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Wild Flower Meadow

Create a Wild Flower Meadow Garden for Kids,Wildlife Garden and a littel Haven for Kids too

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~ if you have the space in your garden then trey and grow a meadow with wildflowers
~ these attract the local wildlife, birds, butterflies and bees and are beautiful too
~ add a small garden pond and you will have a little wildlife sanctuary at your hands

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~ a wildflower meadow is wonderfully natural looking in any garden
~ it provides a habitat for many insects and small mammals
~ it is a convinient solution for brightening up large areas of grass
~ Maya loves our meadow garden and old-fashioned garden activities like making flower crowns and playing hide and seek are a firm favorite

Watch out for!!
~ perennial wild flower meadows dont tend to flower in the first season after germination
~ so if the kids are disappointed with apparent "failure" reassure that they will succeed next season
How to Maintain a Wild flower Meadow Garden Sowing Wild Flower Seed
~ it is easy to maintain requiring only 1 or 3 cuts a year
~ after the flowers have stopped blooming you need to leave them until they go to seed ( self seeding for next years wildflower blooms)
~ In the followign years, plant additional perennials and grasses to fill gaps and replace annuals.
~ Little Kid Gardeners are often eager to see results
~ it takes patience to grow a good wild flower meadow but kids will be rewarded year after year

~ success rate increased if wild flower seeds are first sown into seed trays, then planted on into small pots
~ let them grown in the pots and plant out in the autumn (about 12 month later)
~ If you are starting a new wild meadow then remove all weeds properly first
~ then sow fresh grass seed at about 1.5 th of the usual recommende rate for your wild meadow patch
~ the grass mixture should not contain any rye grass as it tends to overtake
~ then on top of the grass seed mixture add your wildflower seed mixture
~ Rake the seeds in
~ the ground now needs to be rolled over lightly to firm the seeds in
~ Allow the plants to grow well by keeping the soil evenly moist for the first growing season
~ let the kids pull up invasive weeds, and any tree and shrub seedlings that have found there way here

Choosing Flowers for a Wild Meadow
~ the ideal soil for a wild meadow is poor topsoil

plants for Wild Meadow Gardens

Oxeye Daisy (chrysanthemum leucantheum)
Yellow Rattle ( Rianthus minor)
Poppies
Bachelor's buttons ( selfseeding)
Cosmos ( selfseeding)


Vigorus Grasses
~ Knapweeds ( Centaurea spp.)
~ Musk Mallow ( Malva Moschata)
~ Field Scabious ( Knautia Arvensis)
~ Bladder Campion ( Silene Vulgaris)
~ Tansy ( Tanacetum Vulgare)

Spring Bulbs and Flowers for Wildlife
~ Cowslip ( Primula Veris)
~ Bugle ( Ajuga Reptans)
~ Daisies ( Bellis Perennis)
~ Lady's Smock ( Cardamine Pratensis)
~ Cat's Ear ( Hypocheris Radicata)
~ English Bluebell ( Scilla Nutans)
~ Snowdrp ( Galanthus Nivalis)


Late Flowering Plants

~ Musk Mallow ( Malva Moschata
~ Meadow Clary ( Salvia Pratensis)
~ Hardhead ( Centaurea Nigra)
~ Field Scabious ( Knautia Arvensis)
~ Cornflower ( Centaurea Cyanus)
Wild Meadow Gardening for Kids
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Building a Sensory Garden for Kids, sowing a wild flower meadow and indeed any Gardening with Kids is an exiting adventure,start simple with our gardening resources for kids
and you soon will have a happy little kid gardener too