I didn't half to buy any flowers for this year.

I had to buy flowers this year but I mainly use artificial flowers and flower pots now. It is so much easier for me to mess with. I do not have to water them and take care fo them all summer long. I do not have much luck with keeping flowers living. I do have some live forevers all over my yard though. Those never die and they come back up every year.

Hi Marcia-have to say I dont do that most of the flowers in my garden are annuals and are roses fuschias azalea and a few others-but that is in my front garden in my garden I dont have any as I have two dogs and they would eat them!! when they were pups they ruined my garden out the back so now I have kept most of it patioed-your friend littleowl

I didn't plant any flowers neither, I did buy 3 hanging baskets for my porch. Are the moon flowers coming up? Mine didn't come up this year, at least not yet. We are still in the process of getting the yard together.

I have mostly perennials. I do have some annuals that we planted. I am trying to move to all perennials.

You are lucky you did not have to buy flowers. We have had similar experiences, where we did not plant tomato plants but some got seeded from unpicked tomatoes. Saving you seeds is a great idea, especially if you liked the plants that you had.

I wish I had my gardens sorted out. Our previous house with a garden (4 houses ago now) I had my own little flower patch and used to plant seedlings out. When they flowered and dropped the seeds, I would just scatter them through the garden and they would grow or not. I wanted a random effect, and this did that and also saved on expenses too buy using the seeds from the ones that already flowered. I had colour all year round, and all the flowers complimented each other nicely and added their own dimension to the whole bed. Very bright and cheery and my garden!

I do this too. I save my own seeds from the previous year for the next garden. I save hollyhock, blackeyed susans, marigolds, and all kinds of other flowers. Besides the flowering plants, I also save seed from tomatoes, pumpkins, zucchini, sunflowers and anything I can save seed from, I do. I also start new bushes from whatever I prune. I have one area of fencing that I'm trying to get a long strip of roses planted by, every year I increase it. Last year I started forsythia bushes, and all kinds of stuff for my one daughters new house. I love doing this in my garden, feels like I'm getting something for nothing. Very seldom do I ever purchase plants, unless it's something I can't get started in my sunroom in the spring. Happy gardening to you!!!