Best Flowers To Sow In A Wildflower Meadow

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Tuesday November 18th, 2008

The Wildflower Meadow
What Are The Best Flowers
To Buy And Sow?

Ox Eye Daisy

Knapweed

For ‘tall’ haymeadows:

Field Scabious	Meadow Cranesbill (L)	Ox-eye Daisy
Teasel	Musk Mallow	Greater Burnet (damp)
Greater Knapweed (L)	Meadow Buttercup	Lady’s Bedstraw
Lesser Knapweed (Hardhead)	Red Campion	Yarrow
Vetches

Red Campion

For ‘short’ meadows:

Cowslip (L) (SF)	Meadow Buttercup	Lady’s Smock
Yellow Rattle (SF)	Red Campion	Snakeshead Fritillary
Self Heal	Betony	Lesser Stitchwort
Ox-eye Daisy	Cat’s Ear	Yarrow
Rough Hawksbit	Lady’s Bedstraw	Bluebell (native, not Spanish)

(L) = Best in limey areas, but worth a try elsewhere
(SF) = Must be sown fresh

Try to use native-origin seed, not continental.
By all means collect seed from wild plants, but NEVER dig them up.

Yellow Rattle

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