@peteS yes that's my wild bed, and that is indeed red clover next to it. Although I sowed a wild mix, the clover (which @Dovefromabove kindly identified for me earlier this year) blew in from somewhere, so it was a happy accident...
@strelitzia32...out of interest can you recall whose seed mix it was as I've been looking at a few of late, and although they are all much of a muchness, some contain more types of annuals than others, and some mixes contain a mixture of annuals, biennials and perennials.
@strelitzia32...out of interest can you recall whose seed mix it was as I've been looking at a few of late, and although they are all much of a muchness, some contain more types of annuals than others, and some mixes contain a mixture of annuals, biennials and perennials.
@peteS sorry, I can't help much. I usually do an Autumn sowing and spring oversowing to try and get a good display. Last year I distinctly remember using a box of wildflower seed I found in the local garden center, it was the size of a piece of A4, light blue, and had a brand name in some old English style writing, like "Thompson and Morgan" (but it wasn't them). I then over sowed with whatever I could find during lockdown. Not helpful, unfortunately!
Next year rather than wing it, I'm going to make a deliberate effort to buy a proper wild seed mix appropriate for the location, from one of the online vendors.
@strelitzia32...that's interesting...Autumn sowing, then oversowing in Spring. I think that's the method I will try. Your results were excellent this year, and the danger is, and I think I'm approaching this, is reaching a point were you start over thinking the whole process...
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Your plant looks adorable
Next year rather than wing it, I'm going to make a deliberate effort to buy a proper wild seed mix appropriate for the location, from one of the online vendors.
If you google Flax you get...Linum usitatissimum.
Mostly pics of the seeds. Which are sold in supermarkets under the name Linseed.
https://www.google.com/search?q=flax&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiOmdOasqnrAhUFilwKHaO0DgQQ_AUoAXoECBsQAw&biw=1280&bih=579
Phormium tenax...common name is New Zealand Flax...a very different plant!