Tried to start a wildflower patch in the garden this year, completely digging it over back in March. Looked pretty terrible for a while, and I sowed in a complete mix from emorsgate and a cornflower mix to try provide a bit of cover. Main winners have been a surprise mix of things I haven’t planted, common mallow, petty spurge and ubiquitous creeping buttercup. Got some salad burnet, musk mallow and corn cockles coming through though too, and hoping more next year. Am I correct in thinking best way to manage it is cut from autumn, plant some yellow rattle and then keep short until next April?
Oke doke. Does it seed especially vigorously? If it makes up majority of next years growth will snip it back. Also had a couple of these spikey leaved plants come through - are these cowslip or something else?
Tried to start a wildflower patch in the garden this year, completely digging it over back in March. Looked pretty terrible for a while, and I sowed in a complete mix from emorsgate and a cornflower mix to try provide a bit of cover. Main winners have been a surprise mix of things I haven’t planted, common mallow, petty spurge and ubiquitous creeping buttercup. Got some salad burnet, musk mallow and corn cockles coming through though too, and hoping more next year. Am I correct in thinking best way to manage it is cut from autumn, plant some yellow rattle and then keep short until next April?