Making A Wildflower Garden

To plant your own wildflower garden select ground on your property that gets the most sunlight.

Making a wildflower garden.

How to start a wildflower garden. Prepare the area by tilling up any grass or weeds. The wildflowers you use largely depend on your soil conditions personal preference and if you have a colour scheme in mind. Weeds are a successful wildflower garden s biggest threat.

The raised bed was built upon a 2 inch 5 cm thick bed of 1 inch 3 cm landscaping rock for drainage and this is not necessary for wildflower gardens not planted in raised beds. Wildflower plug plants can be popped straight into an existing lawn. However as a rough guide you need 1g per square metre of pure wildflower seeds and 5g per square metre of grass and wildflower meadow seeds. After all that s how nature plants them.

Weed or remove sod by hand. Sand helps to keep competing grasses at bay and your wildflowers will thrive in these nutrient poor conditions creating a garden that the bees will love you for. There are two proven methods of doing this. The flowers bloom all summer then the seeds dropped in later fall overwinter and then begin to grow with spring warmth and water.

Before sowing give your spare space a good weeding before sowing anything as weeds will compete for light space and food. The soil for wildflowers is made up of bagged garden soil as well as compost and. For a display of wildflowers in a bed or border lay a couple of inches of inert substrate such as sand and simply sow direct at a sowing rate of 2g per square metre. Then spread your seeds and water them every day until the flowers start germinating.

Of course only you can determine what a weed or wildflower is but for the sake of simplicity you should start your garden with a clean palette and remove all existing vegetation. Our wildflower garden is in a raised bed but you can also plant directly in the ground. You can plant a wildflower garden in early spring after frost or in late fall.