Wild flower patch for Tuesdaybear

Went searching for bees, as this is usually humming with them. Is it too hot?! (26 degrees, 11.00am). There was one on the clover in the lawn though :)

That's a pretty patch Sheila :o)

thanks Annie - though not quite what I'd planned :)

I like that, Sheila!!!

Thanks Mel :) I sowed masses of mixed wildflower seed in little trenches last year, after digging over the patch 3 times(!) (OH, me, and a gardening friend once each) - but the cow parsley has still taken over!

are you sure there wasn't cow parsley in the seed mix, Sheilabub? ;-) wildflowers are a hardy lot. I have found that in order to get rid of some grasses, it's been necessary to dig over the bed and seive the soil...tiny pieces of roots remain and re-establish so quickly and passing the soil thro a strainer helps remove some grubs, and gravel too. It's hard work tho. I bought a piece of hardware cloth about 4 ft square and attached two by twos to two sides with staples and drape it over my wheelbarrow....and I wear gloves! Personally, I've given up on dictating to the "wildflowers"... I let them establish and if I don't want them I yank them out! Ninja gardening...banzaiiii! X-)

Thanks Lori, but "no" . . . I mixed the seed myself: chose Corncockle, Cornflower, flax, yellow rattle, Nicandra (shoo-fly flower) and Poppies. Well done for your hard work, and I'm now thinking 'what will be, will be'!

that sounds like the voice of wisdom, S. ;-)

You put this on for me and I didn't even find it!!! So sorry. As I've written on another photo, I've been missing activity from some of my 'favourites' and you seem to have been a casualty. The wildflower meadow looks great, Sheila - even if it's taken me 3 weeks to admire it. The best I managed is two clover circles in the back lawn which we left for the bees; it was supposed to be 3, as I like odd number arrangements, but - whoops, too late - OH had mowed straight over where patch number 3 should have been. Never mind. A Green Thumb chap was doing house-to-house today and asked if we'd like a trial of weed-killer and feed for the lawn. When I said, only if it can be done organically and explained about the clover patches for the bees, he clearly thought he was dealing with a mad woman.

Thank you Tuesdaybear. This patch has now been scythed by OH, and as we had a downpour today (hurray), we shall soon be able to dig it over. I am determined to have a "carpet" of small wild flowers next summer without ANY Cow parsley!!

Glad you're hanging on to your clover for the bees :))