For the Birds Flower Mix | Various Species
Flowers for you, seeds for the birds.
Flowers feed our souls. But they also feed many other creatures: they provide nectar to bees, and their seedheads yield food for our avian relatives. This mix of annuals should not be deadheaded; the seed heads produced after the flowers fade are a buffet for birds of all kinds, an array of sustaining flavors and textures that beckon them from the perimeter of your garden. Their swoops and dives as they harvest are a dance of thanks for your generosity. Gardening as a hobby? It's for the birds, literally!
Contains Dwarf Sunflower, Partridge Pea, Phlox, Blue Flax, Gayfeather, Shasta Daisy, Prairie Coneflower, and Black-Eyed Susan.
500 seeds sow a 3'x10' garden plot.
Direct sow in early spring after last frost date. Broadcast evenly into a well prepared, weed-free bed. Packet covers an area approximately 30'x30' in size. Rake in lightly, and keep watered until germination. When seedlings set true leaves, thin to 12-18" apart. This mix contains a combination of perennials and self-sowing annuals. Some varieties will bloom the first year; the full mix will appear in the second year.
Days to Germination 5 - 25 days
Days to Maturity 365 days
Planting Depth 0-1/4"
Spacing in Row 18"
Spacing Between Rows 18"
Height at Maturity 10-24"
Width at Maturity 12"
Sun Preference Full Sun
Artwork by The Foliage Library. Created by Matt Holbein and Emily Brooks, The Foliage Library promotes environmental and botanical education through illustrated geometric folding books with forms that relate conceptually to their content, much like these happy birds unfolding from our quatrefoil pack.
About Hudson Valley Seed Company
They are a values-driven seed company that practices and celebrates responsible seed production and stewardship. Hudson Valley are best known for their beautiful artist-design seed packs (Art Packs) that appeal to gardeners, gift buyers, and lovers of art and nature.
These Art Packs, most fundamentally, tell stories. Hudson Valley challenges artists to convey in a manner that is fully their own, the history and meaning of the seed variety contained in each pack. These stories were once integral to traditional societies-stories of seeds were often origin stories for entire communities and peoples, and the lore and beliefs that accumulated around seed varieties reflected the nearly familial way in which gardeners and farmers regarded their crops. Our society is, by and large, no longer connected to plants this way. But we like to think these Art Packs help to stitch our fragmented world back together: useful seeds, evocative art, both equally valuable to our experience of being human.