Sweet Pea Specialists - Sweet Pea Specialists
Flower Seed Planting Guide for Temperate Zones of Australia
Updated: May 4
Spring
Achillea millefolium - Cerise Queen, Soft Peach, Christine Pink, Walther Funcke, Fireland, Pineapple Mango, Red Velvet, Red Mix, Pink Mix
Achillea filipendulina Hella Glashoff, Cloth of Gold, Credo
Balm of Gilead - Cedronella canariensis (warmer areas - any time of the year)
Bells of Ireland - Moluccella laevis
Billy Buttons - Pycnosorus globosus
Campanula persicifolia ‘Boule de Neige
Centranthus ruber - var. coccineus 'Rosenrot', Red Valerian, Alba
Chocolate Lace Flower 'Dara' Daucus carota
Cornflower - Centaurea cyanus - 'Black Ball', Blue, White, Pink Mix, Purple Mix, Mixed Crimson Clover - Trifolium incarnatum (cool areas)
Cypress Vine (White) - Ipomoea quamoclit
Daylily
Echinops bannaticus ‘Taplow Blue’ - Globe Thistle
Fairy or Angel's Fishing Rod - Dierama pulcherrimum Pale Pink
Gaillardia x grandiflora - Blanket Flower 'Mesa Yellow', 'Mesa Red'
Geranium pratense 'Dark Reiter'
German Chamomile - Matricaria recutita
Helleborus argutifolius 'Pacific Frost' (seeds need to be cold stratified for 6 weeks before sowing)
Hellebore (Helleborus x hybridus) (seeds need to be cold stratified for 6 weeks before sowing)
Lamium galeobdolon - Yellow Archangel
Linaria purpurea - Toadflax
Monarda didyma - Bee Balm - Blue Stocking (seeds need to be cold stratified for three months before sowing)
Moonvine / Moonflower - Ipomoea alba
Morning Glory - 'Scarlett O'Hara', 'Akahigezaki', 'Murasakihigezaki'
Nigella damascene - Love-in-the-Mist
Nigella hispanica ‘Albion Red Pod'
Pansy
Papaver orientale (Oriental Poppy) - Coral
Phygelius aequalis 'Pink Puff' - Cape Fuchsia
Platycodon grandiflorus White - Balloon Flower
Orlaya grandiflora (warm areas)
Queen Anne’s Lace - Daucus carota
Roman chamomile - Chamaemelum nobile
Lupins - Russel Lupin, Pixie Delight Lupin - Lupinus hartwegii nanus (warm and cool temperate areas)
Salvia nemorosa 'Salvatore Blue'
Salvia verticillata alba White Rain - Whorled Sage
Scabiosa atropurpurea - Sweet Scabious - Mauve, Pink, Lilac, Yellow, Blue, Beaujolais Bonnets, Black Knight, Mixed
Scabiosa columbaria 'Misty Butterflies', 'Samantha's Pink'
Scabiosa japonica var. alpina 'Ritz Blue'
Sisyrinchium striatum - Aunt May
Shasta Daisy - Leucanthemum × superbum
Snapdragon - Antirrhinum majus
Snow in Summer - Cerastium tomentosum
Strawflower (warm areas)
Teucrium hircanicum - Iranian Wood Sage
Tigridia pavonia - Jockey Cap - Hot Pink
Viola
Wormwood - Artemisia absinthium
Spring / Summer
Anthemis tinctoria 'E.C. Buxton' - Dyer's Chamomile
Anthriscus sylvestris ‘Ravenswing’
Golden Feverfew - Tanacetum parthenium 'aureum'
Commelina tuberosa (Coelestis)
Cosmos bipinnatus , sulphureus, Apricot Lemonade
English Lavender 'Hidcote' - Lavandula angustifolia
Forget-Me-Not - Myosotis avensis
Four O’clock Flower or The Marvel of Peru - Mirabilis jalapa
Jerusalem Sage - Phlomis Russeliana
Moonvine / Moonflower - Ipomoea alba
Nigella orientalis ‘Transformer’
Obedient Plant Seeds - Physostegia Virginiana - Pink, White
Platycodon grandiflorus White - Balloon Flower
Scabiosa stellata 'Sternkugel' - Paper Moons
Snow in Summer - Cerastium tomentosum
Sweet William Mix - Dianthus barbatus
Tigridia pavonia - Jockey Cap Lily
Summer
Zinnia - Queen Series Mix, Mixed Seeds, Benary Giant Mix, Envy, Double Scarlet, Formula Mix,
Honesty (Purple) - Lunaria annua
Autumn
Achillea millefolium - Cerise Queen, Soft Peach, Christine Pink, Walther Funcke, Fireland, Pineapple Mango, Red Velvet, Red Mix, Pink Mix
Achillea filipendulina Hella Glashoff, Cloth of Gold, Credo
Alchemilla mollis - Lady's Mantle
Allium acuminatum - Tapertip Onion or Hooker's Onion
Astrantia Hadspen Blood
Bells of Ireland - Moluccella laevis
Blue Marguerite Daisy - Felicia amelloides
Boltonia asteroids - False Aster
Campanula persicifolia ‘Boule de Neige
Camassia leichtlinii ‘Sacajawea’
Campanula medium - Canterbury Bells Mix
Chocolate Lace Flower 'Dara' Daucus carota
Cornflower - Centaurea cyanus - 'Black Ball', Blue, White, Pink Mix, Purple Mix, Mixed Seeds
Crimson Clover - Trifolium incarnatum (warm areas)
Delphinium Mixed, Dwarf Mixed,
Dianthus superbus - Fringed Pink or Superb Pink
Digitalis purpurea - Foxglove Mix
Digitalis lanata - Woolly Foxglove or Grecian Foxglove
Fairy or Angel's Fishing Rod - Dierama pulcherrimum Pale Pink
Foxglove Mix - Digitalis purpurea
Geum - Avens - 'Mrs J. Bradshaw', 'Lady Stratheden'
Hellebore (Helleborus x hybridus)
Helleborus argutifolius 'Pacific Frost'
Hollyhock - Alcea ficifolia - Red, Crimson, Deep Pink, Soft Pink, Mix
Iris - Siberian Iris - Iris sibirica, Heritage Siberian Iris - Iris sibirica - Purple
Larkspur - Brisbane Carmine Rose, Pink/Mauve
Lepechinia hastate - Baja Pitcher Sage
Liatris spicata - Blazing Star
Monarda didyma - Bee Balm - Blue Stocking (for warmer areas, seeds need to be cold stratified for three months before sowing)
Lysimachia punctata - Yellow Loosestrife
Nigella damascene - Love-in-the-Mist
Nigella orientalis ‘Transformer’
Orlaya grandiflora (warm and cold areas)
Ox-eye Daisy - Leucanthemum vulgare
Pansy
Queen Anne’s Lace - Daucus carota
Rose Campion - Lychnis coronaria - Pink, White
Lupins - Russel Lupin, Pixie Delight Lupin - Lupinus hartwegii nanus (warm and cool temperate areas)
Sanguisorba officinalis ‘Arnhem’ - Great Burnet 'Arnhem'
Scabiosa atropurpurea - Sweet Scabious - Mauve, Pink, Lilac, Yellow, Blue, Beaujolais Bonnets, Black Knight, Midnight, Mixed
Scabiosa caucasica - Blue, White
Scabiosa gigantea - Giant Pincushion
Sea Holly - Eryngium bourgatii, Eryngium planum 'Blue Sea Holly'
Sisyrinchium striatum - Aunt May
Sisyrinchium californicum - Yellow-eyed Grass
Snapdragon - Antirrhinum majus
Snow in Summer - Cerastium tomentosum
Symphyotrichum (syn. Aster) novi-belgii Mauve & Alba
Teucrium hircanicum - Iranian Wood Sage
Thalictrum aquilegifolium Purpureum, Alba
Verbascum hybridum 'Southern Charm'
Veronica gentianoides - Gentian Speedwell
Viola
White Woodland Aster - Eurybia divaricata
Winter
Bells of Ireland - Moluccella laevis
Monarda didyma - Bee Balm - Blue Stocking (for warmer areas, seeds need to be cold stratified for three months before sowing)
Plant Hardiness Zones for Australia
by Iain Dawson (Horticultural Research Unit, ANBG)
