Please share with me your easy self-seeding flower recommendations!

[DarlingCoffee]

I’m looking to add some more plants to my garden but would love to grow more plants that self seed and naturalise. We have fairly heavy clay soil in our garden:

please can you share which varieties have worked well for you?

many thanks!

Again on clay: Early Dog Violet, forget-me-not , Malva moschata,Crimson clover, Welsh Poppy, Foxglove, Euphorbia mellifera, harebell on the paved terrace.

I am on clay, although it's improved a bit over the years as I let all the leaves from my trees lie on it and rot down! My self seeders are love in a mist, foxgloves, forget me not, marigolds, verbena bonarensis (I have literally hoed up thousands of seedlings this week as it takes over), toadflax, marigolds, poppies, aquilegia and eringium. Plus teasles if I let them, red campion and ox eye daisy's. And the lambs ear just spreads and spreads it's a prolific self seeder here and I love the silver backdrop and the bees go wild for it!

And the rudbeckia has loved the damp spring and spread loads. Over recent hot summers it has really struggled. Not So much this year!!!

Why won't forget-me-nots and verbena self seed for me??😔

In my very challenging garden: yellow poppies, Aquilegia, Primulas and "fox and cubs" which might be a weed but I like it..all doing well.

Regarding verbena bonariensis, I struggle with it self seeding on my heavy clay but it takes really well from cuttings. I normally take lots and lots of cuttings from it around September time and leave them in the unheated greenhouse over winter. Mainly it's an insurance strategy in case the plants in the border don't survive the winter I have other ones I can plant out to replace them with.

I mulch my heavy clay with sawdust and grass cuttings. Love in a mist foxgloves ox eye daisy wild carrot opium poppies all pop through

My Mil gave me a Shoo Fly plant about 10 years ago . It self seeded and now I have them everywhere . Beautiful colour and the seeds are in lovely lanterns so look great in the garden in the late autumn too

Nigella! I bought just one packet the summer before last. My garden is a cloudy lovely mass of them at the moment. And they are easy to weed away if they get in the wrong places or just become too keen (unlike flaming grape hyacinths, which are a clumpy pain).

Also, the pepper-shaker character of their seedheads makes them easy and fun to distribute through the garden. Excellent job for a small child gardener.

Campanula & Erigeron.

Oh, and forget me nots in spring. They knit everything else together.

I have lots of the flowers already mentioned but also have Cornflowers, Godetia, Corncockle, Lambada, Scabiosa, Archillea and Clary sage which all self seed. Sprinkle grass (Panicum elegans) reseeds and adds pretty foliage to the garden.