A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2003 Flowers that reseed

Just curious what flowers have reseeded in your garden this year. My most prolific reseeder this year is echinacea or purple coneflower. They're showing up everywhere! I dug up 10 seedlings and planted them in pots to plant elsewhere this fall. Other flowers to reseed this year are california poppies, several types of rudbeckia, breadseed poppies, bachelor buttons, coreopsis, four o'clocks, celosia, morning glories and portulaca to name a few. For the most part I usually leave them wherever they happen to pop up unless it's just too crowded.

lesson i learned 10 annuals ya plant once
calendula
cosmos
sunflower
larkspur
love in a mist
MG
poppy
sweet assylum
nasturtim
flowering tobacco


I agree with 4 pms have some down almost 100 ft of fence and a few yellows in them too when go dormat will be thinning the tubers and spreading out in yard
hear spider flower/cleome is 1st yr to grow both kinds...queen& sparkler.prefer sparkler.
assylum can now find all over yard.did not just stay where i planted& don't care for it.a large bed of iris will grow like mad too new growth on tubers plus seeds falling out

Alan,

I have about 400 cones but i haven't had any problem with them reseeding because i had a thick layer of mulch. They just can't grow thru the mulch;also, i don't let the dead flowers seed to the ground. I deadhead them and throw them on the burn pile. I might leave some in the fall for the birds though...

The flowers that have reseeded themselves for me would be :
1) Black-eyed Susans
2) Cleome
3) Yarrow

None of them have been a pest yet. I did spray some yarrow with round- up at the beginning of the season because it was beginning to wonder a bit, but it was multiplying from the roots, not from seed.

I have a lot of flowers that have reseeded or propagated. Here are some of those whose names I know:

black-eyed susan
forget-me-nots
assylium
four-o-clocks
phlox
monarda
daylilies
daisy
gladiolus
astilbes
baloon flower
dianthus
columbines
lily of the valley
gaillardia
cranesbill (hardy geraniums)
snapdragons
violets

I love mother natures little babies,
And they seem to be alot more hardier
than the parent plant I planted!!
Adapt and conquer is their motto!

I have:
Purple coneflower
black~eyed~susans
spirea
columbines
zebrina
snapdragons
johnny~jump~ups
queen Anne's lace
pulminaria's
phlox
dames rocket
asters
morning glories
daisy's
lupine's
verbena
verbascum's
coreoptris
lychnis
borage
pansy's
forget~me~nots
veronica
trollisus
jacob's ladder
walking or nodding onions
snow drops
Hollyhock's
sweetpeas
sweetflag iris
mountain bluet
calendula
cleomes
But my top reseeder is:
TOMATOES seeds!!!!!!!!

Weezie

sunflowers tomatoes and morningglories have my vote for top seeders i had some pansies come back too, and you are right they do seem to come back healthier and stronger the next year, oh and i also have pumpkins, summer squash and onions that came back. i found out that if you plant green onion seeds in the fall they will come up right away in the spring.

I forgot about the squash, pumpkin and watermelon seeds, etc. and my tomato plants, from my compost bins..........................
They over winter and sprout inside the bin come spring, I pull them out and repot, they can be tricky as that time of year is cold for them and being in the bins they're light sensitive. But I've gotten reasonably good at saving them.
Those new little greenhouses my mom and I got will be the little trick I think that will save more of them this coming year.

Also,that is why I never put in weed seeds or roots into my compost bins... Cause they survive...
seems no matter how hot it gets

I have read about the seeds that plant themselves from the momma plant are suppose to be able to adapt themselves to their surroundings, something genetic or something or other. Which makes them hardier than the momma....
Weezie

i also heard that chamomile is supposed to reseed, i hope it does, i planted some in my sunflower house this year for the first time, my luck it won't because i want it too.