This year my new approach to growing my floral garden is firmly based on combining seedlings.
Each mix is based on three cultivars of plants that I think will ultimately look gorgeous together. Importantly no container has the same amount of seedlings, as when I plant out in early June I really want to create an informal planting style.
This batch has been growing on for a fortnight.
Tithonia Torch, Chrysanthemum Rainbow Hippy Love Child, and Amaranthus Love lies bleeding has a week or so to go, before I prick them out into their mixed containers.
I then decided to mix seeds right from the outset. I am hoping that through missing out the pricking out stage will not be my horticultural downfall.
However, when it comes to the confectionery version of “pick and mix ” there can only ever be one combination – chocolate covered raisins and pear drops ( in my opinion anyway).
Sally Wicks 
At least the plants wont damage your teeth.
Happy growing.xxx
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What? That seems like too much work. What if one types grows faster than the others, and crowds the others out? It seems like it would be more practical to grow them separately and then put them together in the garden.
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So far, it’s working out, I choose the seeds initially as I wanted to create a garden where plants will be growing through each other, and some will hopefully act as supports for others, I have grown Verbena , Sunflowers and Amaranthus to provide the support, and the rest are in fillers – I think it will work, I will just have to wait, and see, and write a blog about it later on !
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Oh, it will likely work. It just seems like more work than doing it in the conventional manner.
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Because it’s for my own garden, convention goes out of the window !
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