How to create wildflower patches

[Sweetpea1989]

We have moved into a big garden and there are some big patches of deep borders towards the back that we have cleared from nettles, brambles and ivy but just wont have the time or funds this year to sort.

I was thinking of buying some of those 'bee bombs' or wildflower seed mix and just chucking it down and seeing what happens, am I being naive thinking this will this work? First time owning a proper garden so I have no idea.

Thanks!

We have done this in the past we did the Bee one and the one that did flowers for drying they where excellent just wish we had more space, Home & Bargain often have the boxes cheaper.
WE also bought cheapo shrubs from the Car boot sale as they where much cheaper and fill boarders nicely

Cool thanks!

I don't know what we did wrong but we did exactly this and for some reason it was only tall grasses that came up - they then self seeded across the whole garden. We didn't get a single flower!
Have tried different mixes this year ...

To get the best results you need to deed and strip off the topsoil. Then net and water. It's not as easy as it looks

Yes I think the mistake we made was not proper preparation beforehand.
This time I have weeded first and instead of focusing on wildflower mixes I'm sowing individual plants (mainly herbs) to attract bees and have other garden benefits - borage , hyssop, comfrey...