Direct Sow Seeds To Flower This Summer

[GloiredeDijon]

Any and all suggestions welcome please for seeds to sow now for summer flowers in pink/ blue / lilac / purple shades.

Nigella always work for me. They come in all sorts of colours. cornflower. Lychnis will self seed. Toadflax is good and will self seed.

I second nigella - and if it likes your garden it will self seed happily. I love the mixture of the blue with some white ones with a dark centre.

Cornflower and larkspur would fit your bill.
Alchemilla mollis will give a good green backdrop to your other plants too.

Another good direct sow flower but for spring not summer is forget me.

Frothy clouds of flowers in spring that will come back forever.

Oh, if you have room you can buy sweet peas seed mixes that will give you the colours you like and some height too up a trellis or poles.

Thank you all.

Just ordered some larkspur seeds, and how can I have not thought of nigella?!

Already have sweetpeas on a trellis elsewhere in the garden.

Also lots of forget me nots, love them.

I didn’t realise lychnis will self seed.

Alchemilla I am a bit wary of having had it take over in a previous garden but I do love when you get rain drops sitting in the leaves like little jewels.

Can anybody think of fairly short flowers in these shades please?

I have bare space around some roses which I would like to underplant.

Salvias go well around roses and are often used to underplant.

I also recommend scabious, very easy to grow and come in a wonderful range of blues, pinks and purples. Bees love them too. Phacelia is another, but it can get quite big.

I have never managed to grow it from seed, but I love Echinops.

I will try Scabious or Salvias, thanks everybody.