Wildflower Seeds

Wildflower Seeds for Planting: Easy Color for Meadows, Slopes, and Wet Corners

Few gardening projects deliver as much color for as little effort as a wildflower patch. Our collection of wildflower seeds offers three annual mixes, each blended for a different kind of ground, so you can fill a sunny bed, a dry slope, or a damp corner with blooms that draw bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects. They're open-pollinated and non-GMO, direct-sown, and cold tolerant, which makes them a forgiving first project for new gardeners and a low-fuss way to turn bare ground into habitat.

Wildflower Seed Mixes: Meadow, Upland, and Lowland

The right mix starts with your site. Meadow Wildflower Mix is the classic, a mixed-color blend for sunny, open beds and borders. Upland Wildflower Mix is selected for drier, well-drained conditions, which makes it a good fit for slopes, sunny dry borders, and spots that get less rainfall than the rest of the garden. Lowland Wildflower Mix goes the other way, blended for moist ground near streams and lake edges, open woodland, wet meadows, and erosion-prone banks. All three are annuals that want full sun, and the Upland and Lowland mixes typically reach one to three feet tall, so plan them toward the back of a bed or as a free-standing swath. Matching the mix to your moisture level matters more than any other choice you'll make, so look at the spot first and the seed packet second.

Wildflower Seed Planting: Sow in Place and Let Them Fill In

These mixes are direct-sown, and cold tolerance means you don't have to wait for warm weather. Sow once the soil can be worked in spring, when soil temperatures in the 55 to 70°F range suit germination, and expect seedlings in one to three weeks. Most listings in this collection show 76 to 90 days to maturity, so blooms arrive in the heart of summer and carry on through fall. Sowing a second patch a few weeks after the first stretches the show, and it's a good way to keep color going while earlier plantings finish. The Seedtime garden planning software builds a planting calendar around your frost dates so you can sow at the right time, and the layout planner helps you map out where a meadow strip fits alongside your vegetable beds.

Buy Wildflower Seeds Online with One Shipping Charge

When you buy wildflower seeds online here, you can add seeds from multiple suppliers to the same order and pay one flat shipping charge, or qualify for free standard shipping on Seedtime-fulfilled orders of $49 or more to the lower 48 states. Paid Seedtime members get 20% off seed packets marked "Fulfilled by Seedtime" and 5% off everything else in the store. You can start planning for free, and if you want unlimited calendars and layouts along with those store discounts, compare Seedtime's plans to find the right fit. Whether you want a single packet of wildflower seeds for sale for a small border or all three mixes for a larger planting, it all ships together.