Wild and free?!

Oooh I love this, although I must admit my fingers are itching to pull up the willow herb lol, get lots of that in my borders. I do think its pretty in the wild though:-))

I love it too , it's beautiful .. we have Rose bay willow herb Bg .. no matter how much we pull up it still appears again the next year :o(

At least it's not too hard to pull out, not like dandelions and dock etc..also got lots of buttercups with all this rain and they can be a pain too. Isn't it funny Amy, my plants have had a battering from this awful weather, but my weeds seem to love it lol:-)

yes my weeds are growing exceptionally well!!

my dad [who didnt know anything about plants] used to say rose bay willow herb was his favourite plant ~ only because he could remember the name of it!!

i throw mine over the fence to the wild area!!

Oh that's lovely Sticki, great pic...

thank you SL, i think it had more poppies in last year? reds, pinks and maybe more cornflowers?

does this go with it??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhGeH07lo5M

Beautiful Sticki - it is like a PC wallpaper backdrop - lovely

Thanks Paul

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Oooh that's exactly what I'm hoping for in my wildflower patch...isn't it lovely? :)

Think this is the second or third year for it now.

..and I bet it's more than a metre square too? lol ;)

Um yes, didn't measure it but I think it's bigger than my garden (not difficult!)

...as I thought! lol...why do I attempt such ridiculous projects...but you never know..the plants are growing beautifully with all the rain and one is even flowering!

Lovely, I was more businesses did this.

They have lots of land, Karen and Drc, Webbs has been a nursery for years and is now a very large GC, they have riverside gardens and some small show gardens.

Lovely idea HB, perhaps it will get better?

I wonder what it depends on? Soil? Seeds? Weather?

Ah so that's what my wild flower bit at the front is meant to looks like! its so pretty :)

Such a pretty picture Sticki, love the colour of those poppies. Wish I could get around to a meadow wild flower area...not as simple as it sounds!!
I think Tetbury are preparing their wild flower area again. Looks like all the grass is removed, a quick weed kill and then the sowing of the seeds.
Your photo is stunning.

Is that the pic you showed us last year Lulu?

It is Pixi...well done for remembering!

Oh how could I not remeber that it was beautiful! That inspired me to do a wee one here..but its not really working. thosands of seeds ive put it in and only lupins daisies and not sure if they are french mariglods or Rudbeckia. oh a and one Corn cockle!

Love corncockle,s so pretty. well done for giving it a go. Last year I planted a wild flower mix David brought me, in a big pot so I could keep an eye on them. It worked well.

I got mine form ALdi 2 packs of them iwith thousands of seeds!

I will ask how they made this, thank you lulu and pixi

A lovely sight to see, may try a mix next year in a big pot like Lulu;0)

yes lovely piece of music for it to, goes well :-)

Beautiful photo Sticki . . . try it with this :-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MndpWBRgYxE

sounds lovely PP, look forward to seeing that
always liked that music SL
thanks muddy ~ loved your music choice, a favourite of mine for a very long time. thank you.

Love the violin..wish I had kept it up! and the piano too..sadly now I have neither. :(

That's a shame pixi, maybe one day?

Great picture!

thanks michaella, hopefully we will see more and more of this, i saw a small area yesterday in an NGS garden.

It's never too late Pixi . . .
Sticki, your avatar is simply beautiful :-)

oh thank you muddy, its where i would like to be!!!

That's gorgeous, I adore California poppies, I'm also itching tO yank out the willow herb!!!!

maybe i should tell the GC about the willow herb??

Round here it tends to be the smaller GCs which do things like wildflower meadows - well patches. Your picture is lovely. I have loved wildflowers since childhood but find they don't do that well on my clay soil, tho' I do have buttercups and daisies and dandelions, herb Robert and all the usual suspects which all seem to thrive! I keep a nettle patch too for butterflies to lay their eggs but haven't seen any since the Spring really. :( Sad face ? Looks a bit like a frog.

oh yes, i like that froggy face!!!

Lovely flowers for the butterflies and bees. Trouble is with the weather I haven't seen many insects in the garden.

An occasional bee or butterfly when it finally stops raining but otherwise it's just slugs and snails!
The wretched lily beetle still seems to survive though!

Beekeepers must be having a struggle keeping their bees going this year.

i would think they are, as if things werent tough enough!