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I don't think you can realistically grow a wildflower meadow in one single bed and make it look good.
Instead, you could plant ornamental grasses and, if it gets enough sun, mix them in with verbena bonariensis, prairie perennials like your echinacea, and annuals like poppies, cornflowers or cosmos. That way you might achieve a sort-of-naturalistic look.
lemonade-
in my head, its more that the 'lawn' would be more heavily planted/disrupted in the area I've labelled 'wildflowers'. We're not fussed about having a proper lawn, its a smaller garden than my drawing makes it looks, my OH just wants somewhere to sling the lounger. Definitely going to involve some cosmos, that's a great shout, we've got some mixed in with erigeron in containers already.
@hugo7 your input in this thread lately is mainly what's got me thinking about it properly, decided it was time to write some shit down!
jackbepablo
in a fit of fairly severe procrastination, I've started sketching out what I think I want to do with the garden. We moved in about 9 months ago, garden is shit and I had hoped to have made a start on some of the prep during the autumn, but this did not happen (opposite 'future workshop' is the base of a former workshop which is going to need smashing up and removing, so no idea how decent the soil is on that side but it gets good sun).
Main aims are to hide the fences where possible, add year-round interest and keep thing's nature-friendly. A sparrowhawk has been spotted in the garden before, probably coz we get a lot of small birds. Woodland area is overshadowed by a tree in next door, but I want to mix in lupins, echinacea and stuff, hopefully they'll be ok. It's mainly ivy at the moment.
Future workshop will only come in when the conservatory comes down.
So, hive mind. What mistakes am I going to make?