Meadow Mix Seed Shakers (Direct Ship)

NEW! Shake and sow your way to a beautiful meadow of wildflowers! Each shaker includes a variety of wildflower seeds and covers up to 100 square feet. Choose from:

• Bee Friendly Meadow Mix – includes up to 18 annual and perennial varieties and can contain the following: baby blue eyes, bergamot, blue flax, California poppy, China aster, Chinese forget-me-not, corn poppy, firewheel, fleabane daisy, globe gilia, lance-leaved coreopsis, New England aster, purple coneflower, purple giant hyssop, Siberian wallflower, sweet alyssum, tidy tips.
• Bird Lover’s Meadow Mix – includes up to 21 annual and perennial varieties and can contain the following: black-eyed Susan, brown-eyed Susan, blue flax, California poppy, cornflower, firewheel, four o’clocks, gayfeather, lance-leaved coreopsis, New England aster, Pacific beauty calendula, partridge pea, plains coreopsis, prairie clover, prairie coneflower, purple coneflower, red phlox, Shasta daisy, sulphur cosmos, sweet William, wild sunflower.
• Colorscape Meadow Mix – includes up to 13 annual varieties and can contain the following: black-eyed Susan, California poppy, candytuft, Chinese forget-me-not, classic zinnia, deep carmine baby’s breath, French marigold, lilac godetia, love in a mist, Persian carpet zinnia, pixie delight lupine, red corn poppy, sweet alyssum.
• Shady Meadow Mix – includes up to 18 annual and perennial varieties of shade-tolerant flowers and can contain the following: annual candytuft, baby blue eyes, baby’s breath, Chinese forget-me-not, Chinese houses, clarkia, corn poppy, dwarf columbine, forget-me-not, Johnny jump up, lance-leaved coreopsis, McKana giants columbine, purple coneflower, rocket larkspur, Shasta daisy, spurred snapdragon, sweet William, tussock bellflower.

Sow your wildflower patch in early to mid-spring. Mixes including perennial varieties can also be sown in late fall; however, only the perennial seeds in the mix may establish enough to overwinter and grow the following spring. Perennial varieties in these mixes are generally hardy in zones 3-9.

Planting and growing instructions:

• To prepare the soil: remove all weeds, aerate the soil with a garden fork if compacted, then rake flat.
• Open the spout of the seed shaker and spread seeds evenly over the area up to 100 square feet.
• Then press seeds into the soil by walking over the planted area with smooth-soled shoes or by using a board to tamp them down.
• Water the seeds in gently if the soil is dry, taking care not to dislodge the seeds from the soil.
• If sowing in spring, continue watering for a few weeks; if sowing in fall you likely will not need to water in spring if there was enough rain or snow over the winter.
• Weed regularly until plants grow to 12″-18″ tall.

Note: This product listing is for direct ship items. These items ship via U.S. mail separately from bulbs and there is a flat-rate shipping charge of $8.00 per order. If you order any other non-bulb items at the same time, you will only pay the $8.00 shipping charge once. Any amount of flower bulbs ordered at the same time will incur a separate $10.00 flat-rate shipping charge per order. If you are supporting a fundraiser that includes pickup items and wish to order for local pickup in New England, please return to the fundraiser’s landing page, look for the same products with “local pickup” in the name and order from that product listing instead.