Have you already killed the grass?

And I'll also rototill these areas.

What I'm planning on doing is purchasing a wildflower seed mix such as this one.


https://www.americanmeadows.com/product/wildflower-seeds/fragrant-wildflower-seed-mix

If you plant now, I think you will lose the annuals

Btw farm and fleet sells wildflower/ zinnia packs each spring with fertilizer around each seed, they work great and were pretty inexpensive

Had a good experience with them. Lots of talking about different locations and soil conditions. Tons of info.

https://www.americanmeadows.com/

Maybe I'm overthinking this. I'm guessing that the perennials in the mix will be fine getting planted as soon as possible. What I'm worrying about (maybe needlessly) is the annuals blooming if I plant them right now and then not coming back next year. (Hey, I'm totally stupid when it comes to growing plants).

Like poppies and coneflowers,, mums,asters Silvia, phlox, Rebecca (brown eyed susans,)Susan's,, daisy'ssweet william and 4 oclocks . Many of these are in the mix but the annuals in the mix won't make it through the winter. But if you want a head start huy individual packets of the perennials and scatter the seeds where you want t h em to grow then in the spro g add the mix.


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You can put in a bunch of tulips and daffodils now and put in your seed around them in the spring. The seedlings will come up as the leaves die down from the tulips and daffodils. Don't cut the leaves because that is what makes the new bulb for the next year. You can cut the stem and dead over off though

how do people think native annuals survive winter? however not knowing your location it is hard to say WHEN in the fall. if you are in the desert where we sometimes have winter moisture I would wait until around thanksgiving or a little before.

if in doubt buy extra and try several plantings. birds (and ants/rodents) often take a lot of the seed anyway.

I'm a botanist and a Master Gardener. It all depends on where you are.

Here in the southeast, we plant native trees and shrubs in the fall.

I'm a botanist and Master Gardener in the southeast.

We plant our trees and shrubs in the fall.

Seeds that need cold stratification can be planted in the fall.

(Now all of my neighbors are gonna' know I'm one of them libruls - if they haven't figured it out already).

Silly question....
Wont the seeds decide when to sprout?