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growing wildflowers for bees and butterflies

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    they'd prefer some sun.

    They're totally hardy and probably be happy anywhere. On another thread recently someone suggested burying the pots in soil to protect the roots. That might be worth considering

     



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Good idea Nutcutlet - think I'll try that!  Many thanks!

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  • Thanks Hollie - can't wait to see them in flower next year.  We don't have

    any wild cowslips or primroses here at all, so hopefully, if these get going

    they will spread to other areas eventually. image

  • Can anyone please tell me if "Love in the Mist" is a wild flower as a neighbour

    has kindly given me some seeds and she thinks they are wild flowers, but I'm

    not sure.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    I don't think it's a wild flower here ffb, though I'm sure it is somewhere. further south, Med maybe



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Thanks Nutcutlet - I'll plant them in my "other garden" just in case!!

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    I had a great crop this year, must have been hanging around for a couple of years as none appeared last year



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,110

    Great for goldfinches - even in a town centre my daughter gets goldfinches feeding on the Love in a Mist aka nigella in her back garden. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,612

    My wild flower bit is looking rather messy. OH wants it tidied up. I want to leave it for the birds.

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