Wildflower seeds?

[JazzAnnNonMouse]

Do they end up looking like the pictures on the packet or do just look like a bunch of weeds?

Ooh, I'd be interested in knowing this too, as am thinking of sewing some (total gardening novice). Would be sad if my hardwork just swapped the existing weeds for new weeds!

I've got a border of wildflower seeds. Some grasses and some weeds (geranium robert and hawksmead dandelion, mostly) sprouted between but they're easy to pick out.

So a little more like a meadow than the box, but not ugly.

*hawksbeard, not hawksmead

Does it look grassy?
I would like the look that I've seen on Pinterest - borders of wildflower, lots of colour and good for the bees but doesn't look like a completely neglected part of the garden.

This my second year doing a wildflower patch and it looks great! I had a patch of raked earth which I netted off and waited....did get some bits of long grasses which I pulled out. Then in the autumn I collected all the seed heads and saved for this year. They did a pretty good job of self seeding themselves also. Thinking of doing more areas as very low maintainence and I love it! Got a box of seeds from local garden centre which were about £10. I think if you add yellow rattle it keeps the grass back.

they look lovely BUT...... once they have flowered they very quickly can look messy. that is the bit I haven't yet perfected.

How long do they flower for? Do
You cut them back when they've finished flowering?
I don't want it to look messy !

Mine have look nice all summer so far, I think they have different plants that flower at different times. End of summer it looks a bit messy as need to let the seed heads dry

And do you find you're still constantly de weeding or do the flowers 'take over' more than the weeds?!

I don't weed that bit at all! Think it's much easier than all the other parts if the garden!

Hi JazzAnn -

If you have a large enough area to let the wild flowers do their own thing, that's great. But yes, a lot of them, in other contexts, ARE weeds.

There must be plenty of websites dedicated to 'wild flowers', so look for those.

Sarah Raven, I think is quite expert in that area.

[PS: you never did tell me how your Dad knew Miles Davis. And I just seen your other garden query via profile, so will have proper look at that sometime. Have a nice summer with the girls.]