Choosing native wildflowers is key to creating a successful self-seeding meadow. Native plants are well-adapted to your local climate and soil, making them more resilient and easier to care for.

Allowing grass to grow in some areas encourages native wildflower seed to germinate and spread creating meadows in Ireland.

A meadow rich in wildflowers can make an attractive ... It contains 50 per cent grasses and 50 per cent native wildflowers, including ox-eye daisy, bugle, yarrow, yellow rattle and birds-foot ...

My cheeks still flush just thinking about it. I was touring one of those big, fancy British gardens you see on TV, staring at ...

Wildflower meadows are one of the British countryside's most glorious sights ... 9 miles west of Abingdon A 250-acre meadow restoration project now colonized by native species such as black knapweed ...

Established wildflower meadows have complex root systems, which makes the soil very stable. This helps to mitigate flooding by holding on to rain water, and stops nutrients from washing away. Native ...

Use local seeds where possible, and always use UK native seeds to ensure that you aren’t introducing any alien species. TIP: Lots of wildflower seed mixes include yellow rattle seed. Yellow rattle is ...

Farmers are turning degraded land into wildflower meadows and some industrial sites are being rehabilitated with native plants. Professor Nick Williams, Urban Ecologist from the University of ...

lady’s bedstraw and selfheal — the sheep-strewn meadow banks of the Cotswolds are the canvas soon to be painted with the palette of these native wildflowers, which will appear this summer thanks to a ...

New wildflower grasslands are to be developed in the Cotswolds to allow native species to return to ... species and keep these wonderful, buzzing meadows and grasslands full of life for ...