6 flowers recommended for growing with children

3 major benefits of children growing flowers:

1. Increasing children's sense of responsibility

Growing flowers, like raising small animals, can make children more responsible. Children need to often think about watering the flowers, letting the flowers get sunlight, and need to take on the responsibility of caring for the flowers.

2. Letting children learn persistence

To grow flowers well, you need to care for the flowers over a long period and have enough patience. From a small seedling to blooming beautiful flowers, it takes months of persistence, and in the process of caring for the flowers, children also learn persistence.

3. Letting children feel the power of life

A seed, given water and light, can take root and sprout, and bloom into beautiful flowers. What a wonderful process this is. The process of plant growth can let children feel the powerful force of life, so they cherish life more and know how to be grateful.

6 kinds of flowers suitable for growing with young children:

1. Sunflower

Sunflowers are very simple to plant. You can use the raw sunflower seeds we eat for planting, and they grow very fast. The flowers they bloom are very beautiful, and the sunflower seeds they produce can also be eaten. They are very suitable for children to grow.

2. Mint (spearmint, Mentha spicata)

Summer has arrived. Planting a pot of mint with your children is not only attractive, but can also bring a touch of coolness to the hot summer. After the mint grows up, the leaves can also be used to make tea.

3. Calendula (Calendula officinalis)

Children will all love the vibrant, brilliantly bright orange and yellow of calendula. After the threat of frost has passed and the soil begins to warm, it is a good time to plant calendula. Bury the calendula seeds directly under the garden soil, at intervals of about six feet. Remember to plant them in a place with sunlight. Gently bury the seeds into the soil, then cover with a quarter foot of soil. Water thoroughly once, allowing it to absorb plenty of water. During dry periods, water once or twice a week. By midsummer, you will be able to see your first flower.

4. Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus)

Cosmos, also known as garden cosmos and autumn cosmos. Annual or perennial herb, 1-2 m tall. Roots spindle-shaped, with many fibrous roots, or adventitious roots near the base of the stem. Stems hairless or slightly pubescent. Leaves bipinnately parted, lobes linear or filiform-linear. Capitulum solitary, 3-6 cm in diameter. Outer phyllaries lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, nearly leathery, pale green, with dark purple stripes.

A light-loving plant, loves light, tolerates poor soil, avoids fertilizer, excessively fertile soil, avoids intense heat, avoids waterlogging, is not suited to high summer temperatures, and is not cold-tolerant. It needs loose, fertile, and well-drained loam.

5. Coreopsis (Coreopsis)

Coreopsis is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Coreopsis in the Asteraceae family. The leaves are mostly opposite, rarely alternate, entire, shallowly lobed, or cut. The flowers of coreopsis are solitary or in loose panicles, with ray florets yellow, brown, or pink. Disk florets are yellow to brown. In spring, direct sowing in the open field at the end of April, flowering in July-August, with flowers continuing to bloom until mid-October.

6. Sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus)

High ornamental value, sown in autumn and blooming in spring. Sweet pea flowers are extremely beautiful, delicate and soft, rich in color, and also very fragrant.