What Flowers to Sow in July | Flowers to Sow in Summer | What Seeds to Sow Now!

What flowers to sow in July? Are you wondering ‘what should I sow this month?’ My top picks of flower seeds to sow now! This month, I ask a really lovely YouTube gardener and allotment grower, Jane Kelly from @JanesGrowingGarden to recommend her one seed, that if you sow nothing else, you have to sow this!

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// Today's Seeds //

Salsify
Carrot
Cornflower
Sweet William
Delphinium
Echinacea
Bellis Perennis

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// Timestamps //

0:00 Intro
0:30 What Flowers to Sow in July
0:56 Sowing Salsify in July for Flowers
2:02 Sowing Carrots in July for Flowers
2:54 What Annuals to Sow in July
4:30 If You Sow Nothing Else, You Have to Sow This!
4:53 Sowing Sweet Williams in July
7:11 Sowing Perennials in July
8:47 Skillshare Promotion
9:51 Sowing Bellis in July / Summer
11:00 It's OK to Buy Plants!!!

#growathome #whattosow #flowerseeds

[jeffreyrossi]

Too short a growing season in North Dakota zone 4 to keep sowing annuals but not the biennials. I inherited some with my current property and always a pleasure to see the seedlings popping up now. Sweet Williams happens to be one of them and I always wonder as a gardener the day they may have been planted. To me it's a way a gardener from the past reaches out beyond their time and maybe even to future gardeners beyond mine.

[niallgardens]

Hope you enjoyed this! Let me know what you're sowing (or not sowing!!) 😃

[deezahm]

🌱Hello Niall and all friends watching. I’m in an apartment with a cement-slab patio, so just plant up containers for color thru the summertime. I just added some nasturtium seeds to my geraniums and petunias, lobelia and vinca vines. I enjoy their trailing flowers and they will be orange and vanilla so will fit right into fall. Jane is delightful, and you are, too. Beautiful content. I’m a new sub here, and look forward to seeing you again and again. Have a lovely weekend everyone 💚💛💚💛💚

[megansfo]

Hello Niall! I live in the Pacific Northwest U.S. near Vancouver Island in zone 8b. Our climate is cool and cloudy most of the time. My orange lilies are still blooming! I never knew carrots had such interesting flowers.

[elfmaart]

Extra bonus for the Sweet Williams: the slugs (at least the slugs in my garden) don't like them!!

[botanicaltreasures]

Greetings from SC. I’ve got quite an erosion problem here on a hillside. I just ordered some gomphrenia, celosia & Japonica corn seeds. I might have enough time to harvest corn before frost, but even if I don’t, I need the corn roots to hold in the soil. Japonica corn has purple and white stripes on its leaves so it won’t look out of place in a flowerbed. Right now potatoes are hiding in plain sight in one of my flowerbeds. Last summer I planted red okra in my hillside garden. The flowering okra looked fantastic—hibiscus like flowers and tropical like foliage. I even made a video about the okra.

[potterkelly]

Love sweet William, the colours you get from one plant is amazing. Cuttings for vases last longer and give pow to your bouquet.🇨🇦❤️

[hazelmanship]

Loved this video, plenty of ideas to try out. Thanks Niall.
So hot here 29 deg, blue sky and sunshine, I'm sat in the garden under the shade from the conifers, watching the shallows darting around and aeroplanes above us. Gardens becoming colourful now, just got 1 small sunflower 🌻 flowered today, can't wait to see my red ones and white ones new for this year. My snap dragons seed themselves all over the bees love them. Still got lovely poppies flowering too, crimson pink so pretty. Bye till next time take care 🙂

[houdiniandthegardens]

Yes, every day 😍😍😍 we are both super lucky to have them ❤️

[jasminelouisefarrall]

I love cow parsley especially for my flower arrangements 💕 amazing seed’s 🌸💕🌸

[geraldinekelly]

Oh I just love it when you get that seed box out!! Like you Niall, I have never grown Sweet William but wow! Jane's are fab!! I have created two wild garden corners in my front and back gardens. I scattered native wild seeds and also put in Calendula, Cosmos, Lupins and more that I had sown from seed and there's a wild phlox ( I think ) in there too. It is all beginning to look absolutely beautiful. There's lots of plants that I haven't a clue what they are but I love them! I tried last year and failed but this year I think I've done not so bad!! Thank you Niall so much for a truly fantastic video xx

[lisaskilton]

Great video Niall! I love sweet williams but you have to be careful as they do spread lots but so beautiful.

[GardenDiscovery]

Here in zone 9b, my first round of wildflowers and cosmos have done their thing and are on the way out. I've been collecting seeds to put out for round two. We'll have warm weather through September, sometimes October. Also, I like to grow green onions for the white globe like blooms( I think there you call them spring onions). They look nice mixed with their cousin, the drumstick purple alliums, which lasted three months for me this year. Wow I love them.
Another great vid, Niall. Thank you.

[peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo]

Greetings, Niall, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸
I was just thinking about you yesterday and voila, here you are.
We are in our Hot Patch of summer ☀️ and we will be until the end of September.
I have had great success with Tomatoes 🍅 this year and Marigolds and Basil.
It's time to pull everything out and begin again. I'm going to pull up you website and read thoroughly.
Take care, Niall 🌿💚🌿

[KathleenStidham]

This was a beautiful episode! Thank you for the suggestions, and the reminder that I wanted to use sweet william again - there's still time for me to find seed.

[TuftyMcTavish]

🌸 My May-sown flower display is coming to a close so this is a perfect follow-up episode for me!

[LorraineG]

Love your honesty Niall, sometimes things don't work, trust me I know all too well. From year to year nothing ever the same. Awe loved you had the wonderful Jane, I love her channel too. Great recommendations the two of ye.
I love sow honesty, I planted last year, and wow it gave me so much pleasure for months snd still is, the life cycle from flowering to the last colouring of the seed pods.
Live your colours of your flowers Niall, and glad you are enjoying them. Thanks for another great video.

[donaldauguston]

Niall, darling, I could not enjoy your channel more. Thank you for posting these fabulous videos. Donald - Vancouver, WA USA

[MissMolly]

I have those carrots, but they grow in the wild. I kept looking at them and thinking the leaves looked like carrots. I am going to check them out. 😊

[amassing]

Sweet Williams have a bit of an image problem but I think they are fantastic and perfect for cut flowers. In addition to everything Jane says the vase life is really good - you can easily get two weeks or more out of them. There are several interesting varieties available now if you don't fancy the bog standard pink colours - this year I grew one called Sooty which is so dark it's almost black which looks fabulous with softer pastel colours in the vase. Like a lot of biennials they are technically short lived perennials so if you have mild winters where you live they will normally flower well again the following year.