Extreme heat waves are stressful for almost every type of plant in your garden, from flowers and vegetables to shrubs and trees—but especially for container-grown plants.
How to grow wildflowers – add colour to your garden all summer long!
31.07.2024 - 18:33 / themiddlesizedgarden.co.uk / Alexandra Campbell
You can grow wildflowers in a border, a pot and a window box as well as in a meadow.
A good wildflower seed mix can keep flowering with changing flowers for months at a time.
And the cost of a few packets of seeds means that this is a cheap way of getting lots of extra colour.
It’s easy but there are a few things you do need to know.
Note that his isn’t about growing your lawn longer (see Should I do No Mow May or How to Make a Mini Meadow for that).
Nor is it about rewilding (see Serena’s rewilded garden.)
This is about using wildflowers to add colour and biodiversity to your garden.
So I asked Charlotte Denne of Kent Wildflower Seeds to explain it.
The first point she made is that you approach planting native wildflowers in the same way as you do all your other garden plants.
They don’t have a different set of rules. In fact, many ornamental garden plants have wildflower great-great grandparents.
Once I got my head round this, it all seemed much less mysterious.
Do you need to choose native wildflowers?
The issue of native plants varies depending on where you live.
In the UK, ‘native’ often means native to Britain, Northern Europe, parts of Asia and even parts of Africa. We’re connected by land or easily crossed areas of sea to three continents. Trade and migration mean that plants have constantly crossed borders. Ground elder, the most pernicious weed in my garden, was brought here by the Romans in 43AD.
At the opposite end of the spectrum, Australia is surrounded by large areas of ocean. There was no recorded trade or migration of plants, animals or people for hundreds of thousands of years. With the arrival of colonists, there was a sudden influx of non-native plants. Some have proved to be invasive and environmentally damaging.
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