Seed Starting Basics: 5 Great Perennial Flowers for Pollinators: Over-Seeding, Starting & Dividing

In this episode of Seed Starting Basics I show you how to start 5 great perennial flowers that will come back year after year. Bees and pollinators will love them. I also show you 5 weeks of growth and how to divide them up. This is a great way to save money and add flowers to your gardens.

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[zeppypaige]

As always, well done 👍🏻
You’re videos are my favorite because you make everything so doable! Your enthusiasm is never over the top and fake but just enough for those watching to say to themselves “hey, I can do that!”
Thank you Gary!

[kimking]

you have inspired me to do a plant sale. I am kind of rural, but off a main road. I thought about doing a farmers market but doing it at home would be so much easier. I am starting everything for my vegetable garden too. I hope I'm not biting off more than I can chew. LOL

[fumasterchu]

I find that winter sowing my perennial flowers works amazingly well. I just put them in water or milk jugs with soil in January and stick them outside, come Spring they're all up and ready to be put in the ground. Set it and forget it!

[lauraspencer]

HI Gary Pilarchik
Thank-you for your excellent video's/tutorials!!! I'm just starting my first garden; have some lupins that are growing great my light is 2"away from them. They're growing quickly starting to topple over.. seeing yours like that puts me at ease!!

[peacefulpuls]

This is so helpful! Thank you. I am growing perennial flowers so I appreciate this.

[randyn]

Informative and a pleasure to watch. Thank you for your time.

[cultivatingorganicbyjomig]

You are right about handling your transplant. Sometimes I find myself a little too careful with my seedlings.

[sharongodbout]

Wow you sure have a lot of work ahead of you! Glad you love gardening eh? LOL! Great vid Gary thanks for sharing!

[raymondamaral]

It would be nice to show a photo of the flowers you are talking about

[Rachel-vzyg]

Thanks for all the great info! I tried starting perennials from seed last year and all I have from the effort is 2 columbines and a number of butterfly milkweed plants. I think I was a little too disorganized. But most of the perennials in my yard are discounted plants I picked up on sale at the end of the season. Even at a discount it's amazing how much a plant costs (though I can respect that they're well taken care of and often unique proprietary varieties).

[kiminmt.]

Excellent video!! I am really looking forward to hearing you talk about selling your extra seedlings.

[yvencia]

Great video and thank you for sharing!

[mariawinzler]

Will you be at the Maryland Home and Garden this weekend? Hope to see you I'm planning on going!

[chariprice]

Thanks Gary! i grew some from seeds last year but I need to get some other varieties to start this year. I didnt over seed too much, but your method works great and will do it this year.

[christinaanderson]

Wow so informative. I didn't think about overseeding and I have 1 coneflower per container. Oops. I guess I will overseed the plants that I am doing now.

[bakachiki]

Mint, Lavender, Catnip, Lemon Balm all look nice to me. Coneflowers and bellflowers, black eyed susans are nice too maybe hollyhock too. Thought about planting yarrow too

[Nellyandhernerd]

Could you do the over seed method with rudbeckia?

[joannbishop]

Hi Gary. I loved this video. I learned a lot from it. This year I am starting flower seeds. I think you would like a video by Diego Footer. It’s called “an easy way to raise and lower your grow lights”. I bought the product he is talking about, and I love it. I think you would, too. It’s a real time saver.

[ewellacres]

for those plants that require a cold period, if I know I am going to be doing the whole garden with seed then ill go ahead and simply stick the whole packet into the fridge or freezer what ever is required so that way i dont use up the space on my growing beds until I am ready to have them start to grow.