I Planted A Wildflower Meadow 🌼🐝🦋| Amazing Lawn Transformation | From Seeds to Blooms

Eeekkk !! I'm absolutely thrilled with how this mini wildflower meadow turned out, we've been enjoying it so much (and the bees too!). I hope you enjoy watching it grow as much as we did!
Make sure to check out the videos liked below for all the detail on how we created this annual meadow and take care of it! xx

++ MORE MEADOW VIDEOS

Creating A Wildflower Meadow in a Small Urban Garden ☀️🌱❤️ | Get Ready For Summer!

Preparing My Wildflower Meadow For Winter | After Bloom Care | Seed Saving 🐝🦋

Resowing my mini WILDFLOWER MEADOW 🐝🦋🌱 | Year 2 of turning my lawn into a wildlife heaven

++ ERRATUM
*the soil was covered for 3 months (not 1) from mid Jan to mid April

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[MikeAG]

It is really important to say that wildflower meadows thrive in poorer soil. A rich soil will enable nettles, dock, thistles, and particularly grasses to out-compete the wildflowers....and clay is a rich soil. I certainly wouldn't have added compost. If you have a rich fertile soil you could benefit from adding a lot of sharp sand. Also, your regime at the end of the growing season is important the hay and leaving it in place to drop its seeds in July/ August, then keeping the growth down to ankle height for the rest of the year.
A big tip is to plant a lot of yellow rattle. It is an innocuous almost unseen little plant, but it is semi-parasitic on grass, thus keeping grass down to a manageable level. Grass is one of your biggest enemies with a lawn like this. Also, clovers can be brilliant in a meadow like this, again, suppressing grass, but also flowering beautifully if left to grow undisturbed by a lawnmower.
One of the most fun aspects of a wildflower meadow is to see the changes from year to year, depending on conditions. No two years are the same. I didn't plant any red campion in mine, but it has arrived this year. So has a tiny orchid, which we're watching closely and will try to identify when it gets a bit bigger.

[lordcommandersnow]

Wow that would bring a tear to my eye seeing how well it grew after 2 week holiday. This is beautiful

[limitlessends]

Loved to see that you chose UK natives. It's so important to plant natives to your area. Thank you for doing that!

[DebNYCurl]

Finally a video where they show seeds from start to finish with dates! Thank you!!! I'm going to try this!

[pleatedskirt]

This is far simpler than many assume, and it looks so much better than either a lawn or that bloody astroturf stuff that is devoid of nature. Thank you for sharing, and I hope you continue to enjoy it for many years to come.

[jsmythib]

The micro meadow attracts bees and 241, 000 humans. Impressive, and beautiful :) I am getting ready to plant a mixed fragrant variety, so thankyou for fueling my visions!

[marysmith]

This is the best wildflower meadow I’ve seen! Absolutely stunning :)

[dhammaboy]

I love this!

Having just owned my first lawn in the last 2 years I willl say they’re the most stupid ideas to persist in modern times (the idea came from French aristocrats who used lawns to demonstrate their extreme wealth by showing how they could waste resources on something frivolous)
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Lawns require a heap of maintenance, water & cost - esp if you want them to look good. It’s a waste of your time!
My native gardens require about 50 times less time & cost to maintain than my lawn!

Yes folks - go wildflowers, ground covers, pavers, driftwood, nice rock work! 👌🏻Look how nice these wildflowers are!

You will also have a mcih more unique and original lawn than everyone else.

My next house will have no lawn!

[sallybennett]

I love how wild flower and grass mixes change every year, last year we had mainly shorter stemmed flowers like Poppies of all colours, this year we have a sea of sky blue Chicory over 6'0'' tall! Can't wait to see what comes next spring.

[rsoubiea]

I bet the bees and humming birds love this.

[jocmtl]

This is so beautiful! As I child I used to sit in a meadow on some vacant land next to my house and I would marvel at the beauty of all the flowers, I couldn’t believe how many there were and that they were just there, like little treasures. Enjoy your treasures!

[oliverhawkins]

Lovely end result, and I love to see people proposing wilding up a garden! However, I fear for the longevity. Tip for people looking to emulate this, wildflower meadows prefer poor nutrient soil - clay is nutritionally dense so does not need compost added to it. Sharp sand for drainage makes sense, maybe fine top soil to help seeds germinate etc, but not more organic matter.

[irmabronder]

Beautiful! I love flowers. Looks great your meadow! I wish more people look after bees by growing flower meadows. Bees are our life. ❤

[JeffreyPillow]

Amazing transformation. I'm planning to do this soon in an area of my yard where HOA can't see :) I got really into birding during the pandemic. From there, my interest grew in native insect pollinators and finding ways to create plant/flower corridors throughout my yard for them to buzz about.

[amandasmith]

You can cut the heads of some of the flowers and make teas from these that are so nutritional and taking of the head of the plants encourages more to grow x

[blossomwithgrace]

I smiled from ear to ear watching this video

[mamacita]

You’ve inspired me to make my own! Thank you for keeping a record of the process I didn’t know it could be so easy(I say that now) yours turned out stunning I hope mine can be as great as yours

[frenchlatinoboyfrenchlatin]

Congratulations !

When you love plants and gardening, those little simple things can make you happy.

[winskypinsky]

What an inspiration! This is my year too for my wildflower meadow patch. I am planting it beside my garden and have chosen a Bee Mix and Butterfly mix. So excited for gardening! 💐 Thank you.

[cassyanne]

I love this! I'm going to do it in my front garden. 💖