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.
Overwintering dahlias isn’t as intense or time-consuming as you might suspect. The stunning, showy blooms are reason enough to try overwintering dahlia tubers during the coldest time of the year. It’s easy and I’ll show you how! Dahlias are tender perennials that are generally only hardy in zones 8-10. Up here in PA, I’ve foolishly…
Zinnias are one of our very favorite flowers to grow! I also enjoy taking pictures of zinnias to keep track of all the gorgeous flowers we’ve grown. Flower photography is a delightful hobby to enjoy alongside gardening, so I’m doubly happy when I get to dabble in both! Some zinnia flowers grew completely by surprise…
Pinching snapdragons encourages a more compact plant with abundant blooms. Learning how to pinch snapdragons is a common practice among many gardeners. The argument is compelling. This simple gardening hack literally multiplies the blooms you can expect! Snapdragons tend to grow bushier with more branches after pinching. Not only that, but you can pinch snapdragons…
Wouldn’t it be nice to double your blooms every time you grow antirrhinum? Knowing how to propagate snapdragons from cuttings or pieces you’ve pinched off the plant truly works to your advantage. Oh, and propagating snapdragons is a snap! As you may know, we have a major groundhog problem in the garden here. Bunnies, too….
Learning how to save nasturtium seeds helps to ensure a viable collection of seeds for future seasons. Follow a few nasturtium drying and storage tips to easily grow this garden flower and culinary herb year after year. If you haven’t collected your seeds yet, head over to my post on Harvesting Nasturtium Seeds to get…
Yellow is the color of happiness, hope, and friendship. Fill your garden with sunny yellow perennials to create a breathtaking display of joyful color. Perennial flowers grow back every year. Therefore, these plants make an excellent choice for a low-maintenance garden you can enjoy year after year. Plant some yellow perennials to brighten up your…
Ah, the intoxicating scent of lavender! I love it in all kinds of beauty and health products, and now I’m trying to grow lavender in the garden. I started looking for lavender companion plants to give my lavender garden the best chance of success. Perhaps I’m off base, but I swear I’ve heard through the…
Sometimes plants break. Other times we just love them so much, we want more. Whatever the case, propagating nasturtiums from cuttings is so easy that you can try it just as a matter of principle! We love garden experiments here at Bunny’s Garden! One day I found a piece of broken nasturtium just lying in…
Four o’clock flowers are so named due to their shyness in direct, bright sunlight. When growing four o’clocks, you will notice their tendency to close their blooms during the hottest part of the day and open their flowers after the sun heads for the horizon. Therefore, the name four o’clocks is pretty accurate… Although, my…
For the first time, this year we planted calendula in the garden. We picked a flower here or there but mostly enjoyed the sunny yellow blooms amid our strawberry plants. Finding ripe calendula seeds ready to harvest recently was an exciting moment! Harvesting calendula seeds in the garden is an easy activity for gardeners of…