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Homes & Gardens
Drew Swainston

7 flowers to sow in April – what to plant this month for summer blooms to adore, cut, and even eat

A sunflower in a meadow of flowers in summer.

April is an ideal time to sow many flowers from seed. Growing your flowers from seed is an inexpensive and effective way to give you plants to fill your beds, borders, and containers with explosions of color come the summer. 

As the spring weather warms the soil, it expands the range of flowers that you can plant in April. While lots of sowing was restricted to indoors in previous months, April is a time when you can confidently start sowing directly into the soil if you prefer.

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