Best flower seeds

Make sure your garden is filled with colorful and beautiful blooms by planting flower seeds. We’ve put together a top selection.

Mountain Valley Seed Company wildflower seeds
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Plant plentiful flower seeds and you can make the tiniest balcony or patio or the biggest yard look wonderful. It’s a strategy that can create brilliant results for very little outlay. Relish the sight of an array of colors, fabulous fragrances, and everything from delicate flowers to show-stopping blooms. Take a look at the brilliant choices we’ve found.

Best overall

Black Duck Brand 25 flower seed packets

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Black Duck Brand 25 flower seed packets

Brighten up

Create a fantastic display in your garden with this flower seed selection. You’ll get a total of 25 packets with ten or more varieties, which could include favorites such as marigolds, zinnias, poppies, snapdragons, and more. For large flower seeds, you might get 25 in a packet, while there could be hundreds of small seeds in a single packet. 

Best gift

GARDEN REPUBLIC Edible flowers garden seed starter kit

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GARDEN REPUBLIC edible flowers garden seed starter kit

For indoors or outdoors

Grow these edible flowers and you can use them to dress plates of food or to garnish cocktails. The kit comes with four types of seeds with 25 plus per packet. The wooden gift box can be used as a planter, and you’ll also receive four grow bags, potting soil discs, bamboo plant markers, and harvesting shears, as well as instructions.

Best wildflowers

Mountain Valley Seed Company wildflower seeds

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Mountain Valley Seed Company wildflower seeds

Easy to grow

This blend of flower seeds can be sown after the frost or in fall, in which case, they’ll be dormant until spring. There’s a mix of 23 varieties, and the majority are annuals, with perennials and biennials also featured. The flowers will attract beneficial pollinators, from hummingbirds and butterflies to bees and ladybugs. 

Best for pots

Raw Earth Colors marigold seeds

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Raw Earth Colors marigold seeds

Gorgeous shades

Grow these marigold flower seeds for a display in shades of gold, orange, yellow, red, and bicolors. They’re perfect for planting in containers as well as in beds and borders. You’ll get around 500 seeds if you opt for this mix, and they’ll grow to a height of 8 to 12 inches and reward you with a long blooming time as well.

Best for cut flowers

Sow Right Seeds flower seed garden collection

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Sow Right Seeds flower seed garden collection

Beautiful blooms

If you want flowers that’ll brighten your garden and look equally good in a vase indoors, check out this collection. It features a packet each of marigold, zinnia, cosmos, cape daisy, and aster flower seeds. There are clear growing instructions on each packet, so you can put them in correctly even if you’ve never grown the variety before.

Best color mix

Seed Needs crazy mix cosmos

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Seed Needs crazy mix cosmos seeds

7,000 seeds

Enjoy pink, white, purple, orange, red, and yellow flowers through the summer months if you plant these flower seeds. They’re annuals that will carry on blooming until the first frost. The majority of the plants in this cosmos mixture will grow to 18 to 60 inches tall to create an amazing summer display. 

Our verdict

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It’s easy to make your garden bloom by planting flower seeds. Opt for Black Duck Brand 25 flower seed packets and you’ll get a generous 25 packets of seeds of ten or more varieties that will bring plenty of interest to your garden.

If you like the idea of growing wildflowers that will attract and support wildlife, opt for Mountain Valley Seed Company wildflower seeds. The 23 varieties will make a stunning spectacle, and there are perennials and biennials in the mix, along with annuals, that will bring lasting results from your planting.

Sarah Warwick
Freelance writer

Sarah is a freelance journalist and editor writing for websites, national newspapers, and magazines. She’s spent most of her journalistic career specialising in homes and gardens and loves investigating the benefits, costs and practicalities of home improvement. It's no big surprise that she likes to put what she writes about into practice, and is a serial house revamper.