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Once you plant cosmos in the garden, you may be rewarded with volunteer seedlings in subsequent years.

Or grow shorter varieties like Sonata and Cosmic. Plant tall varieties en mass to eliminate the need for staking. The fine foliage adds texture to the garden and the white, pink, lavender blooms light up the mid-summer through fall garden. Start cosmos seeds indoors four to six weeks before the last spring frost or directly in the garden. Like zinnias, cosmos make a great cut flower and both are heat and drought tolerant in the garden. Grow taller varieties like Benary’s Giant for long stems, Queeny Lime Orange or Zowie! Yellow Flame for eye-catching color or Profusion and Zahara for small daisy-like flowers on compact mildew resistant plants in your low maintenance cut flower garden.

Either way, you’ll have flowers about eight weeks after planting the seeds. Start zinnia seeds indoors four weeks before the last spring frost or sow them directly in the garden. These beauties will brighten those sunny spots in the landscape and bouquets in your home. Here are a few easy-care annual flowers that you can start from seed indoors or directly in the garden. Supplementing them with perennial flowers and bulbs means you need to plant fewer annuals each year for a season filled with colorful garden-fresh bouquets. You’ll need to plant annuals each year, but you may decide the continuous bloom is well worth the effort. Just follow the directions on the seed packet.Īnnual flowers like these are known for season long bloom and a long vase life. If you’re not in a hurry, want to stretch your budget and extend your garden’s bloom time, sow some seeds directly in the garden. You’ll jump-start the season and enjoy earlier blooms by starting some of the seeds indoors to transfer into the garden after the danger of frost has passed. Just fill a few vacant spaces, add an extra row in garden beds or fill a container with easy care flowers started from seeds. You don’t need a lot of space or a big budget to grow and enjoy garden-fresh bouquets.