Flower seeds for the lazy and useless

[2020times]

The garden has raised beds with soil (don't know what kind but it seems dry and crusty like)

I'm awful at gardening but I'm also really lazy. Are there any flower seeds I could almost just throw into the soil that would have a chance of growing ?

It's a bit late in the year but I would say poppies will grow great there. Poppy seeds grow in disturbed soils, hence they grow in ploughed fields. so rough the soil when you have spread them on.

Bee Bombs! Chucked some down last autumn and they've just started flowering. The poppies have come out first.

You will almost certainly have to water, whatever you put in

Rather than seeds I would just go and buy a few herbs/plants that tolerate dry soil.

Lavender, rosemary, thyme, marjoram and Sweet Williams (Dianthus) and Salvia can all be planted and pretty much left alone year on year other than watering.

Sunflowers, marigolds, nasturtiums

Hardy Geraniums, (cranesbill) grow pretty much anywhere and need a minimum of care. . Large variety, flower most of the year and other gardeners possible will have some to give away. They like spreading!

Thank you so much!

(I'm really impressed by everyone on the gardening board, it's amazing what you all know)

The traditional way to start children with gardening was with a packet of "mixed annuals" (usually labelled "sow and forget"), and that would work well next year. Things like poppies, Eschscholtzia, love-in-a-mist, cornflower, Clarkia. But the trouble with annual is that if they are to grow and flower the same year, they really have to get a move on and start quite early - you usually sow in May.

Poppy seeds grow in disturbed soils, hence they grow in ploughed fields. so rough the soil when you have spread them on. No need to rough the soil. They grow in ploughed fields because they are brought to the surface by the plough and triggered into germination by the light; the reason they have been brought to the surface is that the soil has been disturbed, by plough or pigs, and therefore there will be no established plants and no competition. So if you have an already bare bed and you scatter the seeds on top, there's no reason to rough the soil (unless the soil has been really compacted).