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April is the perfect time to start sowing flowers for a colourful and vibrant summer garden.
In this video, I’ll guide you through what flowers you should be sowing this month to get the best results. Getting your timing right now means you’ll enjoy months of blooms, colour, and pollinator-friendly plants later in the season.
Whether you’re filling borders, containers, or growing for cut flowers, this is the time to get started.
Perfect for beginners and experienced gardeners alike, this will help you plan ahead and create a garden full of life and colour.
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Flower seeds to sew in April. Welcome to
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Gardening with Ben. And today's video,
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we're going to be talking about what
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flower seeds to sew this month in the
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garden and in the a lotment. So, if
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you've not checked out what vegetable
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seeds to sew this month, go and check
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that video out as well and get sewing
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some vegetables as well. So, you'll need
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a piece of paper to write down the list
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of flowers that you can sew in April or
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save this video and make sure that you
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share it to people that need to know
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what seeds to sew this month. So first
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up, arundola. A great flower to any
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garden and you can actually have them in
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salads. They're absolutely delicious. So
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yeah, you they grow like everywhere.
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They'll burst the seed everywhere. So
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watch out. But if you don't mind, grow
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some colundola and it'll add some great
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color to the garden. Next up are corn
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flowers. A great color. Blue, white,
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pink. You can get plenty of colors of
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cornflour and so easy to sew and grow as
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well. Next up are cosmos. Another great
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flower for the garden. My favorite.
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Next, sunflowers. Now is the month to be
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sewing all your sunflowers. There's
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plenty of different colors out there and
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varieties, different heights, different
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colors. Absolutely gorgeous. The bees
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love them and I love them as well. So,
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I'm growing absolutely loads of
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sunflowers down here this year. Next up
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are poppies. Now, you can get different
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varieties of poppies and not just the
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red ones. All different weird and
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looking beautiful ones. I do love
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different varieties and we're going to
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be sewing lots of different varieties of
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poppies this year. Next up are sweet
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peas. If you've not started them, get
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them sewn, get them growing, and add
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some color to the garden. The more you
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pick them, the more they'll keep
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flowering, and they look absolutely
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gorgeous and smell divine as well. Next
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up are lock spur. Then it's nersiums.
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Again, you can eat them and there's
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loads of varieties out there. I'm
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growing them for the first time this
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year and they're growing really well
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already. We'll be potting them on pretty
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soon, ready for planting them out in May
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when the chance of frost is gone. Next
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up are marolds. Another great easy color
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to add to the garden and so easy to grow
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from seed. Save yourself some money. Sew
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some marold seeds. And again, there's
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plenty of different varieties out there
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to grow and add some color to the
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garden. Next up are zenas. Another great
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flower.
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Ders. You can grow them from seed. You
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don't have to necessarily grow them from
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tubers. We growing loads of ders from
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seed this year. First time trying it. So
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hopefully we'll get a great display. And
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again, I can dig them up the tubers at
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the end of the year, store them away,
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and then plant them next year. So
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hopefully we get some great ones
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growing. Next ones are patunia and
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leilia. Great for baskets and pots and
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spreading and making absolutely gorgeous
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color. Have a try. See if you can get
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some growing. We're giving it a try.
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They might not be successful, but we're
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going to give it a try anyway. Next up
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are aas. Another great flower to add to
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any garden. Salvia. You can grow some
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varieties from seed. Get some growing
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and it could come back year after year.
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We're going to try some salvia, some red
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ones this year. So, we've sewn some. So,
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hopefully we'll get some great color
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from them. Next up are stocks. Another
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great flower to add to the garden. What
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can you plant straight into the garden
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at this time of year? You can plant your
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gladiolas, corns, they can be planted,
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they'll come back year after year, but
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protect them over winter because frost
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can damage them. So you can either dig
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them up or cover them over to make sure
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that they don't get frost bitten. Next
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up are daily tubers. So if you are
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growing them from tubers, you can plant
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them straight out in the ground if the
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frost is not around. Make sure they are
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protected from the frost because that
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can damage them. So you might want to
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grow them in pots first, then when the
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chance of frost has passed, plant them
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outdoors. Next up are lily bulbs. Now
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they can be planted straight in the
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ground. Now you can plant them in, get
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them growing and get some beautiful
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liies growing. And again, the cut and
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come cut flowers so you can have them in
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your vasees as well. And next up is
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crocosmia. This is the last one. Again,
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a great addition to the garden. We've
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got some for this year. We've got some
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red and yellow ones. So hopefully
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they'll look absolutely gorgeous come
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summertime. So those are all the flowers
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you can sew in April. Make sure you save
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this video, share it to anybody that
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knows about growing flowers. Until next
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time everyone, remember, keep smiling,
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keep shining, and keep gardening. The
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battle.
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