Lost my wild flower patch, but I have a plan.

Hi all,

As the title says I have lost my wild flower patch as I had to move compost bin and that was the only place to put it. I have a plan though, the bottom lawn and bottom of the garden is going to be fenced off from the kids and at the bottom I want to make a flower meadow in the lawn. I have not cut it since last November and it is now about a foot high. I want to introduce perenial wildfowers that I can grow in plugs over the winter and plant out next spring. Only trouble is I don't know what to use. I have looked on Internet and all I can really find is wild flower mixes. Does anyone have any suggestions on what to use and where to get seeds from? The area will be about 1m x 3m and gets sun most of the day, but has quite poor drainage in the winter.

Rusty

 

Hi Rusty

I'd go for Hayrattle for a start, and think about making some piles of calcerious stuff in the grass, to improve drainage. I'm talking about a few piles of a limey sand.

 

Hi Zigs

Thanks fir the reply. I have some hay rattle as suggested by yourself when the grass was taking over the old patch, but I neglected it a bit in the cold frame and nowt germinated
. I have some left I think so will try again. Forgive my ignorance, but how does piles of limey sand improve drainage? Do I work it into the ground or plant into or something?

 

I was just thinking how a plant like Kidney vetch would like a well drained limestone slope.

 

Cheers Zigs.

I will look up kidney vetch.

Rusty

 

I got a few packs of native wildflower mixes from my local garden centre a few years ago for about 10p each at the end of the season, but never used them. I found them a few weeks ago when had a clearout. I could have sent them to you but i threw them out as i didn't think they would have been much good after all this time.