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Making a meadow
Lulu The Lurcher
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I attempted to make the orchard area into a meadow but all i got was 1 daisy and a cornflower. The grass is too strong. Would it be ok to use weed killer on the grass and then sow meadow mixes in the autumn and spring?
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I presume you mean a wildflower meadow? Underneath the trees presumably. A little more information would be useful.
Please don't spray off the grass. If yours is an old orchard there will probably be a lot of nice grasses. You need to decide I think whether you want a spring flowering meadow or a summer flowering one and then plant according. Wildflower meadows are not easy and it won't happen quickly. The mowing regime is important. Do some research. Once you decide what you want, I would buy plug plants, grow them on and then plant In your orchard.
Yes I was thinking a wild flower meadow. Oxeye daisies, ragged robin, cornflowers poppies etc. There's 1 old apple tree and 2 apples,1 pear, 1cherry and a plum planted year before last. In think they were 2 years old when planted?
Chemicals is not the way to go for a wildflower meadow.
There are plants that grow in grass, ragged robin and Ox-eye daisies will, though Ragged Robin needs a moistish soil to do well, poppies and cornflowers won't.
Flowers in grass are more appropriate for the setting and as the trees grow and shade the plants those poppy/cornflower type annuals will not do.
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