Growing Perennials From Seed For Your Cut Flower Garden

[@susanwondergem4014]

Love the upbeat, fast moving pace. Your flowers are beautiful and you are an amazing gardener. Personally I prefer your style.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you so much for the lovely feedback 😊 and watching my channel. I am so glad you enjoyed the video.

[@chriswatts3253]

Lovely to see you back! Been inspired by you to start a cutting bed. Sowed some seed last autumn, and some more now, and will follow your suggestions about successional sowing. Very exciting.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you, it’s great being back and able to get a couple of videos out since the New Year. That is sounding so exciting. It’s great you have got some plants through winter, sown in the autumn That will give you a real head start for flowers in May, early June. That’s brilliant you are going to keep up with the successional sowing too giving you flowers hopefully all the way through the season. It will be great to hear how you get on. Good luck 🌱

[@HenryScott-d7g]

Hi Catherine. Great video….and a smashing project to follow throughout the year.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you, I am going to start a few more perennial seeds off this weekend and then we will be able to follow those ones as well.

[@jeannet9592]

Wonderful to see a video from you!

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you 😊 I am really enjoying being back outside growing flowers for this year again, just learning new ways of doing things with less time but it’s great having the best of both worlds flower growing and a job helping people. I hope you are doing well and happy gardening for this year.

[@jeannet9592]

I’m glad you’re finding ways to streamline your farm work while holding down a job outside the home. Thank you. I am encouraged by things greening up and seeing all of the daffodils cheering up the place.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Yes it’s lovely just starting to see the daffodils coming out here too, and hopefully a bit more sunshine soon as it’s been a very grey winter!

[@lilwilliams7277]

I always look forward to your videos Catherine, thank you. I’m pleased to say the hardy annual seeds I sowed in autumn all germinated. Even though they are in an unheated potting shed and have been frozen a couple of times.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you, I am really glad you are enjoying the videos following along with my flower growing. That’s great you have got some hardy annuals through the winter. So far I have too although the temperature really dipped again yesterday so not quite out of winter yet! I thought in my next video we would have a look at the ones I have got through and what seeds are germinating now in March.

[@susiethomas6032]

Nice to see you back 😊 The seeds you started today, do you leave them in your greenhouse? Do you have heat mats? Do you use grow lights! I don’t have heat mats or grow lights . Looking forward to seeing updates and more videos. How’s your new job going? X

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Hello, great questions! Yes the seeds started today will stay in the greenhouse. The only time I would ever move them is if the temperatures plummeted to several degrees under freezing and then I would take them inside the house until it warmed up. I am hoping it’s going to be mild enough not to have to do that! I do start the seeds on a DIY heated propagator bench we made in Feb and March as too cold here to get things germinating without heat. From April I do not need the heated mat. Putting seed trays on underfloor heating works well, or a sunny warm room in the house. I don’t use grow lights as I don’t have a system set up for that. So I don’t tend to start sowing seeds before Valentine’s Day as there is not enough light. I have made mistakes doing it earlier and seedlings just get far too leggy and weak. So now I hold off for better plants. Next video is going to be catching up with what hardy annuals I got through the winter and what’s germinating now in March. Thanks for asking new job is going well, loving it but just temporary hours at the moment and enjoying being back out growing my flowers too 😊

[@susiethomas6032]

Thank you for getting back to me 😀 I forgot about doing the trying the cold winter seed starting, mainly because I didn’t understand it and how it all works. Yes some of my seedling are leggy….enthusiast amateur gardener 😊 Have a nice weekend and happy mothers day for tomorrow xx

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

I have a couple of videos on sowing cool flower seeds in Aug/Sept that may help for next year overwintering and one in leggy seedlings. I hope yours are getting on well now there is a bit more daylight hours x

[@mhubertcfi]

I just seeded my perennials in Washington State US. The achillia was by far the quickest to germinate. Already have the ptarmica and common varieties. Adding more this year

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Yes amazingly quick to germinate so a really easy perennial to get started with. Do you have any other perennials you like to grow from seed? Thanks for watching 😊