This section is from the book "The Complete Garden", by Albert D. Taylor. Also available from Amazon: The Complete Garden.
To provide a succession of bloom with annuals those included in the following group should be sown in two or three successive plantings. Very few annual seeds should be sown after the hot summer weather begins, unless great care is given to the watering.
Centaurea Cyanus Old-fashioned Cornflower
Coreopsis tinctoria
Tickseed Gypsophila elegans
Baby's Breath (sow every three weeks) Iberis umbellata
Candytuft (sow every three weeks)
Myosotis palustris Forget-me-not
Nigella damascena
Love-in-a-mist (sow every six weeks)
Papaver (in variety)
Poppy (sow every four weeks)
Phlox drummondi Drummond's Phlox
Reseda odorata Mignonette (sow every three weeks)
 
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