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.
Celosia comes in lovely shades of pink, wine, red, orange, and yellow, and sometimes others. Tiny black celosia seeds produce such gorgeous flowers! Growing celosia from seed can be so rewarding, especially when you are used to seeing it at farm stands or pick-your-own flower farms. Also known as “woolflowers,” the celosia flower falls into…
Ever notice how some plants go all wild and leggy, like Cosmos if left to their own devices? Pinching cosmos may change your life – or at least your gardening experience! We loved growing cosmos from seed in our flowerbeds last summer. Truth be told, the cosmos literally took over the space and grew vigorously…
Have you ever forgotten where you planted seeds or where you transplanted some seedlings? Becoming familiar with sunflower leaves can tell you a lot about the plants and also helps with identifying sunflower seedlings! Sunflower seedlings can look an awful lot like zinnia seedlings. After all, they’re both part of the Asteraceae family, along with…
As one of the most prized flowers around, roses would be magnificent if in bloom all the time. Discover how to deadhead roses to keep your rosebush blooming as long and fully as possible. Deadheading roses makes perfect sense although it doesn’t always come to mind as a truly obvious gardening task. At least for…
Mexican sunflowers bring a bright pop of red-orange to the garden or landscape. Native to Mexico and Central America, Mexican sunflower plants are beautiful in the garden and also lovely for cutting. Our girls enjoyed growing many different kinds of sunflowers over the years and the Mexican sunflower is no exception! Prolific blooms enliven the…
He loves me, he loves me not – forget splitting petals! Just snip off those spent blooms, because learning how to deadhead daisies will truly multiply your blooming season and volume! And let’s be honest, who doesn’t love more flowers?! The process of deadheading merely involves removing spent or fading blooms from the plant. Keeping…
Some bouquets are just too beautiful to be only part of a passing moment. Take the plunge and try growing rose cuttings from cut flowers so you can enjoy those roses every single year! If you don’t know how to root a rose cutting in water, don’t worry. I didn’t know either – but, with…
Strawflower brings unique beauty to the garden that endures far beyond bloom time. Many gardeners will save and dry strawflowers for pretty indoor arrangements and crafts. We are so excited to be growing strawflowers, scientifically known as Xerochrysum bracteatum, for the first time this year! We planted the seeds in an egg carton and they…
Imagine all the fun and gorgeous pictures you can take in a sunflower photoshoot! Plan ahead and find the best sunflower photoshoot outfit ideas for your crew to help ensure a picture-perfect family photo in the flower field. Every year, lots of farms open their fields to the public, allowing families, couples – and anyone…
Marigold flowers are a lovely addition to the garden as they offer pest control properties as well as a pretty pop of color. Consider different marigold companion plants to get the most from your garden! In my experience, marigolds and tomatoes grow very well together. In fact, so many vegetables and herbs make great companion…