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Amiya Baratan

6 Self-Seeding Plants You Should be Growing in Your Backyard for a (Mostly) Self-Sufficient Garden

A garden with blooming delphinium flowers in purple, blue and lilac.

Work smarter, not harder — that's been a big mantra this year. Besides applying it to your jobs and chores, you can also adopt this clever phrase into your gardening. And we've found one of the best ways to do it — self-seeding plants.

So we consulted the experts and they've given us some brilliant insight on what we should be growing and how to care for these new additions. If you want a garden that looks after itself year after year, self-seeding plants are a good low maintenance garden idea.

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