How to Grow from Seed: Cultivating the Roots of Sustainable Gardening
Welcome to the iGrowHort guide on growing from seed—your first step toward mastering the art of gardening, rewilding, and ecological land stewardship.
Here, you’ll find practical tips, tried-and-tested techniques, and expert advice designed to help beginners and seasoned gardeners. Explore topics like selecting the right seeds, preparing soil and containers, understanding germination requirements, and managing common challenges—all with the iGrowHort emphasis on ecological responsibility.
Let’s sow the seeds of change together—one garden, one seed at a time. 🌱
How to Collect, Clean, and Store Native Plant Seeds for future generations and local seed diverstiy. I have loved collecting seeds with memories of hedgerows full of native blooms and berries. Seeds are a great gift and a meaningful reminder of new life and regeneration. Enjoy my guide to collecting, storing, and conserving native plant […]
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Direct Sowing Native Seeds at Home Direct sowing native seeds at home, is an easy solution to incorporating local or regionally native flowers to your existing garden or even starting a wild garden from scratch. Many perennials and annuals can benefit from being sown directly on a prepared seed-bed. Requiring little preparation and limited aftercare,
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Native Buttonbush or Cephalanthus occidentalis is a wonderful pollinator plant for any garden, the hardy shrub needs very little aftercare as long as certain criteria are met. Often included as the structural part of a rain garden planting design, the shrubby plant is a long flowering woody perennial that reaches over 6ft if left unpruned.
Blue Sea Holly – How to Sow, Grow and Enjoy 5 of the Best Eryngium for Full-Sun Gardens. Blue Sea Holly is a striking, architectural, often silverized annual or short-lived perennial thistle you will want to grow from seed. Often seed in designer gardens, blue sea holly brings a bold dramatic effect to any garden.
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Echinacea Coneflower is a native wildflower, at home in the garden or meadow, and known as one of the top ten native pollinator plants to grow from seed at home.
Lavender Hyssop Agastache Native Wild Flower Herb Garden Pollinator Plants to Grow at Home Agastache Lavender Hyssop a native wildflower, at home in the herb garden and known as one of the top ten native pollinator plants to grow from seed at home. Fill your garden with wildlife by growing these anise-scented pollinator magnet perennials
Mexican Sunflowers – How to Sow, Grow and Enjoy these Fun Fast Growing Summertime Annual. Masses of bright orange, red or yellow sunflowers from the fast growing mexican native perennial or frost tender annual. Hard to believe that by simply sowing a few of these Tithonia rotundifolia Orange Mexican Sunflowers in spring you can create
Learn to Grow Seeds at Home – A Life-Lesson in Gratitude Why grow your own plants from seed? Growing plants from seeds is a great way to fill a garden on a budget. You’re spoiled for choice compared to local garden centers or box stores with a limited selection of plants. Plus, glossy magazines promise such beautiful blooms
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