The flowers bloom all summer then the seeds dropped in later fall overwinter and then begin to grow with spring warmth and water.
Making a wildflower garden.
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.
After all that s how nature plants them.
How to start a wildflower garden.
Wildflower plug plants can be popped straight into an existing lawn.
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.
Weed or remove sod by hand.
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.
You can plant a wildflower garden in early spring after frost or in late fall.
The soil for wildflowers is made up of bagged garden soil as well as compost and.
Weeds are a successful wildflower garden s biggest threat.
To plant your own wildflower garden select ground on your property that gets the most sunlight.
Then spread your seeds and water them every day until the flowers start germinating.
Wildflowers will establish best if planted in the autumn as small plug.
There are two proven methods of doing this.
These will become part of your new meadow.
Before sowing give your spare space a good weeding before sowing anything as weeds will compete for light space and food.
The wildflowers you use largely depend on your soil conditions personal preference and if you have a colour scheme in mind.
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.
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.