As you can probably tell, I like free stuff! Free is always good, especially in todays economy. Free Flower Seeds work great for beautifying the yard. I don’t mind spending the time to plant flowers, bushes, plants or trees, when they don’t cost me anything. Makes the yard look better, the wife likes them (well, most of them at any rate), and I suppose adds to the property value. Not that that really matters, as I don’t see us moving anywhere else any time soon.
There are many places online where you can find free seeds. One such place that I went to was the Birds and Blooms magazine website. That’s a really great magazine with useful articles, gardening tips and more. From their bulletin board website, I posted an ad looking for Free Flower Seeds. Any kind I specified, I really wasn’t picky, just looking to get something new to put in the backyard. Plus, we have one of those neighbors where we don’t really want anything to do with him, so I planted an entire row (about 100 feet long) along the bordering side, to serve as sort of a fence. You see, out here in the country, it’s not like living in the city where the houses are close & you have actual metal or wood fences” dividing up the properties. No, there’s no fences of any kind, just open land from one space to another. Which is fine for the most part, as it lets the wildlife that can be found in the country available to roam around from place to place.
At any rate, I was surprised to find so many generous people at that website. No strings attached. I asked for free seeds, and was sent hundreds! Thanks to all those nice people who sent me seeds, I have my 100 foot long border of flowers (ranging from 2 to 5 feet tall!) and various other spots where I placed the flowers. Now you may be thinking, I didn’t specify what I wanted, so I got junky unwanted seeds, but no, what I got was an assortment of some really nice & cool looking plants! Cosmos orange, cardinal vine, scarlet runner bean, moon flower & moon vine, ebony shoofly, morning glory, love in a mist, love lies bleeding, and lots more. Some are annuals, but most were perennials. I planted some of the annuals, but I figure if I’m going to spend the time working on planting something, I want more of a return than just one year! So almost all of the perennials got planted.
The Free Flower Seeds may have been sent to me free, but this little venture of mine wasn’t entirely free. You see, I got so many different types of flowers that I really never heard of before, so I went out and bought a few flower books so I knew what exactly they were, how tall they’d get, the planting environments, etc. $40 later, I got educated on the subject matter. Oh well, free isn’t always free, but at least it was a one time helpful expense, so the flowers got planted in the appropriate spots that they belonged so they can grow for a long time, hopefully.
I’m happy now, the wife likes the way things look, we mostly solved our bad neighbor problem (for now), and we’re even getting some exercise out of the deal, because every night after dinner, we walk around the yard looking at how they are growing! Well, at least we did, now that it’s winter, we’re in hibernation as well….
Free Flower Seeds are very good if you’re into gardening, and free! After this experience, I prefer flowers to vegetables, it’s much more gratifying and they grow a heck of a lot better in my dirt!
