09/12/2026
If you’re wanting to add a boost of colour and pollinator food to your garden, now’s the time to do one simple thing that’ll kill two birds with one stone (metaphorically! don’t actually kill any birds, please).
Add some native wildflowers to your backyard!
🌼 Sowing native wildflower seeds at the end of summer into early autumn will have them sprouting the following spring and summer.
Our native plants naturally
🌺 drop
🌺 fling
🌺 or air drift
their seeds before winter arrives.
🥀 They don’t do any prep, they simply let nature take its course.
🥀 The seeds naturally stratify with the cold and wet of winter, readying themselves for the warmth to come.
🥀 Plus, since they're native, they don’t need special attention, and will self seed, perpetuating and expanding your garden once mature.
Remember, when you sow the seeds
🌺 lightly scruffle a little soil over the seeds to hide them from birds.
🌺 Very lightly, mind you, you don’t want to smother them, and some need the sunlight.
🥀 where you sowed them.
🥀 If you don’t, you may very well w**d the sprouts out only to wonder what happened to all of the flowers that were supposed to grow. (I do this every year!)
