Knowing how to sow yellow rattle properly is the difference between a meadow that opens up within two or three years and a sowing that simply never appears. Yellow rattle (Rhinanthus minor) is the most useful plant there is for turning a grassy lawn or paddock into a wildflower meadow, but it is also the
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Planting wildflower bulbs in autumn is the simplest way to bring colour to a meadow, a hedge bank or a shady corner months before anything else is flowering. A drift of wild daffodils under a field hedge in March, snowdrops along a woodland edge in February, bluebells beneath trees in May: these are the plants
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From Cotswold limestone to Chiltern chalk and Thames-side clay, Oxfordshire’s ground varies hugely. Here’s how to choose wildflower seeds that fit yours.
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Wildflower Seeds for Hertfordshire: Native Mixes for Chalk, Clay and the Chess and Lea Valleys Hertfordshire runs from chalk uplands in the west and north down to London Clay in the south, with a network of river valleys cutting alluvial strips through the middle. That geological range means there’s no single answer to “what wildflower
Wildflower Seeds for Surrey: Native Mixes for Chalk Downs, Greensand and Heathland Surrey packs an unusual amount of geological variety into a small, heavily wooded county. The North Downs run chalk from Farnham through Guildford, Dorking and Box Hill towards the Kent border. South of that ridge sits the Greensand, its sandy hills rising around
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