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Growing sunflowers in pots: easy step-by-step guide

May 12, 2020 by Catherine 5 Comments

If you're looking for easy seeds to grow with children, it's hard to beat growing sunflowers in pots. If you're not gardening with children sunflowers are still fantastic plants to grow, and they make wonderful cut flowers too. This step-by-step guide shows you how to grow sunflowers in pots, covering which seeds to choose, planting and care instructions, and fun sunflower activities for kids. Growing sunflowers in pots As well as ...

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Filed Under: Gardening with Children Tagged With: Activity, Birds, Children, Family, Flowering plants, Flowers, Garden, Garden tips, Garden tools, gardening, gardening equipment, Gardening with children, growing from seed, Minibeasts, Nature, Outdoors, Planting, Plants, Seedlings, Seeds, Spring, Sunflower, Sunflowers, Top Tips, Wildlife

Taking the RSPB Wild Challenge: spotting signs of spring and sowing sunflowers

March 26, 2019 by Catherine Leave a Comment

RSPB signs of spring

Last year we had a great time partnering with RSPB on family-friendly activities that would help to give nature a home in our garden.  You might remember that we planted wildflower seeds, grew flowers for butterflies, made a frog and toad abode, grew plants for moths, and made a bird bath.  It was a busy year! We’re thrilled to be working with RSPB again on some fun new projects.  Over the next few months we’ll be bringing you more ...

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Filed Under: Exploring Nature Tagged With: Activity, Birds, Children, Family, Flowers, Garden, gardening, Minibeasts, Nature, Outdoors, Planting, Plants, RSPB, Seeds, Spring, Sunflowers, Wildlife

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