the results you are having and the way you have explained the process has given me more confidence to try. Thank you for all that you do.
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Karie
This is my first season starting different varieties of hardy annuals. I started them back in February. I am wondering when I should plant them outside? I garden in zone 5b. We have had beautiful weather for March, but I am sure we will get another frost. So I am just wondering when I should plant my seedlings out?
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This is my first season starting different varieties of hardy annuals. I started them back in February. I am wondering when I should plant them outside? I garden in zone 5b. We have had beautiful weather for March, but I am sure we will get another frost. So I am just wondering when I should plant my seedlings out?
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Antoinette
I am watching your video again. love this info I-m gonna give this method a try. I garden in zone 6. When you spring plant and take your seedlings out do you protect them by covering them? I think you said bachelors buttons mid March. we still have frost here. Thanks and please keep making videos.
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I am watching your video again. love this info I-m gonna give this method a try. I garden in zone 6. When you spring plant and take your seedlings out do you protect them by covering them? I think you said bachelors buttons mid March. we still have frost here. Thanks and please keep making videos.
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Angie
I zone 8a I did winter sowing Bachelor Bottoms and also direct sowed seeds in Feb. both did great. I am going to experiment with direct sowing other cold hardy annuals next year to not have to worry about winter sowing and seed starting inside
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I zone 8a I did winter sowing Bachelor Bottoms and also direct sowed seeds in Feb. both did great. I am going to experiment with direct sowing other cold hardy annuals next year to not have to worry about winter sowing and seed starting inside
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Gloria
Thank you for the wonderful videos, and I just ordered the book from Amazon. We live in zone 6B in Michigan. Should I let the fallen leaves cover the seeds sowed in fall or remove the leaves? Thanks again.
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Thank you for the wonderful videos, and I just ordered the book from Amazon. We live in zone 6B in Michigan. Should I let the fallen leaves cover the seeds sowed in fall or remove the leaves? Thanks again.
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Creatively,
On those feverfew- is that from just one seed or do you sow several seeds together? Its hard to tell if thats just one plant. I've never grown it and am growing it for the first time this year.
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On those feverfew- is that from just one seed or do you sow several seeds together? Its hard to tell if thats just one plant. I've never grown it and am growing it for the first time this year.
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Garden
Miss D. if you plant orlaya in fall, will it bloom in time to pair with tulip bouquets? What about snapdragons and forget me nots? Will they bloom with tulips if fall planted? Thanks honey! - Linda
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Miss D. if you plant orlaya in fall, will it bloom in time to pair with tulip bouquets? What about snapdragons and forget me nots? Will they bloom with tulips if fall planted? Thanks honey! - Linda
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Antoinette
I don't know if I missed it but I don't see the hardy annual flower list that you m. Would you mentioned. Would you be so kind to attach the list of the flowers that have worked well for you?
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I don't know if I missed it but I don't see the hardy annual flower list that you m. Would you mentioned. Would you be so kind to attach the list of the flowers that have worked well for you?
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handmade
Thank so much for this video! I-m trying cold hardy annuals for the first time this year. I-m in zone 6B/7 here in Canada. I even bought the Cool Flowers book and it-s so helpful too.
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Thank so much for this video! I-m trying cold hardy annuals for the first time this year. I-m in zone 6B/7 here in Canada. I even bought the Cool Flowers book and it-s so helpful too.
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