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Post by 4wd on Oct 5, 2014 20:58:31 GMT
I quite liked this site and their prices are not bad for a few plug plants to put in a garden sized plot treated like hay meadow www.wildflowerlawnsandmeadows.com/Some good advice about removing the material so fertility does not build up and encourage the docks, thistles etc - and the importance of removing weeds with chemical if required. It came up because someone was asking me how they might create a more flowery area rather than mowing all the time. It would be good to see more of this rather than over manicured expanses of lawn - provided they are properly managed not just left to go to weeds.
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Post by Joyce on Oct 5, 2014 21:41:32 GMT
Quite lot of a local Arboretum is now wildflowers and it looked lovely earlier this year. There were still a few more formal borders, so something for everyone.
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Post by 4wd on Oct 6, 2014 7:10:03 GMT
This is the village of Stonegrave near Helmsley, someone has adopted the verges and the wider parts are being given the managed meadow treatment.
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Post by Joyce on Oct 6, 2014 9:38:52 GMT
This seems to be the aim of our village also says an article in Oct Parish News - 'they' have got the grass cutting moved to later in the year except where there are visual safety issues - we've certainly had a lot more butterflies about, but that could also be due to the hot dry summer.
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Post by rgsp on Oct 6, 2014 15:24:05 GMT
Nice idea, and works beautifully in some locations, but not others. The Old Vicarage at East Ruston in North Norfolk has a superb flower meadow, but it's owners are wealthy garden fanatics, and put a huge amount of effort into the area. Futhermore, the garden doesn't have much topsoil over pretty well pure gravelly sand, so once the top is bulldozed off, the subsoil is immediately fit to plant, and desperately hungry, so the wild flowers do well.
By contrast our clay subsoil here is 'orrible looking stuff - yellow, sticky, and very heavy, and will stay bare for 12 months after exposure to air. When stuff does get established though, it's pretty fertile with nothing added: nettles, docks and brambles do well on it right away.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 13:05:17 GMT
Me and my wife love going on meadows, so we wanted to bring meadow to us. Our backyard was dreadful an we decided to redecorate it. It was just too much of a job so we hired professionals and they "fixed" our garden. Now it's beautiful and we spend every free minute in it.
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Post by Joyce on Oct 30, 2014 13:17:20 GMT
That's really beautiful Leo
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2015 19:45:12 GMT
All are really beautiful, but I am searching for something entirely different which will catch everyone's eye. For thsi purpose, I'll have to work really hard and use the exceptional fertilizers.
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