Popular Flower Types
There are more than 400,000 types of flowers in the world, each with its own name and classification. With so many choices, picking the right flower can be overwhelming.
Luckily, we’ve put together this guide to the ten most popular flower types you can find in bloom. Each one has its own meaning and charm, and each will make a lovely addition to any bouquet or arrangement!
March is a good time to plan and gather materials to start your vegetable, herbs, and/or flower seeds indoors.
In the Mohawk Valley, gardeners will start sowing seeds indoors in mid to late April.
That way, the plant is ready to be transplanted outdoors in late May or the beginning of June, safe from the last frost date.
What type of flower, vegetable, or herb seeds would you like to grow?
Seed catalogs, seed racks in department stores, and online seed shopping can help you decide what to grow.
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There are annual (grow only 1 season) and perennial (come back year after year) flowering plants to choose from. For vegetables and herbs, pick plants that you and your family would like to eat or add to culinary dishes.
The seed packet has lots of good information. It will tell you if the plant should be started indoors or if it is best to start outdoors in the ground. Also, how soon to sow the seeds, how many weeks before the last frost date, or when the soil will warm up.
CCE Oneida County has a fact sheet on Starting Seeds Indoors found online at cceoneida.com under Home and Garden; see Fact Sheets.
Looking for top-rated vegetable varieties or the most reviewed ones?
Check out Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners, a citizen science program of Cornell Garden-Based Learning, Cornell University Extension, at vegvariety.cce.cornell.edu.
Cornell Garden-Based Learning website https://gardening.cals.cornell.edu/garden-guidance/foodgarden/ has helpful information on Food Gardening. Check out the Vegetable Varieties List 2023. This list can help you plan what vegetables to grow in your garden resistant to specific disease problems.
If you want to get a jump start to starting seeds in March, try milk jug sowing of seeds that will be placed outdoors. I have tried growing some perennial flowers this way over the past two years. I plan to start some flowers and vegetables again. A good website resource from Penn State University Extension on sowing seeds in winter can be found at https://extension.psu.edu/starting-seeds-in-winter
Cornell Cooperative Extension Oneida County answers home and garden questions which can be emailed to homeandgarden@cornell.edu or call 315-736-3394, press 1 and ext. 333. Leave your question, name and phone number. Questions are answered weekdays, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Also, visit our website at http://cceoneida.com/ or phone 315-736-3394, press 1 and then ext.100
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