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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When buying these kind of seeds pay attention to labels saying whether they're annual, perennial or multi season etc.

Both are fine, but just to avoid the disappointment of thinking your project failed when the flowers don't come again the following year.

Annual flowers are usually a lot cheaper, so you can easily reseeed every year until you have established a more self sustainable garden.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you have a large enough area, the wild flowers should reseed themselves.

They reseed themselves in the wild. They’re wildflowers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes but not as many as the first year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

If annuals are in an appropriate / native habitat, invasive species aren’t making life hard for them, and they have the right amount of space, they should not decline in population year over year. If they did, they’d be extinct in the wild.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Unless you are wildly out of their preferred environment, not really.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

At first glance I was convinced that these were either coffee beans or popcorn

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you can you might try and find a local native mix, or if you have the time, right now is about when you would go collect seed for the spring annuals in the n. hemisphere. Neither of those are native to your area and there are animals dependent on native species going hungry.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I thought these were like a sunflower seed snack alternative and was curious about hummingbird flavor.