3 of the Best Self Seeding Flowers at Ella June Gardens

Not everyone wants to have flowers self seed in their gardens. This is primarily true for me as well. Self seeding flowers can give a less organized look. They can plant themselves exactly where you hoped to have a walkway instead of the location you planned for that particular flower.

In the right environment, however, self seeding flowers are going to give you flowers with little labor or effort on your part. In my simple life I call that AMAZING.  I can leave the flowers in place for just a few extra weeks while they set seed then when the conditions are perfect, they will sprout on their own.

The past 2 years I have experimented with several of these kinds of flowers and these are my top 3 that consistently drop seed, sprout and bloom.

1 - Queen Anne's lace or Dara - These sweet girls are prolific. They want to have more lacy lusciousness in the next season's bouquets and one simple stem left to grow old will send out seed and replant an entire patch. The nice thing about QA Lace is that it doesn't seem to stray far from the location of the Mother Plant who gave them life. In my gardens I can expect them to stay within 2'-3'.

2 - Nigella or Love-in-a-Mist - I wish I had more space in my gardens to try all the varieties of these beauties. So far the Albion Green Pods and African Bride have been the most consistent rebloomers. I absolutely love these little flowers. They also stay pretty close to the Mother Plants which is very helpful where I currently have them growing. 

3 - Feverfew - There couldn't be a happier surprise for me to have these reseeding around my garden beds. They do travel. One time I actually found some sprouted 60' from the Mother Plant. This was a surprise for sure! However, the great thing about Feverfew is that it let me transplant them to the location I want them. This does cause me to work a bit, but it is worth it to me to not have to baby the seedlings in my greenhouse for weeks to get them to the right size for transplanting. I have tried allowing several varieties of Feverfew to self seed and all have had similar results.

I am currently on a mission to see if my favorite Foxglove will reseed itself here in my gardens, but until I know how well it does I will certainly be enjoying these easy and delightful flowers.

What about you? Do you have self seeders in your gardens? What flower do you wish would be able to self seed?

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