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I know right.
A lot of it comes down to an under appreciation of how incredible grass is as a plant. It's the first thing to grow after fires. It just needs the smallest pile of dust build up in a grout line, or against a wall to grow from. It spreads everywhere.
That's what you're up against.
These new big wild meadows are sown onto ploughed fields and take something like 5yrs to really get going.
I'm glad the bit I've tried in vain to wild is now going to be something completely different.
hugo7-
Dandelions are another plant that grows in cracks, perhaps dandelion "lawns" are the future ;)
What is your new plan? :)
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A lot of it comes down to an under appreciation of how incredible grass is as a plant. It's the first thing to grow after fires. It just needs the smallest pile of dust build up in a grout line, or against a wall to grow from. It spreads everywhere.
And yet somehow in my garden, I could barely get it to grow for 5 years.
JWestland
Tonts
In a way it is so strange, to me, that a wild flower meadow that is "acceptable" the pretty photogenic ones are so hard to get started.
When if you just dig over your "proper" lawn and let nature take its course, you should get wild flowering grasses, buttercups, sorrels (it depends on the soil / area what you get) and wildlife aplenty.
I found many caterpillars hiding under long unmoved wild grass in the new place (I moved them of course under grass) and the back is full of buttercups, midges (the local bat has to eat...), angle shades moths, butterflies, red soldier beetles etc.
Then you can adjust as time goes on, I will remove some sorrel (that stuff spreads!!! but the deep roots also help the soil) and put loosestrife in. But my backgarden lawn definitely isn't "gardening magazine" ready. In that sense it's a very human prettified view of a flowering lawn.