10 Best Flowering Shrubs for Your Yard

 You can sow 10 flower seeds directly outside

Filling your garden with lots of beautiful flowers is as simple as scattering seeds in the ground in the spring. It's really that easy. Select a sunny spot, adjust the soil with compost, plant your seeds according to the packet directions, water and leave. It is much more economical to start with flowers and other decorative items from seed than to buy starter plants and floors from the plant nursery every year.

Many annual flowers that grow well from seed are self-seeding - once purchased and planted, they will come back again and again. There are many different types of cultivation to choose from in seed lists. Growing from seed opens the door to the most unusual and enchanting varieties that are not commonly available as plugs from the center of the garden.

Choose one of the anniversaries that will host the prestigious show in their first (and only) year. Or perennial fruits that bloom for two years. Choosing a combination of annual and perennial fruits, your gardens will always be in bloom. Here we have collected easy flower seeds for sowing directly in your garden.

These silly, start-up, brown thumb-friendly flowering plants are hardy, low maintenance, and often trouble-free, establishing themselves instantly in your garden in a couple of seasons.

1. Columbine (Aquilegia spp.)

Columbine is a large species of flowering plant found in grasslands and forests throughout the Northern Hemisphere.

There are over 70 varieties of Columbine, and there are near as many hybrids and crosses, giving gardeners a wide choice of colors and floral patterns. Classic Columbine is a hardy, shrubby, cluster-forming perennial that blooms in late spring with beautiful bell-shaped flowers. Columbine is easily identified by its five elongated petals called spurs, which shape the flower into a star.

2. Pansy (Viola spp)

Pansies are adorable low-growing flowers with happy little faces. Violas are a large family of flowering plants found all over the world. There are hundreds of species in the genus, and there are numerous hybrids and varieties to study in every color (or multiple colors) of the rainbow.

3. Lupine (Lupine spp.)

The lupines in the flower wrap the garden with colorful Spiers that begin in late spring and are a feast for the eyes. The majestic and erect flower spikes, reaching up to 4 feet in height, are not to be missed. Rising above the leaves, the racemes are densely packed with small and delicate clamshell flowers in white, pink, yellow, red, blue, purple,, both.

4. Sweet Pea (Lathyrus odoratus)

Sweet pea is an intensely fragrant annual flower with elegant wings and lush flowers that come in all colors except yellow.

The flowers are as good as the cut flowers. Again a cut and cum-cane pattern, the more sweet pea flowers you pick the more they will bloom. And as a legume, the plant itself fixes a small amount of nitrogen. The cross-barbed tapestry and wigwams spread with their twinning tendrils, and the sweet pea vines climb on any support nearby. Without a texture, sweet peas will form beautiful shrub mounds.

5. Poppy (Poppy spp.)

Poppies are hardy annuals or perennial wildflowers that need to be planted only once. Once established, the poppies are self-seeding and spread in the garden each year. Field poppy (P. rhoeas) is famous for its paper scarlet petals with dark spots at its center. Oriental poppy (P. orientale) is another great choice, available in shades of pink, orange, purple, and white. Prussite poppy (P. somniferum) produces breathable maw flowers with edible poppy seeds.

There are also California poppy, Icelandic poppy, Spanish poppy, Moroccan poppy, and Welsh poppy - truly a smorgasbord of poppy options.