Sowing wildflower seeds.

When is the best time to sow wildflower seeds? In the autumn, when the plants are doing it naturally or in the spring? Or does it not really matter?

 

I think it depends on what they are, but I don't know much about wild flowers.
I think it's mostly a very early spring thing with the preparation of the ground going on right now.

 

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• Sowing season is generally from March - October, with wildflowers blooming 60-80 days after they've been sown. Sowing in early spring (March / April) will give you a showing of the annuals in your mix in summer, and sowing in early autumn (September / October) will help them in appear in early spring.

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How to Sow Wildflower Seed & Aftercare - The Grass People

 

Then there is this: Autumn is the best time to sow wildflower seeds as this will give you the earliest display of wildflowers. However, wildflower seeds can be sown throughout the year with bloom usually taking place after 60-80 days. It may be the case that the first bloom may be after the first winter of the seeds being in the soil. Also from the Grass People. The plants themselves sow them in Autumn hence my question. I have sown some gathered Lupin seeds and they have germinated and doing well so far.

 

Although sowing wildflower seeds – in autumn September / October, or in spring April / May. , you can technically sow wildflower seeds any time of year

 

If you sow them now, as Nature intended, the attrition rate will be high and only a few will escape birds etc to germinate in Spring. If you wait, likely more will result . Competition is one of the greatest problems, especially amongst grasses. The "traditional" meadow results from grazing, where the herbivores moderate the amount of cover and impart fertility together with seeds picked up and egested, widely and randomly. A pattern you may find difficult to replicate.