The 5 EASIEST Flower Seeds You Can Start for Zones 9 & 10

If you don't tell, I love flowers just as much as fruit & veggies!

I want to talk about five super easy varieties you can grow. Before we get to that, let's talk about WHY flowers are so important.

Flowers are usually some of the first things to bloom in the spring, and they'll attract pollinators all year long. Bees, hummingbirds, and others will want to visit your area and spend time spreading pollen around your flowers and other crops.

Those beneficial insects are going to make your ecosystem more healthy and more productive. So let's talk about those 5 flowers!

These are SUPER EASY to start from seed (and will re-seed themselves even in at our Ramona farm which gets HOT and also pretty chilly in the winter), and you can get a really wide range of colors & sizes. They make a great cutflower too!

If you want to know how easy it is to grow borage, just know that I didn't even plant this. A plant from a previous season dropped its seed, and the season rains & irrigation did the rest.

It's a prolific re-seeder, so you really just have to plant it once. The flowers have lots of pollen (which is why they're so tasty) and will attract TONS of bees.

A couple other things that I love about borage is that the flowers are edible (great for a quick snack or adding to a salad to dress it up), and it creates a lot of biomass which is great for composting.

We have a couple varieties of favas, and they have many of the same qualities as borage. Their biomass production is unmatched, they grow TONS of flowers, and they're a great cool season bean option.

Calendula just takes care of itself! Start it once, and you'll have no problem growing flowers year after year. Of course, they bring lots of pollinators to your garden, but they're also edible & medicinal. It doesn't get much easier than this!

Also called Blanket Flower, Gaillardia is - you guessed it - both easy and beautiful. Like all of the others here, you can direct sow them and let them re-seed year after year.

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[patriciagrace]

LOVE! your flowers and especially, your enthusiasm!!! Thank you!

[farmgirl]

I love flowers in the garden and around the yard. ❤😊

[Gigiyou]

I just bought scabiosa yesterday from my local nursery ❤purple just like yours.

[llamamama]

I had a bunch of borage pop up all over my beds but they needed to be moved and they survived a transplant nicely. I plugged them along bed borders in both poor & rich soil and they’re all thriving

[vikkidugan]

The calendula are so pretty. They are the same color as the nasturtiums I grew a few years ago which added such vibrant color to my garden. Your seeds, of course!

[judysocal]

Flowers I am adding this year are bee balm and hyssop. I have had bee balm in the past and it lives up to the name. The flowers are amazing too. This will be my first year with hyssop but it is supposed to be a good pollinator attractor.

[Thegardenjourney]

What climbing plant is that in the background? It looks like sweet pea from afar.

[ttilles]

Can we plant clematis at zone 10? If yes what month?

[jesusflores]

wow no zinnias, I hear you though. Someone had to be left out of a top 5 and zinnias (lose) a point for benefitting so much from topping when young that you sorta have to lol

[MLissCA]

How late can the favas be planted? I've been worried I missed my window.

[Robin-tried-it]

I think my scabiosa seeds are too old. I've tried to start them indoors for the past two years and they never come up.

[connie.]

Hmm. Some of those hard to find in my country. If you did a longer list maybe ild find a few locally.

[teresaoconnor]

unfortuntely voles loved my fava beans to death 😑