Get This Look: Plant A Wildflower Lawn
Posted By American Meadows Content Team on Jan 22, 2024 · Revised on Aug 5, 2026
Posted By American Meadows Content Team on Jan 22, 2024 · Revised on Aug 5, 2026
Say goodbye to a boring lawn, and fill your yard with beautiful flowers. When you replace your lawn with wildflowers, you can reduce or eliminate mowing, watering, and fertilizing, and enjoy a yard filled with natural beauty. Get great yard ideas and inspiration from American Meadows customers across the country — then shop the exact seeds to grow each look, or browse all of our wildflower lawn seeds.
Five looks, one new lawn — jump to your favorite:
All-Annual Color Monochromatic Cosmos & Sunflowers Classic Meadow Mix Mike's Mini Meadow
Look 1 of 5 · Annual Wildflowers
A colorful mix of annual wildflowers offers a cheerful display all growing season. Sunflowers, Coreopsis, Cosmos, and Baby’s Breath show off a mix of colors and flower forms. Mowing a small area around the house helps to balance the exuberance of the wildflowers.
PlantOne all-annual wildflower seed mix — no design skills needed.
MowKeep a tidy mowed strip around the house to frame the meadow.
RepeatAnnuals live one year — sow fresh seed each spring for the best show.
All Annual Vivid Variety Wildflower Seed Mix
Blooms the first year · Non-stop color spring to frost
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Look 2 of 5 · Single-Color Meadows
A sea of wildflowers in a single color has a calming effect that complements the beauty of the natural world. Emphasis on a single color makes a chic, bold, and memorable impression, while the texture of unique flower forms provides contrast. The mix of flower forms and heights creates rhythm to move your eye across the space.
PickChoose your favorite color — blue, red, yellow, pink, purple, or white.
PlantA single-color seed mix blends species and textures in one hue for you.
LayerAdd individual species like Lupine or Blue Flax for extra height and form.
Single-Color Wildflower Seed Mixes
One color, many species · Pictured: Perennial Lupine & Blue Flax
Look 3 of 5 · Two-Species Combo
This customer's sloping meadow features a mix of Cosmos and Sunflowers, two of our most popular annual wildflowers. Keeping a limited color palette shows intention, and the large bold blooms are just as enjoyable from a distance as they are up-close. Pairing tall wildflower species helps the flowers support each other as they grow skyward.
SplitPlant 50% Sunflower seeds and 50% Cosmos seeds for your coverage area.
PairTall species support each other as they grow skyward — no staking.
RepeatAnnuals live one year — sow fresh seed each spring for the best show.
Sunflower & Cosmos Wildflower Seed Combo
Two customer favorites, pre-paired · Big bold blooms
Look 4 of 5 · Annuals + Perennials
Trade in your lawn for a showcase of colorful flowers! The exclusive Regional wildflower seed mixes from American Meadows feature over 20 wildflower species in each. With such a wide variety of flowers, there’s something new blooming all the time. You can brighten your yard with a rainbow of blooms.
PlantThe Regional Mix blended for where you live — annuals and perennials together.
Year 1Annuals in the mix bloom the very first season.
Year 2+Perennials establish and return bigger every year after.
Regional Wildflower Seed Mixes
20+ species per mix · Expertly blended for your region by The Seed Man
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Look 5 of 5 · Front-Yard Mini Meadow
Mike "The Seed Man" grows a lovely mini meadow in his front yard. The meadow includes favorite perennial wildflowers in the back, which grow back each year. In the front of the mini meadow, Mike plants fresh annual wildflower seeds each spring for a burst of colorful blooms. A grass walkway wraps around the house and creates a path around the meadow.
ShapeRemove a section of lawn in an organic, curving bed around your yard.
LayerPerennials in back return each year; annuals up front for fresh color.
InviteAdd birdfeeders, bird houses, and pollinator hotels for flying friends.
Build Your Own Mini Meadow
Perennial mixes for the base + annual mixes for yearly color
Explore every seed mix we recommend for wildflower lawns and lawn alternatives — all in one place.
