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Flower Seed Planting Guide for Temperate Zones of Australia

Updated: Feb 13, 2023

Spring

Achillea filipendulina Hella Glashoff, Cloth of Gold, Credo

Balm of Gilead - Cedronella canariensis (warmer areas - any time of the year)

Bells of Ireland - Moluccella laevis

Billy Buttons - Pycnosorus globosus

Crimson Clover - Trifolium incarnatum (cool areas)

Cypress Vine (White) - Ipomoea quamoclit

Daylily

Fairy or Angel's Fishing Rod - Dierama pulcherrimum Pale Pink

Gaillardia x grandiflora - Blanket Flower 'Mesa Yellow', 'Mesa Red'

Hellebore (Helleborus x hybridus) (seeds need to be cold stratified for 6 weeks before sowing)

Linaria purpurea - Toadflax

Monarda didyma - Bee Balm - Blue Stocking (seeds need to be cold stratified for three months before sowing)

Moonvine / Moonflower - Ipomoea alba

Morning Glory - 'Scarlett O'Hara', 'Akahigezaki', 'Murasakihigezaki'

Pansy

Orlaya grandiflora (warm areas)

Lupins - Russel Lupin, Pixie Delight Lupin - Lupinus hartwegii nanus (warm and cool temperate areas)

Scabiosa atropurpurea - Sweet Scabious - Mauve, Pink, Lilac, Yellow, Blue, Beaujolais Bonnets, Black Knight, Mixed

Strawflower (warm areas)

Viola

Wormwood - Artemisia absinthium

Spring / Summer

Cotton - Gossypium herbaceum

Moonvine / Moonflower - Ipomoea alba

Obedient Plant Seeds - Physostegia Virginiana - Pink, White

Summer

Autumn

Achillea filipendulina Hella Glashoff, Cloth of Gold, Credo

Astrantia Hadspen Blood

Bells of Ireland - Moluccella laevis

Blue Marguerite Daisy - Felicia amelloides

Crimson Clover - Trifolium incarnatum (warm areas)

Digitalis lanata - Woolly Foxglove or Grecian Foxglove

Fairy or Angel's Fishing Rod - Dierama pulcherrimum Pale Pink

Hellebore (Helleborus x hybridus)

Hollyhock - Alcea ficifolia - Red, Crimson, Deep Pink, Soft Pink, Mix

Larkspur

Monarda didyma - Bee Balm - Blue Stocking (for warmer areas, seeds need to be cold stratified for three months before sowing)

Orlaya grandiflora (warm and cold areas)

Pansy

Rose Campion - Lychnis coronaria - Pink

Lupins - Russel Lupin, Pixie Delight Lupin - Lupinus hartwegii nanus (warm and cool temperate areas)

Scabiosa atropurpurea - Sweet Scabious - Mauve, Pink, Lilac, Yellow, Blue, Beaujolais Bonnets, Black Knight, Mixed

Scabiosa caucasica - Blue, White

Symphyotrichum (syn. Aster) novi-belgii Mauve & Alba

Thalictrum aquilegifolium Purpureum, Alba

Viola

Winter

Bells of Ireland - Moluccella laevis

Monarda didyma - Bee Balm - Blue Stocking (for warmer areas, seeds need to be cold stratified for three months before sowing)



by Iain Dawson (Horticultural Research Unit, ANBG)




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