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This video explains which flowers are easiest to grow from seed and how beginners can achieve successful results.
The guide covers choosing suitable flower varieties, sowing correctly, watering seedlings, providing light and caring for young plants. It also explains how simple growing methods help produce strong, healthy flowers.
If you want colourful blooms and an easy start to flower growing, these simple practical tips will help you grow flowers successfully from seed.
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my top 10 flower seeds to grow this year
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down at the a lotment. Welcome to
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Gardening with Ben and we're going to
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talk about what the top 10 flowers are
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to grow for your a lotment and garden
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and the ones that we're going to be
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trying to grow this year down at the
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plot. I'm excited to try more and more
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flowers down at the plot. Having flowers
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in the a lotment and the garden attracts
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the bees helps with pollination. The
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more bees you get, the more fruit you'll
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get because they'll pollinate and the
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better veg that you'll get as well. Last
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year's fruit was an abundance of fruit
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because we've got more and more flowers
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growing on the plot. So, more and more
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bees are coming which are helping with
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the pollination. So, my top 10 flowers
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to try and grow this year down at the
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plot. First one has to be the sunflower.
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Absolutely love it. It's one of my
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favorite flowers of all time. And yes,
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it don't come back every year unless you
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get a perennial variety, but I love the
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sunflower. And they're so easy to grow.
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Once you've got them growing to a decent
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size and the slugs can't get them, you
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will get some great flowers on them. And
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you get so many seeds from them as well.
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So you can either save the seeds from
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them to plant for the year after or you
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can roast them or save them for the
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birds as well. And there's so many
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colors of sunflowers out there. There's
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obviously the yellow ones, the orange
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ones, the red ones, black ones. There's
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no pink ones. So if you see pink ones
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advertised, don't get them. They're like
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a reddy blacky one. Um, make sure you
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buy them from a reputable company as I
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see so many online places selling fake
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seeds that are not the variety and not
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the color that they advertise them. So,
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be careful when buying seeds and they
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are absolutely great and obviously you
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can use them for cut flower or you can
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just use them for attracting the bees
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down at the plot and I absolutely love
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them. Last year's sunflower display down
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at the plot was absolutely amazing.
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Second one has to be the sweet pea.
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Absolutely gorgeous. I didn't grow any
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last year, but we're going to go full
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slog and get some growing this year.
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We've already sewn our seeds for this
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year, and I'm looking forward to them.
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And the best thing about sweet peas is
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the more you cut the flowers, the more
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they'll keep producing them, and you'll
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be able to harvest them every couple of
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days. And keep topping up your vasees
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with sweet peas. And they smell gorgeous
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as well. Absolutely a great addition to
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any garden. And if you don't pick them,
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they'll go to seed. So you can save the
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seeds for next year. So usually towards
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the end of the season, let some of the
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flowers go to seed and then you'll get
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some seeds for next year, saving you
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money as well. Next up is geraniums.
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Another great flower to grow from seed.
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Now I did this the other year and they
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were fantastic. Geraniums can be
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expensive to buy, but they're so easy to
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grow from seed. If you start them off
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early enough around March time, you will
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get some flowers on them this year. They
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might not be big big big plants, but you
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can dig the plants up at the end of the
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year, put them in your greenhouse or
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your poly tunnel, keep them alive, and
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then plant them back out next year and
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they'll be bigger and better as well.
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So, you can actually save your geraniums
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for the year after. So, give them a try
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and let me know how you get on. Next up
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is another easy flower, marolds. A great
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addition and a great color to any
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garden. And obviously, they're good for
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tomato plants and good for keeping pests
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away. So yeah, marolds are a great
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addition to any garden. So easy to grow
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and you can get some great flowers from
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them. Next up is another one which is
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similar to marold. It's called colundula
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and that is a selfseeding flower. So be
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careful where you plant them. If you
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don't mind them popping up everywhere,
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they will spread and they will produce
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flowers year after year and they're
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great. They'll die back at the end of
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the year and flout spread the seeds and
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you'll get more plants popping up here
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and there and everywhere. But they are a
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great addition and they're absolutely
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gorgeous. A great color to any garden,
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any border and yeah, I'm going to be
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growing some of them this year for
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definite. Next up are zenyas. Another
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great flower for any garden. Lots of
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lovely color and yeah, you can get some
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great flowers from them. All these
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flowers I'm going to be growing myself
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and trying them down at the a lotment.
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So, make sure you stay tuned for us
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sewing all these this year. Next up, a
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nice easy one for beginners is corn
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flour. You can get them in blue, you can
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get them in white, and I think you can
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get them in purpley color as well. And
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another great flower to add to the
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garden, and they flower for ages. They
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keep the color and absolutely gorgeous
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to any garden.
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Next one, they don't flower for long,
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but they are a great flower and great
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color. And these are the poppies. Now,
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obviously, everybody sees the red poppy,
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but there's many different varieties out
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there. And I love growing the weird and
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wonderful flowers and there's so many
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different varieties out there. So, if
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you're looking at poppies, have a look
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at the different varieties and seeing
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what variety you want to give a try. And
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yeah, a great addition. And again, they
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produce the seed heads, so you can save
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the seeds for the year after and then
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sew some more year after year and save
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yourself some money in growing the
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poppies. Another good one is Cosmos. An
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easy one for a beginner gardener and you
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can't go wrong with growing it and it
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adds some great color to the garden. So,
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we will be trying Cosmos this year and
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hopefully adding some great color to the
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plot. And last one is one that you can
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eat, nersium. Now, I'm not one for
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eating flowers, but you can actually eat
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them. And they're great for the garden.
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They spread, they add some great color,
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and yeah, they attract the bees.
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absolutely gorgeous and you will get
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some great flowers and produce from them
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if you are fancying eating them. I think
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this taste is pepper. I think I tried
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one once but I'm not one for trying
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flowers to eat. But yeah, if you want to
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give it a try, it'll add some great
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color and fill a border as well. So that
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is our top 10 flowers and we're going to
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try and grow all them 10 flowers this
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year down at plot. So make sure you drop
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us a follow to stay up to date with us
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growing them and seeing how well we get
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on with them. Like I say, I always am
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honest. If they grow, they grow. If they
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don't, I'll show you. And yeah, I'll
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show you the failures as well as the
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success. So, until next time, everyone,
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remember, keep smiling, keep shining,
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and keep gardening. Everyone.
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