Seeding List

Written By Helen Reed

Cartref Gardens for the Peninsula Garden Club

Planning what to plant and when can feel like a bit of a guessing game, especially with changing weather and different growing conditions from year to year. That’s where our seed list comes in. Designed as a practical guide for local gardeners, it helps you time your seeding for the best possible success, so you can enjoy stronger plants, better harvests, and a more rewarding growing season.

Seeds to start in January

  • Dahlia seeds

Seeds to start in mid to late February

  • Aquilegia/Columbine

  • Antirrhinum/Snapdragons

  • Bachelor’s buttons

  • Bupleurum

  • Calendula

  • Campanula

  • Carnation

  • Clarkia

  • Cleome

  • Cobea/Cup and Saucer Vine

  • Consolida/Larkspur

  • Daucus

  • Delphinium

  • Dianthus - Amazon Neon

  • Digitalis/Foxglove

  • Dusty Miller

  • Forget me not - Chinese

  • Godetia

  • Hesperis matronalis/Sweet rocket

  • Lathyrus/Sweet peas

  • Limonium/Statice

  • Matricaria/Feverfew

  • Matthiola/Stock

  • Mollucella/Bells of Ireland

  • Nigella

  • Papaver Nudicale/Icelandic poppies

  • Orlaya

  • Rudbeckia

  • Scabiosa

  • Sweet William

Seeds you can direct sow in fall/winter

  • Consolida/Larkspur

  • Bachelor’s buttons

  • Ammi majus

  • Nigella

  • Bupleurum

  • Bells of Ireland

  • Sweet peas into pots

  • Icelandic poppies into pots

Sources for Seeds

  • Stems flower farm in Ontario

  • Johnny’s Seeds

  • Floret

  • Westcoast seeds

  • Renee’s Garden

Seed sowing supplies

  • Buckerfields

  • Dig This

  • Integrity Sales

  • Home Hardware

 
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