Topic: Really pleased with my wildflower patch...

[kippers garden]

Inspired by the Sarah Raven program re wildflowers, I planted my own this year.  It's alive with insects.

I'm so pleased with it i've posted some pictures (15th August) and how wrote how I did it.  Here's the link:

http://notjustgreenfingers.wordpress.com/

You can see the pictures a bit better on the slide show at the bottom of this page.  Here's the link:

http://notjustgreenfingers.wordpress.com/allotment-flowers-with-pictures/

(though there are other flowers on my allotment here too)

[pumkinlover]

that;s brilliant! I must get round to doing something like that!

[caroline7758]

That's lovely- thanks for sharing. I sowed some wildflower seeds in my front grass and got nothing. I let the back grass grow and got lots of lovely clover, self-heal and various other small flowers, but nothing as lovely as yours! What seed did you use?

[kippers garden]

Thanks.  I used a mixture of seed from free packets of seeds I had been given over the last 3 years and I also brought a 'bumblebee mix' from Marshalls that contained phacelia, borage and red clover.  I'm really hoping that they self seed for next year.

[shirlton]

Mne was atotal disaster. I spent £10 on seeds and only afew came up. I am going to plant a perrenial border in the autumn

[Kleftiwallah]

I planted up small squares of various 'wild flower' seeds beside my allotment to see which would grow best in our type of soil.

The council came along and strimmed the lot -

AND I HAD PREVIOUSLY TOLD THEM WHAT I WAS DOING!

Cheers,    Tony.

[kippers garden]

I planted up small squares of various 'wild flower' seeds beside my allotment to see which would grow best in our type of soil.

The council came along and strimmed the lot -

AND I HAD PREVIOUSLY TOLD THEM WHAT I WAS DOING!

Cheers,    Tony.

Oh no that's terrible

[kippers garden]

I sowed this years wildflowers seeds a couple of week ago...has anyone else sowed wildflower seeds this year?

[kippers garden]

Yes I have again, you can see my patch on my blog post slideshow...it's on photo's 32 and 33 here:

http://notjustgreenfingers.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/happy-birthday-not-just-green-fingers-blog/