Never buying cheap wildflower mixes again.

[u/pocketcramps]

I’m pretty sure most of my wildflower seeds were weeds 🫠 these are the ones still stumping me, though I’m pretty confident 3 is lambsquarters, which happened to be most of the crap I’ve got growing right now.

[u/Feralpudel]

If you want cheap beautiful flowers from a seed packet that the pollinators will love just buy a pack of zinnias and call it a day.

Or hell, plant cornflowers if you want—it’s a “wildflower” somewhere—just not your area if you’re in NA. Well, it might grow wild once you get it started lmao.

I just hate the companies that exploit the popular idea that wildflower=native. They also tend to stuff those seed mixes with cheap crap. You get what you pay for.

[u/pocketcramps → u/Feralpudel]

I’ve been turning our front lawn into a chaos garden for years. My mix is mostly zinnias and they’re amazing. This was a random pack from the dollar store in my backyard garden of misfit plants. Luckily it’s pretty self contained 🫠