Wild Flowers

2012

I must have visited about 2008. when DGC were babies. No tearoom and no fields. Very seductive website!

Ooh, gramaretto that is only 30 miles down the road from me!!! Now I know there’s a tea room I may go!!

One packet of seeds from Poundland

I think some wildflowers benefit from being sown in wee pots and then planted as plugs, rather than being sown directly onto lawns.

Another thing that makes a difference is soil fertility. Many wildflowers want comparatively barren soils. Others need bare-ish earth so you'd need to scrape away a bare patch in your lawn.

Another good place for info is the bsbi.org (Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland). People are very helpful if you want to ask questions.

There is a #wildflowerhour on Twitter every Sunday at 8pm too.

Deer eat any "garden" flowers that I plant so I've allowed our garden to revert as much as possible to what we think it was before our house was built in 1890 — cow pasture — and, so far, have identified over 200 wild plants (including mosses and liverworts; it's not all flowering plants) in it without planting any. I let thing set seed and scythe afterwards. It has been an amazing learning experience.

I think there was an item on Countryfile this evening but I couldn't stop what I was doing to watch it.

I had some flower bombs for Christmas. For a while I thought that they were for the bath. Seems that they are little balls of flowers and you just throw them where you want them to grow. Have no idea what they are, imagine some quick annuals.

Wow! sussexborn that's an impressive seed packet's worth!

Yours must have been a very interesting project too Baggs well done.
Some of us attempted to create a border at the community garden with only native seeds and plants. Unfortunately, though carefully prepared, it was almost impossible to remove the perennial "weeds" so it didn't look all that great but the bees liked it so it must have been doing good.

I took the photo as they were coming to an end. Initially there were a number of cornflowers as well. Will definitely repeat the process again this year.

Lovely photo, Sussexborn.
@ Baggs - I envy you!
Our first place in France had a field which had been used for cattle and sheep and had some beautiful wild flowers in spring and summer. Including 3 types of wild orchids, wild gladioli, and those tall white daisy things. And meadowsweet.
Now we only have a 2m by 2m back garden.