Raising Plants from Seed - sow now or Spring or greenhouse?

 

During the 'Summer' I collected many wildflower seeds and want to sow them
to raise hardy perennial wildflower plants for my garden.

I could either sow in trays:

- outdoors in the autumn and plant out in the Spring.  But friends have
found that for some reason the plants disappear over the winter
- sow outdoors in the Spring.  Plants get away well but are not big enough
for planting out and surviving amongst grass etc until the next Spring
- sow in autumn and keep in a greenhouse through the winter and plant out in
spring

It is this last option that I would appreciate advice on. Is it likely to be
successful?

thanks

Davy

 



If they are seeds of wild flowers naturally found in Britain, go outdoors
now and throw the seeds where you want them. They'll know what to do.

Steve

 



these are wildflowers to go into grass so most species cannot just be
scattered into the grass since, even if they germinated, they would be
smothered by the grass.
Davy

 

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:21:06 +0100, "Davy"



Even the best empty areas can fail too - a load of seeds I'd put on
wasteland came up and did really well until it started raining solidly
- they mostly drowned.
The remaining ones which flowered were picked by a dog walker who took
them home for his wife :)
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Most wild flowers grow happily amongst grass, in meadows, riverbanks,
hedgerows etc. They are all complimentary to each other.

What plants are we talking about?

Steve