Spring wildflower meadow

[Evanivitch]

GiantEnemyCrab said:

Anyone else had any sucess this year?

The only thing I've seen with any success is ox eye daisy. Perhaps early for a few things but soil temperatures really struggled with the wetness.

[mcelliott]

Well our meadow goes from strength to strength, a huge effort through the late summer last year to collect swaths of dried seed heads and re sown new areas, now about an acre and a half in size and we are pretty happy, up for a regional award as a pollinator project too.

[Silvanus]

mcelliott said:

Well our meadow goes from strength to strength, a huge effort through the late summer last year to collect swaths of dried seed heads and re sown new areas, now about an acre and a half in size and we are pretty happy, up for a regional award as a pollinator project too.

Daisy's look great, what else is in there? daisy's seem to be doing well this year

[The Three D Mucketeer]

In 2021 I spent £100 on wild flower for a road side verge next to my house , the "new" road contactors had put in a duct and i got them the recreate the raised verge to stop cars parking, then I seeded . This was the result



Never seen another flower there since

[mcelliott]

Silvanus said:

mcelliott said:

Well our meadow goes from strength to strength, a huge effort through the late summer last year to collect swaths of dried seed heads and re sown new areas, now about an acre and a half in size and we are pretty happy, up for a regional award as a pollinator project too.

Daisy's look great, what else is in there? daisy's seem to be doing well this year

We have another area with mixed flowers, these include cornflower corncockle yellow rattle poppy knapweed fetch clover and love in a mist, to name but a few! next year we plan to prep a big area to grow a block of sunflowers.

[Evanivitch]

mcelliott said:

We have another area with mixed flowers, these include cornflower corncockle yellow rattle poppy knapweed fetch clover and love in a mist, to name but a few! next year we plan to prep a big area to grow a block of sunflowers.

Slugs have had every sunflower I've planted.