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Kezia Reynolds

5 flowering plants you can collect seeds from right now to fill your summer garden with bold blooms for free

Flowerbed with Agapanthus, Foxgloves, Salvia and Cosmos with a lawn in the background. The garden of a semi detached period house in Islington, North London, home of Adam and Irenie Cossey and three children.

We may be heading into the cooler months, but this doesn’t mean you should put your gardening gloves down just yet. In fact, it’s time for one of the year’s most fun gardening jobs: collecting seeds ready to fill your garden with beautiful colours next growing season.

Collecting seeds from your garden is not only a fun job to complete, but it’s also an incredibly rewarding way to fill your garden with stunning blooms for free! Of course, you’ll need to know how to collect seeds from your garden, but once you do, this autumnal task will save you plenty of time and money from going to the garden centre.

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