Wild flowers....

[Bluesheep8]

Hi everyone. We are having a very scruffy, very steep bank at the back of our house cleared professionally (it's too steep to climb up ourselves) and I love the idea of planting a variety of wild flowers there. The seeds I've seen stipulate that you have to start growing them indoors but I just want to be able to scatter the seeds onto the area. Is this possible? Tia

And I've no idea why someone is recommending you grass that, maintaining it is impossible and it would be a mess again within weeks.

Could you turn it into some kind of perennial rockery? They are usually low maintenance plants with slow growth

Thanks again, this isn't our garden though, there is a very narrow lane that runs up the side and round the back of the house. So not our actual garden, but because it's so steep, it's visible from all the windows at the back of the house. Yes, as a pp said, you do see wild flowers in abundance on steep motorway embankments-thats what inspired me. But I think we'll explore the idea of lower ground covering plants as another p.o. suggested.

Wow that's steep :(
Wonder if you'd get away with alpines or heathers?

Yep its almost vertical! I love the idea f a rockery/alpine plants though

Some nice hardy good doers you don't have to get the crampons on to prune

Valerian grows well on poor ground and vertical slopes.

Also Thymes.

minkies crampons - that's hilarious! But unfortunately true, going to have it cleared first then have a proper think. Its very wet here, so maybe just some different grasses so at least it looks greener.

beebumble I will also consider valerian, thank you

Would you be able to get some heavy duty weed suppressant on ot then plant in planting holes in it. I can’t help thinking the weeds are just going to come back....

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Alpines might be a good bet - things like arabis, thrift, aubrieta, saxifrage, and things like thyme, violets and ox-eye daisies. If you plant perennial sweet peas at the top they will cascade down.

You can also get low-growing cotoneasters too.

Don't go for ivy.

Thank you, I will look into all those. I plan to post another pic when It's been cleared at the weekend. Thanks again everyone

I’d want to it a weed suppressant membrane down and plant low shrubs through it. Otherwise you’ll have to weed it.
Can you afford to get a few garden designers in and get ideas off them?

Which way does the slope face, i.e. how much sun does it get?

Nasturtiums grow on poor soil, although they are annuals, once you plant them they self seed and pop up each year.
If you get them, grow the older orange variety, it’s more robust than the fancy colours.

I think the climbers idea is really good.