Working with Wildflowers

Wildflowers generally prefer a soil that has low fertility. Therefore they are great to plant in areas that may not have been cultivated for some while. If the soil has been fertilised or the lawn...

                Seeing wildflowers in fields, woodlands or meadows in nature is a joyful experience with the open expanse, and nature's palette of colours. Yet however large or small...

Field scabious Cornflower   Common knapweed Butterfly numbers have been severely hit in recent years due to loss of habitat and some very wet summers. Planting wildflowers is a way of helping them and also...

      Alder buckthorn and Common buckthorn are the larval foodplants of one of our most spectacular British butterflies, the Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni).  The Brimstone has an interesting distribution in Britain, being much more...

      In the first year after planting a wildflower area , there should be a good number of flowers present often daisies, knapweeds and clover. If planting from potted wildflowers,  flowers will be...

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