Wildflower Meadow

[poliphilo]

I was going to broadcast wildflower seeds round the fields but now we have horses living in them anything that grows out there is going to get itself eaten or trampled so we're setting aside a corner of the garden as a wildflower meadow instead. Julia is preparing the ground now.



She says she can bring us a hawthorn to plant as a centrepiece.

Digging through the undergrowth she found a primula in flower...

Comments

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

Wild flowers are lovely - I have a remote corner in my garden that I haven't done anything about, and it has lovely flowers throughout the summer; white chervil, blue chicory, purple nettles blooming in 2' grass is quite delightful. Also, I actually eat all of them except the grass - and the ground elder is also delicious in spring.

(Mind you, I'd go for a more heavily flowering mix if I were to have it in the garden proper - but it's down behind the shed and the greenhouse, so it's a place I go down to, rather than something I see from the house or the terrace.)

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

They're out here too! :o)

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

My freesia are blooming...they spread like wildfire more and more each year. I need to check the primula which are rather hidden under a tree that dropped a lot of leaves.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Surprise flowers are wonderful. I think a wildflower garden is a wonderful idea. I understand that they take some maintenance in the first years as the opportunistic weeds colonize.

It just occurred to me this year that I could plant a number of lovely spring ephemerals in our back garden and enjoy them before the maple leafs out. I have several hundred decade-old columbine seeds that I may sow in a flat to see if anything comes up...

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

I bet you have great flowers and herbs there. It's too dang hot here for much other than tropicals. My azaleas have been in bloom for two weeks.