Seed Needs Butterfly Garden Bulk Seed Variety Collection - 4 Large Pouches Pure Live Seed No Filler - Crazy Cosmos, California Giants Zinnia, Crazy Sunflower & Butterfly Wildflower Mix

Creating a butterfly garden with seeds like cosmos, sunflowers, zinnias, and other wildflowers is a rewarding way to attract vibrant pollinators while adding beauty to your yard. Start by choosing a sunny location with well-drained soil, as these flowers thrive in full sunlight. Prepare the soil by clearing weeds and loosening it to a depth of about 6-8 inches, mixing in compost for nutrients. Sow the seed directly onto the ground after the last frost. Sow sparingly, spreading each seed about 3 to 6 inches apart, as they grow quickly and fill spaces with their airy, colorful blooms. Larger seeds like sunflower seeds and nasturtium seeds, can be pressed in a little deeper. Water gently but consistently until seedlings establish, then reduce to weekly watering as these plants are relatively drought-tolerant. Maintaining your butterfly garden requires minimal effort but boosts its appeal to butterflies. Deadhead spent blooms on cosmos and zinnias to encourage continuous flowering, and leave some sunflower heads to dry for birds and late-season pollinators. Included are host plants like milkweed for monarch caterpillars to lay eggs, ensuring a full butterfly life cycle. By midsummer, your garden will be a fluttering haven, with cosmos’ feathery pinks, zinnias’ bold reds and oranges, sunflowers’ towering yellows, and wildflowers’ varied hues drawing species like swallowtails and painted ladies. This low-maintenance, seed-based approach creates a sustainable ecosystem that supports pollinators year after year.

• Variety Pack: This collection includes Crazy Cosmos Mixture, Crazy Sunflower Mixture, Giants of California Zinnia & a specialty Butterfly Wildflower Mixture.
• Individual Flowers: Some of the mix contents in each include, velvet queen sunflower, red sun sunflower, orange king zinnia, envy lime green zinnia, nasturtium, daydream cosmos, dazzler cosmox and more!
• Butterfly Haven: The mixes in this collection will draw all sorts of beneficial insects to the flower garden, such as butterflies, lady bugs, bumblebees, honeybees and more!
• Color: Colorful flower mixture that contains hues of red flowers, orange flowers, yellow flowers, blue flowers, indigo flowers, violet flowers, pink flowers & white flowers.
• Quality: All wildflower seeds packaged by Seed Needs are intended for the current and the following growing seasons. All seeds are stored in a temperature controlled facility that is free of significant amounts of moisture.
• Quantity: Seed Needs offers generous quantities. You can share with friends and family, or you can save the extra seeds until the following season, if properly stored.
• Pouches: Each seed Pouch displays an artful illustration of the variety to be grown, as well as detailed seed sowing information on the reverse side. They measure 5" wide by 7" tall.
• Promise: Seed Needs will never knowingly supply GMO based seed products. The vast majority of our seeds are open pollinated & heirloom, with the exception of a few hybrids.
• Germination: Seed Needs packets contain some of the freshest seed available. Direct from the growers. If sown correctly, you will begin seeing results in only a matter of days.
• Freshness: All flower seeds are packaged in tear resistant and moisture resistant packaging. This keeps the seeds a whole lot fresher than the competitions selection!