Fall Planting Hardy Annuals // Cool Flowers Deep Dive!!! // Northlawn Flower Farm
Fall Planting Hardy Annuals // Cool Flowers Deep Dive!!! // Northlawn Flower Farm
Today I’m fall planting all my hardy annuals. Flowers that are winter hardy in your zone can be fall planted 6-8 weeks before the first frost.
Cool Flowers Book – https://www.amazon.com/dp/0989268810?tag=onamzdaniel0c-20&linkCode=ic5&ascsubtag=amzn1.infl.us.product&creativeASIN=0989268810&ref=exp_northlawnflowerfarm_dp_vv_d
Cool Flowers Playlist – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtYDI29esMiOpL5LCkCkfHyOY6m4I_XY2
List of Cool Flowers
Corn Cockle
Ammi Majus
Lisianthus
Green Mist
Godetia
Dara
Snapdragon
Bells of Ireland
Bupleurum
Bachelors Buttons
Nigella
Feverfew
Larkspur
Bellflower
Foxglove
Delphinium
Iceland Poppy
Pansy
Dropmore
Throatwort
Orlaya
Pincushion Flower
Sweet William
Rudbekia
Yarrow (Sorry I forgot to cover this. I plant it in very early spring)
Lambada
Calendula
Strawflower
Cool Flowers Lisa has added to the list – Carnations, Stock, Statice, Golden Drumstick, Atriplex. I have grown all these in the past. I do not grow them anymore. Some due to pest issues (stock and atriplex), but mainly because I found them less valuable than others.
What do you do about bugs in harvested flowers? I am in zone 7A/B and thank you for the video it was helpful.
This is another incredibly helpful, informative video. I am trying milk jug sowing for the first time this year, and I will use your information to guide me.
With seeds that are started indoors ~ do we sow them indoors at the same time that we are sowing outdoor seeds OR should they be started earlier than direct sown seeds and transplanted into the garden @ 6 weeks before frost?
I think bells of Ireland smell like apple or cucumber?
I’m in zone 3 and grow delphinium as a perennial.
No worries about being negative your being honest and that’s what us newbies need. Thank you
Hi Danielle love your videos. I’m in Southern chester County PA. Do you have any issues with deer eating your flowers. Do you have a list of deer resistant flowers you grow. Zinnias are one I know of. Thanks Linda
Really helpful, thank you. I appreciate your insights and suggestions!
What a great video!! Thank you!
Just wondering – have you ever winter sowed or jug sowed any of these flowers? I’m in 7a so I think I’ve missed my chance to direct sow. This was a very informative video. Thanks so much!
I have a question, at 3:17-3:20 there is a bigger bird flying through the trees on your right, seem like it landed on the roof. Which bird was that? 🤔 I love birds just like you, so I thought you might know it.
I keep returning to this video over and over again, love it!
Greetings, Judit
Hello, I’m new to your channel and can’t stop watching your videos! I had no idea I could over winter flowers. I am new to cut flower growing and had a video request. Would you please cover some of the tools, products and tricks you use to help extend a flowers shelf life? You mentioned a spray that you put on some dahlias and I think in this video you reference a dip?? I currently grow cut flowers for myself and friends, but intrigued by the idea of selling at a farmers market. Any advice you have would be great. Thanks for such great content!!
Hi Danielle, I found this video a little bit too late to try planting out in fall 2021 but will be ready for next year. I am in northwest Lancaster County, PA. I bought the Cool Flowers book you recommended and found it to be very helpful. Looking forward to following your videos!
Thanks so much, Daniella. I’ve watched lots of videos on fall-sowing, and I have a number of books that describe it (including ‘Cool Flowers’) – but your video somehow connected all the dots for me, and has given me the confidence I need going forward.
I’m itching for Autumn – after three years of not being ready or able to fall sow my hardy annuals (beds not prepped, busy with newborns, etc), I have a good feeling that this is the year!
I have my first patch of Feverfew flowering in my New Zealand garden right now, and will be watching with interest to see how it behaves when I treat it as a perennial going into next season.
As far as Foxgloves go, I only grew the Dalmatian variety this season, which, like the Foxy series, doesn’t require vernalisation. They are beautiful, and I am planning to try some ‘wilderness zones’ on our property, to see if two years of sowing lots of Foxglove varieties will self-sow and sustain itself into the future.
How can I order this flower, I’m from Philippines
Lol I love it when people up north say how hot it gets. You don’t know hot till you get to Texas when it’s 110 and it’s insanely humid… are plants burn here it’s so hot
My sweet William reseeds it’s self and I’m in zone 6A I don’t do anything to it. It does not like to have mulch on it so find a space and just leave it be!
Delphinium is also a perennial here in 4b and we get tons of snow. Beautiful flower. Will be the third year.
9A is my zone any advice
I’m in zone 4b and have snap dragons that self sow, and petunias, also violas.
Look forward to all your videos…very helpful!! Zonev5b Michigan
Loved the video! I think Bells of Ireland smell like Irish Springs Soap!
I am a new subscriber, north central Arkansas. Also new to growing flowers. We have similar climate conditions, wet, hot and high humidity. What is a quick dip ?? Since I have missed the fall planting direct sow for cool flowers can I do the winter sowing in water jugs? I hope you answer. Thank you.
Hi Danielle! Your love and grace in flower growing is so inspiring. Have you tried fall planting anemone corms? Just wondering if you’ve had any experience with them. Thanks!
I have the cool flowers book and am also in 6b… can you clarify when you say plant 6-8 weeks before the last frost whether that means start the seeds indoors or transplant seedlings in the garden? I’m a bit overwhelmed
Very informative. Love your channel
Fantastic video!! You did an awesome job! You are a natural teacher!! Thank you for all the information!
I missed this soooooo important video that I needed as I quit my job of 20 years and a bad case of shingles from the stress of it all. I bought the 📖 last summer per your suggestion. This video is what I needed to fully understand it before. I have a hard time Lisa’s channel as it is very focused on flower farming. 🌼 Thank you so much!
Checking in from Old Town Florida!! Near the shores of the Suwannee River, zone 8b- with microclimates in 9,10.
Very humid weather, dry mostly, and trying winter sowing for the 1st time as a gardener and soon to be flower farmer. I started snapdragons in November, along with Shasta Daisies, Chinese forget me nots, pansies, violas, petunias in jugs as well as Lupine coriander, dill, larkspur, mums, Rudbeckia-black eyed Susan, and thunbergia or black eyed susan vine, Lavatera or Rose Mallow, kale, Verbeana, batchelor buttons, cosmos bright lights and Phlox, but some are outside and protected others in jugs. Still harvesting seeds
It’s all going good, and some failures but that happens!!
Gotta get Growing guys!!
AHAVA
Delphinium may not be viable crop for me in 8b, going to try next year!
(HUG)WOW – you are amazing, what a beautiful video, God has truly blessed you with a incredible talent for arranging flowers, you plant a seed in darkness it goes through hardships, rain, sleet, snow, wind, storms, strong wind, grows roots deeper into the ground, it searches for LIGHT as it burrows through the darkness, until it is strong enough to reach the LIGHT, then it produces stems leaves as it gets closer and closer to the LIGHT and beautiful colorful flowers appear, a feast for our eyes. PRAISE GOD for all our struggles in our journey through life, they make us stronger and stronger as we reach for the LIGHT. Yeshua/Jesus is the LIGHT OF THE WORLD. GOD HAS BLESSED YOU WITH THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIFT!
That was so helpful. Thank you ❤️
Some of what you said you had trouble growing fall planting have you ever tried winter sowing in containers. Works for me.
Delphiniums are a perennial here in zone 2B/3, Saskatchewan, Canada (directly north of Montana)
Winter temps are usually -40 – -45 C but we do have a good snow cover. I love my delphiniums.
Love this video, will watch it again and again… so much information!
Wow learned so much I am 76 years old and now I get it she explained it so well.
Can you cut off of Bupleurum multiple times..well..what I mean is..does 1 plant = 1 bouquet?
Is that an Empress of China Dogwood beging you with the red berries?
Delphinium in zone 5 is a short lived perennial. I take basal cuttings and root them every few years as replacements. However, I keep them in my landscape beds, like larkspur they are cold weather flowers. If they are too close together like in a dedicated cut bed they will not get enough air circulation.. one here and there spaced out with other slower growing plants in a bed may be your better option.
Thank you for such fantastic and clear information. You are such a pleasure to watch!
I am in zone 6b central ks. Great video, I am excited to try fall planting flowers
Hi Danielle, I really enjoy your videos, and that you are willing to share your family history, which adds beautiful context to your gardening and flower arranging style. I am growing flowers in very limited mulch beds around our house and would like your suggestions for best cut flowers for bouquets for our own house and friends and family. Your five favorite cool flowers are mostly filler plants, except the snapdragons, so I am looking for the "main" flowers. This year, I have sown large flower zinnia and Cosmos and tried larkspur and bachelors buttons (too late in the spring!) . I have learned so much from your videos about creating bouquets and using shrubs and greenery to round them out. Thank you so much for the inspiration! Zone 6b in SW PA. Frauke
Delphiniums are typically a short-lived perennial here in 4a (Central Minnesota). They usually come back strong for a few years and then fizzle out.
I hear you lady☺️
Top 5 flowers to grow: snapdragons, feverfew, buplerum, nigella, and dara. Thank you so much for this video. I just bought her book and I’m in zone 6b/7 and growing in my little backyard. I was feeling overwhelmed figuring out how I was going to fit all these flowers in my garden. I already started two trays of snapdragons for spring planting along with strawflowers. Now I know what to order for fall planting. I can’t wait!
Hi Danielle, Can you help? I just found this video when I was looking for fall seeding methods for planting this year. I missed the date, since our first frost was predicted to be on October 8. I had no idea I should direct sow 6-8 weeks PRIOR to that date. My questions are: can I still direct sow now, we haven’t had a frost, it’s been in the 80’s. If so, will I get blooms this coming spring? If I can’t direct sow, can I sow in milk jugs? If so when would I put those out? Thanks!!!
What do you mark your garden beds with when you plant seeds in fall awaiting there arrival in spring? I forget where I plant things…btw..iam also in southern PA! Thanks for videos.
I live in zone 10 a. Would the Cool Flower book even be something I could use? I love cool flowers but I’m not sure if any of the cool flowers will actually live here (other than Snapdragons).
I’m trying cool annuals for the first time! So excited. You’ve inspired me! They have sprouted and doing well. Do I need to do anything to protect them from the cold here in Zone 7a?
Bells of Ireland are my arch Nemesis! I understand!!
I’m not giving up
Do you use a frost cloth or hoop house or do these stay outside through the winter uncovered? Thanks!