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problem grass verge
susie61
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Help please.We have a grass verge about 10ft wide and 60ft long running along the roadside of our garden.It's the other side of a leylandii hedge. We live among fields and the wind is very strong and cold most of the time. I would like to plant a wildflower 'meadow' out there but don't know how to start and if it would work.
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Thanks pansyface. The verge is definitely ours and the council don't do anything here. We are in the middle of the marsh just off the wash on the lincs/ norfolk border. The verge is a pain to cut every couple of weeks and I thought a 'wild flower meadow' would look lovely and mean cutting only two or three times a year. I was hoping for self seeders but don't know which would survive the cold winds here.
Very little grass is just grass. Most have a selection of wildflowers already there unless lawn weed killer has been used. I'd stop mowing for a few weeks and see what you've got. If you dig up and re-seed you'll allow loads of plants you haven't chosen to get a hold.
When you see what you've got you can add more. A good packet of yellow rattles spread around after the last mowing will reduce the grass and give the chosen plants more space. Dog daisies, musk mallow and lesser knapweed are among the easiest to get established in grass.
An annual wildflower mix out there would be a lot more work than grass
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks for your help.I thought it would it would look very pretty but as you say nutcutlet it would be hard work to keep up and I don't want it to look a mess like the roundabout pansyface mentioned. Maybe I'll just keep the grass or maybe pots would be the answer to brighten it up. Thanks again, appreciate the advice.
I've just come back from watching the Tour de France in the Yorkshire dales and the verges there were very pretty with a lilac/blue geranium amongst the grass. Also my nose spotted some sweet Cecily growing too, it had been battered a bit by people admiring the yellow sheep, so it had released its fragrance.
I haven't tried that one in grass Fleurisa. I'm always putting something more out in the meadow. I don't care what it is as long as it will grow in grass and please me and the insects. I'll scatter some seed out there when it's ripe.
In the sticks near Peterborough