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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Wildflower meadows don’t happen by accident. Behind every drift of Ox-eye Daisy and Common Knapweed swaying in a July breeze sits a season or two of unglamorous groundwork: getting the fertility down, clearing the competition, timing the sow and, above all, cutting at the right moments afterwards. Learning how to establish a wildflower meadow properly
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The British landscape is undergoing a quiet revolution. Once viewed purely as an aesthetic choice for rural fringes, wildflower meadows have moved to the center of UK environmental policy and urban design
