Wild is wild whether it's native or not. The key thing is that the plants are simple rather than double so accessible to insects and have nectar and pollen rather than having been cultivated and bred to sterility.
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there were a few different types of ornamental poppies and i had thousands of seeds from them unfortunately due to my inexperience i put them in a plastic bag and they went moldy
Wild is wild whether it's native or not. The key thing is that the plants are simple rather than double so accessible to insects and have nectar and pollen rather than having been cultivated and bred to sterility.
Yeah, I understand. Put it this way. Nelly, wants to do her bit for British wild flowers and wants to recreate a little piece of the South Downs in her garden. Not being experienced she buys one of these mixes. She puts a lot of effort into getting the meadow right only to find out when she got the kids involved to identifying these wildflowers that they're not wild and they're not British. That poppy, lovely as it is is a garden hybrid. Now, that's great if that's what you want. But labelling them as wild meadow mixes is, I think, misleading. I hate dissection and I will always speak out against it. Again if you want to grow South African meadow plants or American meadow plants thats fine it's your choice. But if you want to grow British meadow plants and you're sold South African plants I think you'd be pretty ticked off and I'd be ticked off for you.
I agree Jim and also although any nectar will do for bees, a lot of our native insects can't survive without the right native plants in the larval stage.
I agree Jim and also although any nectar will do for bees, a lot of our native insects can't survive without the right native plants in the larval stage.
Exactly. I wanted to make that point too but didn't want to go on too much. Obviously I hate deception as much as dissection. Now my computer is able to spell check what I type it’s got all cocky and thinks it knows what I’m thinking too.
There's lots of nectar-producing plants promoted but a really important thing is to ensure a good supply of the larval food plants for our moths and butterflies !!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Wild is wild whether it's native or not. The key thing is that the plants are simple rather than double so accessible to insects and have nectar and pollen rather than having been cultivated and bred to sterility.
there were a few different types of ornamental poppies and i had thousands of seeds from them unfortunately due to my inexperience i put them in a plastic bag and they went moldy
with a bit of luck, some will have self seeded about a bit, and will come up next year.
Yeah, I understand. Put it this way. Nelly, wants to do her bit for British wild flowers and wants to recreate a little piece of the South Downs in her garden. Not being experienced she buys one of these mixes. She puts a lot of effort into getting the meadow right only to find out when she got the kids involved to identifying these wildflowers that they're not wild and they're not British. That poppy, lovely as it is is a garden hybrid. Now, that's great if that's what you want. But labelling them as wild meadow mixes is, I think, misleading. I hate dissection and I will always speak out against it. Again if you want to grow South African meadow plants or American meadow plants thats fine it's your choice. But if you want to grow British meadow plants and you're sold South African plants I think you'd be pretty ticked off and I'd be ticked off for you.
Labelling should be clear and honest.
I agree Jim and also although any nectar will do for bees, a lot of our native insects can't survive without the right native plants in the larval stage.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Go on as much as you like Jim, everyone else does
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hear, hear!
There's lots of nectar-producing plants promoted but a really important thing is to ensure a good supply of the larval food plants for our moths and butterflies !!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.