Has anyone had success with a wildflower border?

[Rosemaryandlavender1]

I have a small shady and rather neglected border on one side that doesn't get much sunlight but is great at growing weeds. I was thinking of scattering wildflower seeds and just hoping for the best. These ones on amazon have OK reviews. Has anyone had any luck with the same or simila?

I believe Christopher Lloyd did.

The blurb mentions foxgloves and forget-me-nots. They are biennials, you won't see flowers off them until next year.
But I've found the box advertised elsewhere - there seem to be annuals (will flower this year) in there, too.

Other sites seem to have it cheaper than your £12.99.

Thank you

Has anyone had luck with any other brands for wildflower seeds?

Yes, Meadowmania is a good site for wildflower seeds and they have a mix for shady borders.

Would you consider letting the weeds flower? They may be quite pretty! Most garden "weeds" are actually our native wildflowers! And if they are self seeding themselves there they are likely to thrive in those shady conditions.

Depending on your seed mix most wildflowers that grow in a typical meadow like poor soil and plenty of sunshine

You could absolutely give it a go! Take over the soil and scatter seed, and see what happens! Just keep birds away from the seed.

If it doesn't work, you might get more reliable results planting some bulbs of shade loving plants such as bluebells or cyclamen? Hellebores also love shade :)

I have got a wild garden that I started a year or so ago.
we got rid of all the grass, raked over the soil and I just threw down hundreds of wildflower seeds that are supposed to be perennials.
we got lots of poppies and big daisies, cornflowers, forget me nots etc.
Plus other plants that I didn’t know.
I left it to do it’s own thing and it was a lovely mess 😆
The bees loved it!
After everything finished flowering we strimmed it and left the flowers to dry as they then drop their seeds apparently.
Its completely separate to the rest of the garden and so it doesn’t matter if the weeds spread.
I’m not into gardening at all but really enjoyed seeing how it changed over the summer.
I did it for the bees and butterflies rather than what it looked like but I am looking forward to seeing what happens this year😊

I did leave it be one year and it just looked really messy and not much colour so I have dug it all up in the hopes to try this instead.

Thank you I will have a look.

I tried, and it didn’t work at all. I think it might depend on your soil type, we have very heavy clay and it was having none of it!

Stunninggg 😍😍
This is exactly what I had in mind. Any particular brand of seed you used? Well done to you that looks amazing. Hopefully it all comes back agaij this year.

It's one of the most difficult sorts of gardening to pull off well. Ideally you need to live on the Chiterns or the South Downs. It's even more difficult in shady locations. But foxgloves and Welsh poppies would be a good start.

Thank you! I’m sure a lot of people would hate it as it’s so messy but I loved it!
I went to a garden centre and just bought loads of packets of wildflower seeds that were not annuals. Probably quite a few different brands.
I was given a pack of bee bombs and also bought some seeds from the Tower of London when they filled the moat with wildflowers a few years ago.
This bit of garden gets very little sun and it’s very heavy clay soil.
Go for it!!😊😊