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If you think flower beds are just for bulbs, you haven’t noticed the latest trend in home gardening. Wildflowers make beautiful additions to any home landscape. Easy to grow and even easier to maintain, wildflowers add natural color and beauty to practically any house and yard.

Today, wildflowers can be planted in flower beds, around trees and mailboxes, and even as trim around the fronts of houses. They can be grown successfully from seed as long as they're suited to the environment. And, after one healthy growing season, wildflowers return year after year, just as their traditional counterparts do in the wild.

Most wildflower seeds come prepackaged in mixtures. These mixtures usually contain blends of annuals, perennials, biennials and a “nurse” grass seed, such as a hard or tall fescue. The nurse grass will germinate quickly, thus preventing weed growth while the wildflowers

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