Front lawn (2)

Low maintenance :-)

Not when I'm weeding out the sycamores!

I'm fascinated by bluebells which arrived on their own, and what type of campanula is it? Imagine this must be great for wildlife.

I have lots of bluebells in spring and there are actually quite a lot in the border on the front edge of the path. They seed quite prolifically - did you know? I didn't realise that until I thought about how they were spreading.
It is campanula poscharskyana - amazingly invasive, but so pretty and fairly easy to pull up. It grows all over my garden - I leave it by the walls and then pull it up when it's flowered. I'll never be able to get rid of it, even if I wanted to! The area is good for wild life - loads of insects. I have lots of bees and hoverflies.

I have same campanula. Don't really understand about the bluebells as I thought they were bulbs!! There's just so much about gardening that I don't know - even after 30 years or more!!! Still, it's always good to learn.

They are bulbs, but they also produce seed. The pods get larger and larger after the flowers have finished. No wonder they are so successful! I think the plants must develop much faster than other more cultivated bulbs. And I have had them in the garden for years and years, so who knows how long they've been developing?

poses the question which came first eh! lol snowdrops do this very well too. it would be fun to take seeds and try and grow them on but am afraid I have not got that sort of patience. lol I am the sort of gardener who wants plants NOW and they take ages grown from seed. Oh to be more patient, it could save me a lot of money. lol I wonder if you will be able to keep your hands off that wild grass/flower area, or will you get fed up and cut it although think you should cut it after they plants have seeded as they do in the wild meadows and spread the seed about a bit. Good luck with this project, keep us updated :O)

I'll be cutting it in September, I think. I really don't know whether I'll keep it or not. I'm a bit like you with seeds, though I have grown my own cosmos and sweet peas this year. I always used to start off my tomatoes from seed as well, but I buy in the plants now - I only grow 8 or 9, so I always had far more than I needed. My sisiter grows loads ofd things, very successfully. (I always forget to water mine - terrible admission!)

I've mown them both now. They had gone over a bit by the time I cut it. I'm not sure what to do with them, to be honest. I think I might go on developing this one but keep the other one mown. I was thinking of putting a whole load of spring bulbs into the other one. I might do that. (There's nothing like decisiveness, is there!)