One of the benefits of direct sowing versus starting seeds indoors when growing flowers is that autumn seed planting can allow for automatic stratification.

In autumn, many perennials, trees and shrubs come into their own, offering flowers, fiery autumn foliage or brightly ... Autumn is when many euonymus come into their own, with spectacular foliage and ...

Decreasing light levels mean late sown vegetables won't flower ... from the autumn right through into February, providing the ground is not too hard or waterlogged. If you plant seed potatoes ...

There are lots of hardy plants that will burst into colour from March through to May in your garden, but they need to be ...

Sweet peas can be sown in autumn or spring, with autumn-sown sweet peas flowering much earlier than spring-sown ones. Find out more about growing sweet peas from seed. These striking alliums are a hit ...

Autumn olives flower in early spring. Their flowers grow in clusters all along the branches and are pale yellow to white in colour. When ripe, the fruit is red with silver or brown dots. A single ...

let the flowers mature on the plant until the back of the sunflower head turns brown and the seeds look plump," advises gardening expert Mark Lane. "This usually happens in late summer to early autumn ...

Autumn olive is on the USDA terrestrial invasive plants list ... Fruit is abundant; some plants produce up to 8 pounds of fruit in a season. Seeds are eaten and dispersed by birds, opossums, skunks ...

Summer and autumn are when many gardeners are out collecting vegetable, fruit and flower seeds for the next season. The Mahaska County Master Gardeners would like to encourage their fellow gardeners ...

Look out for flowers from June to September. When flowering has finished, let seed heads form and leave the plants to die back. In autumn, dig over the ground again to ensure weeds don't get a hold.