A wild garden of flowers has a really good ring to it. It makes you think of long walks in the forests, collecting plants and then the excitement of building a wild garden that looks so real.
For this sort of garden, many people claim they have no good fortune at all. It’s not a question of chance, but a prerequisite to recognizing, since wildflowers are the same as people, and both have their attributes. In reality, it gets sick and fades away when taken away from its type of conditions. It is enough to let us realize that Nature itself can not be duplicated. Imagine you ‘re hunting for wildflowers. Look at the soil they grow in, the field, the circumstance, the climate and the surroundings as you pick particular flowers from the forest.
Imagine that you are finding dog-tooth violets and wind-flowers clustered nearby. Then plant them in your wild garden precisely the same way. When you consider a par violet that likes an open situation; then it should be planted in the same way in your garden. When you want wildflowers in a regular garden to thrive, make them feel like they’re still wild. Try them into feeling they still live in their natural areas.
Wildflowers should be moved after the flowering period is over. When you go, take a trowel and a bucket along with you. When you pick up a crop, a columbine, or a hepatica, make sure you have part of the plant’s own soil with the roots, which has to be scattered around when putting in your yard.
Before this journey of yours, the plot into which these plants are to be put should be carefully cultivated. Of course, you don’t want to get those plants and be looking at them for a day or night. They should be put straight into their new home. The plot requires deep and fertile soil from the forest and packed with leaf mould. The work of the root drainage should be very good. Plants would then not need to be put in water-logged soil. Some gardeners believe all forest plants would have water-soaked soil. But the wild environments are not water-logged within. You might need to cultivate your garden very profoundly, and lay some stone in the bottom. The topsoil cover should be placed over this. And put a new layer of the good soil you collected from the woods on the earth, where the topsoil had been.
Before planting humidify the soil. Then when you dig spots for plants put a bit of the soil that came with the plant that is to be placed there into each hole.
When you’ve finished the concept, does it work within your budget? If it does, then that’s fine, if not the time to go back and make a few improvements. You would need to have a final shopping list before you head to the garden centre or the store. It will help you remain within budget and make sure all of the supplies are readily available before you start your project.
In cases such as concrete or mulch for walkways, brick for walls, benches, water features or lighting, or any other accessories that you may like to add to your new garden, you would have factored from the design stage. The hardscaping should be complete before you start preparing the ground for planting.
You will now need to figure out the specifications for the plant. Before taking a final decision on plant choices, be sure to remember the following:
In some areas, some plants are invasive and banned from use. If you are not sure about the criteria, please consult your local authority.
They will love your garden conditions.
They will succeed if they do, saving you time, money and the effort to replace those that struggle.
The factors to consider are light moisture, wind factor and type of soil in your garden.
Consider the mature height of a growing plant and its distribution.
It’s tempting but doesn’t overplant, please. The 6 “plant you buy today could grow to a height and spread 6 feet. If you don’t take this into account, you’ll spend several needless hours diluting your garden, rather than just enjoying it.
They should fit in with your current climate.
Colour, height, type of plant, annual or perennial, maintenance continuous.
A simple way to help you select colours that fit together well, use a paint chart and pick from colours in the same category
The completed garden will be at your disposal.
That will be a constant source of pleasure for you.
Maintenance needs must match in with your lifestyle.
Having taken all of the above into account, shop around after you’ve settled on your plant list.
Only choose healthy plants to offer the best possible start in your flower garden.
Wild flowers that attract wildlife
The primrose, or Primula vulgaris, is a low-growing perennial herbaceous plant with pale yellow flowers in early spring. As it flowers early in the year, as does the snowdrop or Galanthus nivalis, it provides an essential first source of nectar for the emerging bees and butterflies. The common foxglove or Digitalis purpurea is a biennial plant with the tall stem in early summer, with pink tubular flowers. Bees and other insects enjoy them.
It was previously considered one of the worst weeds to invade cornfields, corn marigold or Chrysanthemum segetum. However, for its pollen, it is a favourite of hoverflies. It is also true of the cornflower or Centaurea cyanus, a small annual flowering plant with bright blue flowers. It was once considered a weed in crop fields, but in its natural environment, it is now endangered.
Knautia arvensis, or scabious field, is particularly attractive to adult butterflies. It has honeycomb-like lilac-coloured flowers on slender stems from July through September.
Lady’s smock or cuckoo flower (Cardamine pratensis) gets its name because it emerges first in April, much as the cuckoo does. It is a beautiful plant which during late spring / early summer produces pink or white flowers on long, narrow stems. This is the orange tip butterfly food vine. Honeysuckle, or Lonicera, is a summer climbing shrub with strongly fragrant flowers. The plant is particularly valuable to moths because their larvae feed on it. The cowslip, or Primula veris, is a low growing herbaceous perennial grown on a single upright stem with deep yellow flowers in April and May. The name cowslip comes most likely from the Old English word meaning ‘cow dung’ since the plant was often found growing in cow pastures among the manure. The flowers attract long-tongued insects, including bees and moths, which feed on their nectar.