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.
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:
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.
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.
Growing zinnia seeds is such a rewarding experience for gardeners of any experience – I highly recommend it! But once you start, make sure you know what zinnia sprouts look like! You don’t want to accidentally weed away a volunteer zinnia seedling during the spring garden cleanup. Once you start growing zinnias from seed, it…
Prolific in bloom, cosmos can be a fantastic flowerbed stunner. Brilliant in color and magnets for pollinators, what’s not to love?! But, are cosmos perennials or annuals? We’ve started growing cosmos back in our 2020 garden. After quite a few amazing seed swaps, I ended up with sensation cosmos and seashell cosmos. At the time,…
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…
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…
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…
Petunias are one of the flowers I most remember from my childhood flowerbeds. (Along with marigolds and impatiens, of course.) I loved picking out the flowers with my mom each spring. If you’re wondering, “are petunias annuals or perennials,” I can help! The pretty, trumpet-like shape sets the petunia apart. It adds a touch of…
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…
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…
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…
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…