Flowers

We love growing flowers. The benefits of a flower garden go far beyond the initial beauty. Flowers in the garden bring so much joy!

– Your flowers will bring pollinators to help other gardens as well!
– Flower gardens make it easy to bring cut flowers into your home whenever you want.
– Flowers add beautiful color all around your home, inside and out.

Growing Flowers in Zone 6b

We are so excited to be growing many different flowers, both annuals and perennials. We’ll cover seeds and bulbs, bulbils, bulblets, and more.

Some of the flowers you may expect to see on here include:

  • Lilies
  • Peonies
  • Sunflowers
  • Cosmos
  • Marigolds
  • Zinnias
  • Nasturtium
  • Daisies
  • Daffodils
  • Hyacinths
  • And More!

Cutting Garden

This year a big gardening goal and focus for our family will be a gorgeous cutting garden! We look forward to enjoying fresh flowers inside the home and also surprising friends and neighbors.

Flower Topics

Some of the flower gardening content you can look forward to here on Bunny’s Garden may include:

Flower gardens offer beauty, serenity, and joy that can spread from one garden to another. Save your seeds to share with another gardener to multiply the beauty from one garden to the next.

Here you’ll also discover some tips and tricks on propagating flowers. We’ll share videos on these topics as well.

Check back here for all the posts on growing flowers, starting flower seeds, and more.

Dwarf Sunflowers Seeds, Plants & Cut Flowers
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Dwarf Sunflowers Seeds, Plants & Cut Flowers

Dwarf sunflowers are the perfect fit for summertime flower arrangements! Sturdy stems and stunning blooms beautifully fill vases or burst out of handtied bouquets. Planting dwarf sunflowers seeds in spring or early summer results in these memorable summer flowers enjoyable for one and all. Sunflowers definitely seem to be one of the most popular blooms…

Deadheading Knockout Roses – Drop-dead Gorgeous Summer Blooms
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Deadheading Knockout Roses – Drop-dead Gorgeous Summer Blooms

Doesn’t everyone want Knockout roses that bloom all summer? They wouldn’t be knockouts if they just stopped, right?! Well, deadheading knockout roses is easy enough and quick enough to add into your gardening routine. If you learn how to deadhead knockout roses, you can keep them blooming beautifully all summer long! Not everyone knows the…

Transplanting Milkweed Seedlings, Starts, & Reseeded Volunteers
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Transplanting Milkweed Seedlings, Starts, & Reseeded Volunteers

Some gardeners say growing milkweed from seed can be a tricky process. Sometimes it’s much quicker and easier when acquiring butterfly weed starter plants and then transplanting milkweed in the garden. This is the route I decided to take with butterfly weed and swamp milkweed, although I will try from seed another time. I lucked…

Propagating Portulaca – How to Propagate Portulaca Flowers
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Propagating Portulaca – How to Propagate Portulaca Flowers

Propagating Portulaca allows you to create clones of your favorite moss rose plants. This semi-succulent flower propagates easily in the right conditions. Discover how to propagate Portulaca plants quickly with very little effort. Sometimes Portulaca become too leggy. You can fix that and double your plants! The perfect solution is a bit of pruning and…

Do Lilies Spread? (Multiplying Asiatic, Trumpet, & Oriental Lily)
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Do Lilies Spread? (Multiplying Asiatic, Trumpet, & Oriental Lily)

Wouldn’t it be amazing if your favorite flowers multiplied over and over all on their own?! Sometimes the best ones do! If you’re wondering, do lilies spread? – you are in luck! Asiatic lilies, trumpet lilies, and oriental lilies reproduce beautifully, even without your assistance. Cultivating a lily garden can lead to a lifelong journey…

How to Deadhead Portulaca: Should You Deadhead Portulaca Flowers?

How to Deadhead Portulaca: Should You Deadhead Portulaca Flowers?

The colorful, showy blooms of Portulaca flowers add cheerful beauty throughout the garden. Should you deadhead Portulaca to increase blooming? Learn how to deadhead Portulaca and whether you actually really need to or not. Also known as Moss Rose, Portulaca grandiflora thrives in heat and produces beautiful, colorful blooms. It’s reasonably possible you could plant…

Propagating Fuchsia – How to Propagate Fuchsia Cuttings
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Propagating Fuchsia – How to Propagate Fuchsia Cuttings

Until recently, I’d never tried growing Fuchsia, although I’d heard all about it in my gardening circles. Now, with my own plant, I found a broken branch and decided to try propagating fuchsia from cuttings. It was easier than I thought! When I found a broken stem upon getting home from the store, I immediately…

How to Deadhead African Daisies – Deadheading & Pruning Osteospermum
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How to Deadhead African Daisies – Deadheading & Pruning Osteospermum

If you want to keep your gorgeous flowers blooming all summer, take time to learn how to deadhead African daisies properly. Deadheading Osteospermum (scientific name) is quick and easy when you make time for it! At a greenhouse earlier in June, my youngest daughter and I fell in love with some pinkish purple and orange…