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Cool Season Seed for Direct Sowing Cottage Gardens

Mark your calendars for the First Cottage Garden Seed Sale on September 20, 2025—but don’t be in a rush to sow those seeds just yet! While you can grab your seeds at the sale, it's not quite the right time to plant them. Instead, stash them in the fridge for a few more months and wait until the soil temperatures drop.

These plants thrive in cool growing conditions, which is why I recommend direct seeding them from December through the end of February. In fact, last year, the best results came from gardens seeded on February 7th! Patience pays off when it comes to these beauties.

For some hands-on tips, check out the Brie the Plant Lady YouTube channel, where I walk you through the entire seeding process—step by step. I’ll show you exactly how to get these cottage garden favorites started, ensuring your garden thrives come spring!

Let’s get ready for a spectacular season of cool-weather gardening!

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Cool Season Seed for Direct Sowing Cottage Gardens

FLOWERS $5 PER PACK

  • Bishop’s Flower (limited qty)

  • Bachelor Buttons

  • Breadseed Poppies (limited qty)

  • Calendula

  • California Poppies

  • Campion

  • Carrots

  • Corn Poppies Mixed Colors

  • Corn Poppies Red

  • Fava Beans (limited qty)

  • Larkspur

  • Lunaria (limited qty)

  • Nigella

COOL SEASON MIXES $5 PER PACK or $10 for large bag

  • Brie’s Custom Cottage Garden Mix: Bachelor Buttons, Calendula, California Poppies, Carrots, Red Corn Poppies & Larkspur

  • Ideal Cover Crop: Buckwheat & Crimson Clover

  • Spicy Mixed Greens to deter animals: Kale & Mustard

SOIL IMPROVING COVER CROPS: $5 per pack

  • Buckwheat

  • Crimson Clover

  • Daikon Radish

  • Purple Top Turnip

GRAINS $5 per pack or $20 for 15 ounces

  • Barley

  • Oats

  • Wheat

Garden Art Vendors

Asheville Horizon Glass

Fused glass art is a unique medium that allows me, Alisa Burnette to capture the beauty of the natural world in a way that is both vibrant and ethereal. Each piece I create is a reflection of my love for the outdoors, inspired by the colors, textures, and forms found in nature. The interplay of light and glass is particularly captivating; as light passes through and reflects off the surfaces, it brings each artwork to life, creating a dynamic experience that changes with the environment.

Denise Freitag Pottery

I have always loved nature, flowers, and functional pottery, and these have influenced what I create in my studio. My pieces are created using stoneware clay and food safe glazes so that they can be used in the dishwasher, oven, microwave, and even placed in the freezer!

Garden & Gather Art and Terrariums

Garden & Gather was created by Izzy Hall - a nursery manager turned full-time, award-winning terrarium maker (“professional moss wrangler”) based in Garner, North Carolina. Along with their internationally published, award winning artist and tattooer wife Char Hall, Izzy started Garden & Gather with the mission of bringing unique, high quality, accessibly priced, easy care plants and home decor to plant and nature lovers everywhere!

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Native Grasses & Flowering Perennial Sale

Pricing: $5 per plug; 6 for $20; tray of 32 $100

PERENNIALS

  • Asclepias incarnata

  • Asclepias tuberosa

  • Amsonia tabernaemontana

  • Conoclinium coelestinum 

  • Coreopsis lanceolata

  • Eutrochium fistulosum 

  • Helianthus angustifolius 

  • Hibiscus moscheutos 

  • Hibiscus coccineus 

  • Iris virginica 

  • Liatris spicata

  • Symphyotrichum oblongifolium 

  • Verbena hastata 

  • Vernonia noveboracensis 

GRASSES/ SEDGES

  • Carex cherokeensis

  • Carex 'Moon Falls' 

  • Muhlenbergia capillaris (pink muhly)

  • M. capillaris 'White Cloud' (white muhly)

  • Schizachyrium scoparium 'Ha Ha Tonka' 

  • Sporobolus heterolepis 

Small Bags of Veggie Mix $15

We have a limited supply of small bags of my favorite compost Veggie Mix from Soil3 available for purchase and easy loading right into your vehicle!

 Use Veggie Mix Potting Soil For:

  • Containers or window boxes

  • Seasonal pots

  • Grow bags

  • Deck and patio planters

  • Dividing and potting up passalong plants

  • Seed starting

  • Raised beds

  • All in-ground vegetable beds where you want an extra measure of protection

  • You can even cut off the top and plant right in the cube!