• Many flowers are easy to grow from seeds or seedlings.flowers image by OMKAR A.V from Fotolia.com
  
  Green thumb novices and new gardeners with no experience planting and growing plants and flowers can set themselves up for success by planting flowers that are easy to grow. Some flowers are fussy and prone to insect infestations and disease. Others have tricky growth and environmental requirements. But there are plenty of flowers that are easy to grow from seed or seedlings and that will provide blooms all summer long with little care other than regular watering.
  
  

Morning Glories

• Morning glories are extremely easy-to-grow flowering vines. The large, trumpet-shaped flowers come in all colors and sizes. Morning glories can be grown in large containers with a trellis, on a fence or on an arbor. The vines like to spread and grow and need some kind of support. The flowers bloom in the morning and close up for the afternoon. The vines and leaves soon cover any surface they are near and make great screens to shield unattractive areas. Morning glory seeds are inexpensive and readily available. Just plant in soil, water and wait a week for seedlings to sprout. Vines flower quickly, within a month of planting. One word of caution: morning glories are strong growers and profuse seed producers that can take over an area quickly. Snip seed heads off as soon as they dry to avoid an overabundance of vines the following year.
  
  

Marigolds

• Marigolds are bright and cheerful yellow and orange annual flowers. A few varieties come in white. There are small, medium and large marigold plants. All grow easily from seed. The leaves and flowers have a strong, spicy fragrance that is not agreeable to everyone and that repels rabbits and rodents. Marigolds are very nice border flowers that sprout easily from seed and are readily available from garden centers and greenhouses as seedlings. Pick the dried flowers to save seeds for the following year.
  
  

Cosmos

• Cosmos are dainty, annual daisy-shaped flowers on tall stems with lacy foliage. They come in white, pink and red or yellow and orange. Cosmos seeds sprout easily in the spring. The flowers look nice in vases with roses and other daisy-like flowers. When flowers are done blooming, seeds open during the day into a star-shaped burst that is easy to pick to save seeds for next year.
  
  

Sunflowers

• Sunflowers are large annual yellow flowers that produce large seed heads full of edible sunflower seeds. Birds and squirrels love sunflowers and will happily eat the seeds when the flowers are mature. Even the smallest varieties of sunflower are pretty big, and regular sunflower plants can reach more than six feet, so these flowers need space to grow. They make a great screen for unattractive areas if planted in a mass, and the smaller varieties make nice cut flowers.
  
  

Tulips

• Tulips are spring-flowering perennial plants that grow from bulbs. They come in all colors and many sizes. The bulbs are easy to plant a few inches below the surface and are drought-tolerant. Tulips will multiply year after year and increase easily in the garden. A few drawbacks with tulips include a short blooming time, only about a week in the spring, and squirrels may dig up and eat tulip bulbs.