Choosing native wildflowers is key to creating a successful self-seeding meadow. Native plants are well-adapted to your local climate and soil, making them more resilient and easier to care for.

"Wildflower meadow lawns are gaining in popularity as people become more aware of the environmental implications of lawn ...

A meadow rich in wildflowers can make an attractive ... It contains 50 per cent grasses and 50 per cent native wildflowers, including ox-eye daisy, bugle, yarrow, yellow rattle and birds-foot ...

‘Have we got that one?’ ‘What is it?’ ‘Is it rare?’ Fast forward 65 years and I now preside over my own wildflower meadow: two acres of it, sown by hand more than 10 years ago. We bought two acres of ...

Farmers are turning degraded land into wildflower meadows and some industrial sites are being rehabilitated with native plants. Professor Nick Williams, Urban Ecologist from the University of ...

Established wildflower meadows have complex root systems, which makes the soil very stable. This helps to mitigate flooding by holding on to rain water, and stops nutrients from washing away. Native ...

and always use UK native seeds to ensure that you aren’t introducing any alien species. TIP: Lots of wildflower seed mixes include yellow rattle seed. Yellow rattle is parasitic to grass, so will stop ...

Help restore prairie by collecting native wildflower seed this fall at Carver (Victoria), Crow-Hassan (Hassan Township) and Murphy-Hanrehan (Savage) park reserves. Volunteers help increase the ...

Growing native wildflowers is an excellent way to provide the ... from simply mowing less frequently to installing a wildflower meadow. Check out our article on how to grow a lawn that's better for ...

The demonstration garden, and the over 17-acres that surround it, were heavily impacted by the LNU Lighting Complex Fires in ...

New wildflower grasslands are to be developed in the Cotswolds to allow native species to return to ... species and keep these wonderful, buzzing meadows and grasslands full of life for ...