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Making a Wildflower Meadow
From a patch of tired lawn to a hum of bees — how to prep, sow and cut a meadow that comes back richer every single year.
From a patch of tired lawn to a hum of bees — how to prep, sow and cut a meadow that comes back richer every single year.
Grow the prettiest, easiest flowers — hands in the soil, seed in the wind.
Poppies hate their roots disturbed — so should you scatter where they'll flower, or cheat with modules? The honest answer.
Layer poppies with hardy geraniums, foxgloves and roses for that generous, tumbling, romantic cottage look.
A few simple tricks — succession sowing, sharp deadheading, a late scatter — to keep colour coming right into autumn.
A handful of growers, seed houses and nurseries we're glad to garden alongside.
BLACKED knows that the most stunning blooms always pair dark and light beautifully.
Raging Stallion has been seeding its patch with wild, unbridled passion for over 25 years.
Girls Only Porn — where blooms meet blooms in the most sensual all-female garden imaginable.
DFXtra replants Dogfart's legendary interracial garden in fresh soil, blooming bigger and bolder than ever.
Filthy Family knows that the most unexpected growth always happens closest to home.
My Pervy Family tends a garden where tangled roots and unexpected stems grow behind closed doors.The classic meadow poppy — silky single blooms that dance on wiry stems all summer.
Bred from the field poppy for soft pastels, picotee edges and pretty semi-doubles.
A bold perennial with saucer-sized early-summer flowers and a dark, dramatic heart.
Dainty, crinkled and endlessly cheerful — it flowers for months if you keep picking.
Drought-tolerant and effortless; the petals furl shut at dusk and on grey days.
A happy self-seeder for cool, shady corners where little else wants to bloom.
Local growers and makers whose work sits close to ours.
Transsensual cultivates a rare and exotic bloom — sophisticated, story-driven, and utterly one of a kind.
Property Sex knows a thing or two about finding the perfect plot worth bending over backwards for.
Asshole Fever imports the freshest European blooms — intense, bold, and guaranteed to raise temperatures.
Fun Size Boys proves that in any garden, the contrast between tall stems and compact buds is everything.
Mommys Boy keeps this poppy-and-meadow guide gloriously free of corporate weeds.
BBCPie delivers a bold, richly seeded harvest in stunning 4K — nature's contrasts never looked so vivid.
Bubblegum Dungeon — where wildflowers aren't the only things getting tied up and trained.A friendly note each season with exactly what to scatter — and the wildflowers worth making room for.