It is ideal in late spring. While on one hand the warmth of the soil promotes germination, the spring rains promote growth from the seedlings. Zinnias, sunflowers, cosmos, petunias, bachelor buttons, balsam, alyssum, marigolds, vinca, poertuluca, lobelia are some of the more popular annual summer flowers which people love to grow.

Sunlight for at least six hours each day is needed for the summer flowers to grow profusely. For Southwest and desert climate zones, afternoon shade is recommended. This is when you are preparing the soil. Turn over the soil with a mixture of compost, some rotten manure and fertilizer, following the package advice. In case the flower bed is against a wall or fence, then follow a pattern of planning with tallest plants at the back and shortest and spreading flowers in front. This will make the tall plants to lean against the fence and would never shade the smaller plants.

How should you plant the flowers if the bed is in the center of the year? To make it look like a meadow, plant several colors at once or use coordinated colors. Choose two bright colors like red and blue. Pick them up and throw in a bit of yellow randomly.

This gives you extra seedlings as you lose some to the birds and bugs. After covering the seeds as per instructions, add a layer of mulch and then water thoroughly. Excess water is as bad as no water at all. Your seeds have sprouted. If you want to know the perfect distance which should be kept between the flowers, they are 6, 12 and 18 inches for shorter, medium and taller flowers.

Can you imagine the more you pluck them, the more they blossom and this is the most wonderful part about summer flowers. To seed, is the main purpose of a flower, if you look at it from the perspective of the plant. Soon upon completing this job, the plant would cease to bloom. Once the first bloom is over, reduce the flowers in half. Expect a mind-boggling display all summer if you plant the seeds of the summer flowers late spring.