BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine

Grow perennials from seed now

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Sow a few hardy perennials to bloom this summer. For flowering in their first year, agastache, delphinium­s, echinacea and Oenothera (gaura) will all do well.

Fill a pot with loam-based propagatio­n compost and tamp down the compost to give a firm, level surface. Scatter the seed sparsely over the surface, cover with a thin layer of vermiculit­e or sieved compost and label the pot.

Press down the surface lightly and place the pot in a tray of water to soak up through the compost. The seeds will germinate on your greenhouse bench without heat but a propagator will speed up germinatio­n.

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Cover seeds with vermiculit­e to help keep the compost moist

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