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Spring is a season when all kinds of flowers catch your eye, and that alone makes your heart feel light and fluffy, doesn’t it?
You often see houses with beautifully kept eaves overflowing with flowers, but for gardening beginners, it can feel a bit intimidating.
So in this article, we’ll introduce flowers that are recommended for beginners to sow in spring and grow from seed.
Buying seedlings and planting them is the quickest route, but many people still want to try growing from seed.
Above all, starting from seed is inexpensive, and the joy when they grow and bloom is on a whole different level.
If you’re a beginner, be sure to try growing these recommended varieties!
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[Even Gardening Beginners Are Welcome!] Flowers Grown From Seeds Sown in Spring (1–10)
Nadeshiko
The distinctive, beautiful shape of the petals is so charming! Let me introduce you to dianthus (nadeshiko).
Fill a planter with potting mix, sow the seeds, and water them.
About 30 days after sowing, true leaves will appear, so transplant them and keep an eye on their growth.
Buds usually form around 180 days after sowing, so use that as a general guideline.
The blooms of dianthus are vivid and gorgeous.
There are many colors and patterns—variegated designs, pale pink, deep pink, and more—so it’s exciting to see them flower.
Give them a try in your garden!
Dahlia
Gorgeous, large blooms make dahlias so beautiful! Let me introduce them.
In this video, the seeds germinated in 6 days after sowing, so under good conditions you can see noticeable growth in about a week—which is exciting.
Once the leaves start to develop, transplant them into a larger pot.
At that time, be sure to cover the stem with soil up to around the base of the leaves so the seedling doesn’t topple over in the wind.
Keep an eye on them while applying diluted Hyponex liquid fertilizer at 1:500 and sprinkling Orthene (for pest prevention).
They should bloom in about 90 to 100 days, so give them a try!
Impatiens
The vivid flower colors are beautiful! Let me introduce impatiens.
They bloom well even in the shade and can be enjoyed from summer through early autumn, so they’re highly recommended! Since March is still cool, it seems easier for seeds to sprout if you keep them indoors until mid-April.
Fill a cell tray with seed-starting mix, moisten it with water, and place one seed in each cell.
Bottom-water using a tray and keep an eye on dryness, maintaining room temperature around 20°C (68°F)—that’s the key! Once true leaves appear, feed with liquid fertilizer once a week.
You can expect blooms about 11 weeks after sowing.
Lavender
Let’s enjoy the scent and the tiny purple flowers—here’s an introduction to lavender! Place a cotton puff in a tray, then put tiny seeds, about 2 mm and as small as sesame grains, on top and cover them with another cotton puff.
Water them and wait for germination while being careful not to let them dry out.
Once they sprout, transplant them into plastic cups and watch for the growth of their true leaves.
Observing the seedlings grow slowly makes even the smallest changes exciting and uplifting, doesn’t it? Give it a try!
zinnia
Known by its Japanese name Hyakunichisou, the zinnia is said to bloom for a hundred days from summer through autumn, just as the name suggests.
While zinnias used to come mostly in bright colors like orange and red, breeding has produced a wide range of hues, including smoky, muted tones.
Zinnias have a taproot system, with short roots branching from a thick main root, so they dislike being transplanted.
Once planted, avoid moving them.
They are also prone to powdery mildew, a disease that looks like white powder on the surface, so take care to prevent excess humidity and poor air circulation.
Aster
Asters are plants in the Asteraceae family and are also known as China asters.
Because they work well as cut flowers, it’s handy to grow them in your garden.
They can be sown in spring or autumn, with spring sowing recommended in March to April.
If you keep the soil from drying out, they will germinate in about 10 days.
Once they have sprouted, be careful not to overwater them.
On the other hand, it’s important not to skip fertilizing.
To keep the flowers blooming, promptly remove spent blooms as soon as they finish.
Petunia
It’s a flower that represents home gardening so much that it’s called the pansy of winter and the petunia of summer.
There’s an abundance of varieties and colors, ranging from large blooms to very small ones—truly diverse.
The wide color range is remarkable, too; it’s lovely to plant them to create a beautiful gradient from pure white to deep black.
They prefer spots with plenty of direct sunlight, but avoid harsh western sun in summer.
Considering typhoons and such, planters or pots are probably better.
Prepare well-aerated soil as you would for other flowers.
If you trim the tips of the stems, it encourages branching and will grow into a fuller, more voluminous display of blooms!