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If you dream of filling your home with your own cut flowers, gifting website and flower farm Bell Meadow has introduced a flower seed collection that will help you realise that ambition. It contains 11 seed packets (each with detailed growing instructions on a card to keep for reference) including sweet peas, cornflowers and marigolds. These are all suitable for beginner growers and will attract pollinators to your garden. Bell Meadow’s Maria Ryan suggests starting the sweet peas now indoors if you want earlier blooms; the others can be started in early spring inside, or planted directly into the garden or a raised bed later in spring, once the danger of frost has passed.