Hardy Annual Flowers to Plant in Fall // Any Climate!

In this video I'll explain how, in just about any climate, you can take advantage of the winter to create colorful flowerbeds in spring... or through the winter in some zones!
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[@sandraoconnor5700]

Putting the names of each plant would be so helpful for us beginner gardeners!! Thanks so much!!

[@twotonenavy]

Love this new addition to your channel!!! My pansies over winter and bloom in Southeastern Michigan, zone 6a! I’ve had blooms on Christmas, poking through snow!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Awesome!

[@saltlifess6226]

There is a foxglove that is a perennial called Digiitalis Grandiflora. It is yellow in color.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

Thanks for this. I've been looking for perennial flowering plants that will repel deer. I already have datura that keeps self-reseeding all over the garden, but it tends to take too long to mature each year.

[@gigihenderson8567]

I have marigolds sprouting right now actually. Threw some dead heads into an unused area during the summer and am now using that area for peas and beans. ❤

[@MichaelRei99]

I learned quite a bit. But now you’ve going to have to write a book about it!!

[@NextLevelGardening]

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[@wingandaprayer7777]

Thank you SO much Brian for doing the flowers/ornamentals Flowers Friday! Can't wait to grow in my knowledge with your help!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thanks for watching! ❤️

[@alexconde8514]

Thanks Brian! This is one video I'll want to watch again and take notes!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Awesome!

[@jamiehopkins630]

Love the concept of also covering ornamentals as well as "food" plants.

[@jamesfrazier4315]

Thanks Brian that helps me a lot.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Great!

[@karenburrell5188]

I wouldn’t miss a episode for anything.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you 😊

[@PaullaWells]

Thank you for all the great information, Brian! As always super informative!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you Paulla!

[@darlenecameron622]

What good info, and a great way to start your new Friday focus. I learned quite a bit! Thank you for Flower Friday ❤

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome 😊

[@hillbillyshadetreefarm5732]

I'm looking forward to your teaching me about flowers and ornamentals. You've taught me so much about growing veggies! - Rhonda

[@thinkingclearly24]

Thank you so much for including info on flowers since I grow veggies and flowers.

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome!

[@msginnny]

I love your new schedule Brian!! I live in zone 10a and can use all of the info on flowers/ornamentals as well as vegetables. This year to make it a little easier on myself I bought a box of wild flower seeds and spread them along the fence line. They're doing well but I would like some special varieties that aren't in the mix. Your video gave me some great ideas!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@ivahihopeful]

I really appreciate this video. I want to go throw tons of seeds everywhere outside tomorrow.

[@NextLevelGardening]

😁

[@stephanieg5195]

Thank you! I think this new format of yours is going to be great!

[@NextLevelGardening]

So glad. Thank you!

[@tericamcginnis5848]

Love it! Today I was out reorganizing my flower containers. Coordinating colors textures bloom season and left room for tucking in annuals! Now I'll go and throw some seeds out. I love this format. Thanks.😎

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome!

[@judymckerrow6720]

Thank you Brian. I wasn’t aware that snap dragons were hardy to zone 5. I may just go and spread some seeds that I hadn’t gotten planted this spring. Zone 6a. 🍁🍂🍁💚🙃

[@NextLevelGardening]

Perfect!

[@peggybuti1896]

Love that you are teaching us about flower!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@theadegroot1691]

Thank you for starting a Flower Friday.

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching!

[@Kat-mf7mt]

I'm sowing Nigella for the first time. Can't wait to see the blooms.

[@TheUltimateAcres]

It is so cool and refreshing to see that grown men don't mind growing ornamental flowers for style and beauty on your property. #Keepupthegreatwork

[@Lauralamontanaro]

Love this Friday idea. It's funny that you think such smells like clove, it smells like bubblegum to me 😄😄 I'm a florist and most flowers are greenhouse grown, so not many have a smell, but stock was always the one that I can still smell pretty nicely.

[@jacquelinebaxter6420]

Man I thoughtbI was done with gardening for a bit now I have do some of these 💐 flowers thk u

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome!

[@jancaligiuri3623]

Thanks for adding flowers to your tutorials! I am in the Midwest, zone 6b. I like to plant pansies in the fall to add some new color, and the last couple winters I have had them overwinter, blooming until very late season then coming back in the spring! The summer heat we get here takes them out though.

[@cindyhewatt3406]

I’m soooo glad you are going to talk about flowers on Fridays!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thanks Cindy!

[@theresapelican9621]

Keep up the videos. Thankful for all you have to offer. I enjoy learning more about all parts of gardening: flowers, tropical, over wintering, seeding. With your influence my vegetable garden has thrived. I have added a variety of crops, pollinator flowers, herbs to attract beneficial insects etc. I hope to start a small tropical garden as I learn from your gifted information. Thank you.

[@NextLevelGardening]

I'm so glad to hear that. Thank you!

[@lindamcmahon8243]

Thank you, Brian, for this Flower Friday! Are you planning on letting us in on how you decide what flowers to plant in which garden? Say, what you are thinking for the English Cottage Garden and how you go about putting that together? Love your channel!

[@alicelaber2068]

I'm in zone 4. My dianthus often come back for several years. My snapdragons are blooming happily in their containers by my door. Our temps have been on the lower 30s!

[@suesweetpea7]

THANK YOU, BRIAN I LOVE FLORWERS AND LOOK FORWARD TO ADDING SOME OF THESE TO MY GARDEN. LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR NEXT VIDEO. GOD BLESS

[@gregwanee2689]

I’ve grown sweet peas the last 2 years. Planted about 40’ on the top of our hill. Also planted 2 other places in our backyard garden. Tons of fragrant flower bouquets for my wife. Ended up harvesting over 2 quarts of seeds to give away and plant this November

[@dwardodwardo643]

Since you mentioned it. My Calendula in Northern California zone 9 bloom all year, all winter. Aparently easily pollinate, produce big hardy seed that germinate readily. This is a remarkably hardy plant that can withstand alot of neglect in the summer heat.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Yes!

[@TheUltimateAcres]

1st of all, I am loving your shirt! Who says #Style is for the cities. Alright, now I'm gonna watch the show. 😁🤙🏿

[@jeffbradford1999]

Helpful info as usual and great shirt!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thanks!

[@Fg4e]

Thanks for this addition! I'm in-between zones 5&6 I seldom do annuals because I love having the flowers come back every year. But this summer I planted Pansy's in a large pot they bloomed like crazy all summer. We just had our 1st frost and they are still going strong! Looking forward to more videos 🙂

[@lindasoaft9303]

Great infix Brian! Thanks , happy gardening🌱

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@katieanderson7163]

THANKS!!! ‘Loved the content and excited for more!!❤

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@gigihenderson8567]

Ooh, if you are talking trees, can you talk about espalier-ing and specifics about maintenance pruning for apples and such?!? That would be great. I know you have a vid on doing the training, but maintenance of them after a few years would be great.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Yes I definitely will!

[@rebeccazody1278]

Loved this topic. Zone 6a here. I have planted out poppies, sweet William, bachelor buttons, sweet pea flowers, snapdragons, Viola, sweet alyssum, calendula, chamomile. I know some are not going to do much, but most have germinated. I love looking at them growing. But after I saw this video, I am going to do some yarrow. I have also been trying propagation of blueberry and blackberry plants. You need to update us on your babies when the appear. Down to 36 degrees tonight. Thx

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome 😊

[@sandraoconnor5700]

Great series and content!! Your channel is so Awesome, so happy for you!!!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@StaceyUncluttering]

I’m so excited about this new series! My zinnias are still going strong in 8a but it’s 87 today so not feeling like fall yet at all.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you 😊

[@tracye1866]

Just the information I've been looking for. Thanks!

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome!

[@LadyofRockmart]

Yay!! I'm so excited for this! Thank you for adding this into the channel. This is my first time really growing flowers and I just started my hardy annuals in Central Florida

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome 😊

[@katylundeen2838]

Thanks Brian! Can you comment on which plants are toxic for pets (i.e. sweet pea, foxglove etc?)

[@melanieallen8980]

I just bought my first foxglove..I love it..thanks4 the info!😊luv this video! looking 4ward to Fridays, but Saturdays in Australia

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@johnlord8337]

Giant amaranth allowing self seeding and you will have maximum seed production, bird seed through winter, and hardiness to spring back with leaves and colorful seed brooms

[@noraalvarado8178]

Love this video Brian. I'm in N.Y zone 6a and I've grown alot of those flowers you talked about using the winter sowed method in milk jugs with great success from milkweed to cone flowers, yarrow since i run out of room under my grow lights. All have bloomed for me the first season. Foxglove has not or Sweet William. So eagerly looking forward to next year and this winter doing more varietys.

[@phoenixr6811]

Love the new format of your channel it show how everything works in a gardening 👩🏾‍🌾

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@stevebarsony7178]

Thanks! I do like the add of other stuff. BTW we are in Fallbrook so we have followed your story. The move was too much like our move from LA 12 yrs ago. We love what you do.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Hey neighbor! Thank you!

[@devon932001]

Great information. I really enjoyed the video.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@brianbarker2670]

Good info that covers many zones. I would be interested in discussion on flower bulbs like gladiolus and tubers like dahlias and how to dig up and store them in winter for northern climates.

[@kabbuterracegarden5591]

Pretty good content... New subscriber ☺️

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thanks! Welcome!

[@BackyardGardenFlo]

Thanks for the flower video

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome!

[@debmcl37]

Thank you so much for this video! I learned so much!

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome 😊

[@lindag4484]

I can vouch for your recommendation for growing yarrow in the North. It's a phenomenal perennial, comes in several colors, and the pollinators love them. I grow the pink, white, and yellow varieties in Zone 5b (Northern New England) and they successfully come back every year, even after sub-zero temps and three feet of snow!

[@lisabishop133]

I live in upstate NY and saw a yarrow a few houses down from. I did know what it was, just it was pretty. I asked a master Gardener and she was surprised it grew here (she knows my area)

[@helenrasmussen3157]

I’m so excited to follow this. I have a blank slate for flowers.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Great!

[@birdhousegarden]

Thank you for talking about sowing outdoors. I haven't tried many of these fearing they wouldn't come up. Giving them a try this year... thanks to your video. :)

[@NextLevelGardening]

That's great!

[@myrnaedmisten599]

Excellent info. 👍🏼

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@ALightAngel]

Just the info I needed. Thank you!

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome!

[@deewinston5651]

Thank you Brian.

[@anapantz]

Love this - great job! Very helpful indeed. 8-)

[@TheRaisedGardner]

Love the shirt and the content.

[@carolholadayjewelry5675]

I enjoyed this and got some good ideas for something new plant now. I especially appreciate that you mention the micro-climate needed for each flower and not only the zones. While my garden is in Zone 10a (Monterey, CA), it is nothing like your garden due to tall trees shading much of it in the winter. I am encouraged to try more of the "partial shade" flowers as companions and for the bees.

[@CynSch123]

Hi, Brian. Love the Flower Friday addition to your channel. I'm in zone 6 and recently put in a flower bed for hummingbirds and pollinators. I mulched the bed using fresh material from a Chip Drop. I loved the idea of sprinkling around some seed from hardy annuals now in the fall. I heard someone say that mulch like this really needs to decompose on the flower bed for at least a year for this practice to work. Is this true? I've done it anyway, but just want to be realistic about my expectations so I'm not too depressed if it doesn't work that well.

[@christiensgarden3325]

Such great information.. Thank you for sharing it

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome!

[@angelalormand719]

I love flowers in my garden. It’s always the last thing to go. I live in SE Texas so I get to enjoy them to late fall/early winter.

[@umiluv]

Love the shirt!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thanks!

[@JennTN411]

Received the lumber for a new 16x20ft greenhouse to be built in the next few days. Can't wait to get organized and have some beautiful fun flowers, even over winter here in 6a in mid-southern Illinois!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Sounds great!

[@nancrist7022]

So,show I was unsubscribed! But I’m here anyway🙏🏻❤️🎶

[@dawnclayberger688]

Thank you so much for all the ideas for fall/winter flowers!

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome!

[@MamaJ808]

Love this new series even if my zone 12b (Oahu, Hawaii) has a non-existent frost date…lol. Still super interesting…thank you!!

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome...and I'm jealous 😁

[@julseabate4173]

awesome thank you Brian!!

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome!

[@hyacinthABC]

There are foxgloves that bloom first year from seed - I got mine from Johnny's.

[@kat6084]

I admit it. I'm lazy with flowers. I plant perennials. Mostly from bulbs cuz they survive. Just planted new bulbs wrapped in chicken wire. I'm in Zone 4b. We had a hard freeze last night. Only icicles grow during the winter here. lol

[@johnlord8337]

don't forget dahlias - tubers dug up in fall, and planted in spring are beautiful sunflower height dish pan flowers - interplanted with sunflowers for total bee pollenation and colors.

[@judyquiason4128]

Thank you, liked it….

[@judyquiason4128]

I Like this topic on flowers can you give us also the flowers that attract butterflies, thank you!

[@carolynclark8312]

Maybe you could add the names of the flowers with zone info to the video description. Thank you so much for this information. Just what I was looking for.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Shoot.. I meant to! Totally forgot. Next time I'll remember!

[@kathleenpalmer845]

Loved the video !!!! Thank you for the information.

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome!

[@camicri4263]

Thanks Brian, great video! I have your book but with the move, I don't know where it is right now and want to plant some brassicas and have no clue which are the companion plants for them. Would you be so kind to tell me? 🤗🤗

[@tgardenchicken1780]

Free form Fridays Hooray!

[@NextLevelGardening]

I like that!

[@tgardenchicken1780]

@@NextLevelGardening Feel free to use it if you wish, no credit needed lol

[@johnwhitton9977]

Oh and yes I do vegies and fruit trees and flowers

[@margieromoser9223]

Hi Brian. I have seen so many of your videos which have helped me a lot as a beginner vegie gardener. There is one thing that I've not heard you mention and that is greenhouses. I have a very small walk-in greenhouse which I basically use for storing my tools and soils. I do also use them for my newly sowed seeds and for other plants that I will repot. I live in Northern California. Do you have any advice for using greenhouses? Thanks.

[@janmyers2715]

Thank you!

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome!

[@alysonbaker939]

Super show. I’ve always been a veggie gal but because of your show, I started to add flowers for pollinators. I’m loving the flowers, not just for the pollinators but for the shear joy of color. I am in west central Minnesota, in zone 3-4, depending on the winter. I have bachelor buttons, marigolds, sunflowers and calendulas that all reseed. I wait in the spring to see who is going to come up where and then transplant from the my garden to where I want the flowers. I collect seed from our zinnias to start inside in the spring. This year, I put in snap dragons and have collected the seeds. I’m wondering if they will reseed. I see in your presentation some new to me flowers for next year’s garden. Thank you.

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome 😊

[@violetword6546]

Loved this! Thanks 🦋

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome 😊

[@missmaziecat5058]

This was great! Thank you!

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome!

[@kristagalassi30]

Any ideas for a flower that hopefully blooms as long as possible, will not grow taller than a bird bath, and most critically thrives in heat and full full full Sun? Like as in marigolds and Shasta daisies shriveled there. And ideally/in a perfect world drought tolerant/heat tolerant/deer resistant & perennial??? It’s a weird spot in the front yard that gets blasted with sun all day long sunrise to sunset but is currently just an eye sore. I’d love ideas if anyone has any suggestions please! Purple is my fav but all colored flowers are on the table lol. Just replaced all the old compacted dirt with fresh compost and looking to beautify the yard 😊 thank you!

[@HealyMeans]

hi 🤗 im new to adding flowers to my vegetable garden, but it looks like i have a lot of options for zone 10a/b. tfs

[@NextLevelGardening]

You definitely do!

[@ellieburke7234]

OK, completely not related to this video (I'm sorry! :) ) but I'd LOVE your opinion. Anthracnose took over my biggest vegetable bed, and I basically threw in the towel on that one for the year. Ised need oil, but not great soil.to begin with, my fault. Knowing it infected all of my plants this year, and that it can stay in the soil for several years, should I let it stay as-is next year and not plant anything? Or thoughts on putting pea gravel down and doing a bunch of raised beds on top? I've been tormenting myself for weeks 😆

[@NextLevelGardening]

If you can… raise beds would be awesome. If not you can remove the top 3rd of the soil and add fresh compost on top do not mix

[@ellieburke7234]

@@NextLevelGardening THANK YOU!!

[@DS-rf7si]

When you say sow outdoors, do you sow them in place? Or sow them in trays? Do you cover them in trays to keep in humidity? Have had no luck with black eye Susan's getting them to germinate. I'm a neighbor of yours in Oceanside. Thanks for sharing your wisdom.

[@NextLevelGardening]

In Oceanside you can start any of these outdoors. I have mine and seed trays with the domes on top. Partial shade is good while we still have hotter weather

[@trudybuchanan6490]

I am in zone 6a and my black eyed susans spread underground. They send out shoots an inch or so under the surface and pop up all over the place - even in my lawn. Every spring I have to dig up new plants that have invaded nearby areas. Maybe you should try starting with transplants.

[@nsdavisart]

YAY! ❤ thanks so much for this

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome!

[@susanriggs8896]

Enjoyed your video! Any information on hollyhocks would be appreciated. I'm in zone 10a. I like to grow cyclamen in a window box on my porch railing during the fall, winter, and early spring. Many of them return the next year. I've never grown them from seed.

[@bryanlindert6277]

geraniums overwinter beautifully if you bring them inside

[@dorothymcgee2217]

I love your videos, but I'll never grow sweet peas again. I did one year, and they took over the following year. They were also next to impossible to get out of my garden and yard.

[@sherrypettyjohn3570]

Do you have any flower recommendations for shady areas? I have an area that gets just a little sun and hostas are the only thing I've been able to grow there. Thanks.

[@CynSch123]

I have a shady spot and have planted Lenten Rose, Coral Bells, Astilbe, and Lungwort as well as some bulbs for spring like Crocus, Daffodils, and Grape Hyacinths

[@markhaynes9442]

Great Ideas, Brian! We live in the high desert of Arizona (Navajo Nation) and we may try to give a couple of these a whirl! WE are in 6b and we have lready surpassed our average frost date (Oct. 4) but the tomatoes are still ripening in the pots! On these flowers, any particular thoughts on watering or is the "finger" check method preferred? Thanks!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Finger method works!

[@markhaynes9442]

Thanks, Brian!@@NextLevelGardening

[@hyacinthABC]

I keep my flower beds mulched year round with dry leaves. Can I still direct seed under the leaves or does it have to be bare ground?

[@thomascook4106]

When you say hearty "to" whatever zone, does that mean from south to North or from North to south? From warm to cold or from cold to warm?

[@NextLevelGardening]

Hardy to zone ___ means that is the coldest zone that plant can take and live through it