Suggestions please.

Finding the grass is too much for me to handle any more, I would like to dig up most of my back lawn and plant stuff.

What I'm looking for is: ground cover, perennial, butterfly and insect attracting, with long-lasting flowers and even maybe with berries or fruit. It also needs to be low maintenance and native to UK.

The area to be covered is about 10 yards X 5 yards.

Would greatly appreciate advice on what to get please.

Thanks.

Ripple

 

Welcome to GC, Ripple
Hopefully more experienced members will be along to offer you their wisdom.

 

Can you upload any photos? That would help get an idea of the area you want to plant.

Anything you particularly like? Cottage Garden? Roses? Shrubs? Herbaceous? Containers? Vegetables?!! Exotics?

 

Thanks Kristen. Will ask daughter to get some pics on her mobile when she can tear herself away from twittle.

Regards

Ripple

 

These are one of my favs this year i grew easily from seed bought in wilkinsons rudbeckia..

 

what about
English clover as ground cover

english daisy

buddleia for the butterfly (no native but growing wild all over UK)
wild english strawberry

native blue bell

wild digitalis

Prunus spinosa

english yew

 

I'm interested why you included this. My lawn's covered in the stuff. Am I assuming you reckon it's not such a bad thing to have? It does spread quickly but perhaps it's not as bad as some other weeds.

 

English clover is native , You may don`t like it in your lawn because it`s a mix of the 2 ,
considered weed , it`s actually really good for your soil , as it work like oxigenator.
Do not forget that lawn was considered weeds as well century ago , If you wouldn`t cut your lawn weekly it would look like this.
poaceae grass used for moder lawn.

 

I think it was over a century ago but I take your point. I'll not worry about it too much then. Thanks.

 

Have managed to persuade daughter to upload a pic. The bit along the stream I'm also looking for suggestion please. At the moment it's just overgrown grass.