Meadow Strip

I have been pretty busy over the summer months as well as into the winter. However, i always take the Christmas period off. This has given me a chance to finally update my blog.

If you are lost to what to do with a scrap of garden in full or part sun, well turn it into a meadow strip. It will provide pollinators with a valuable food source throughout the summer. I tend to leave some patches of a meadow uncut until early spring. The seed yields food bird and the uncut vegetation provides shelter for many invertebrates over the winter months. Invertebrates such as ladybirds and moths can over winter in an uncut section of a meadow. These uncut patches can be a valuable mosaic of habitat and allow species to complete their life cycles. Spiders use the uncut skeleton of wild carrot to hang their webs.

Anyway, the pictures below are a project in which i turned a unused scrap of garden into a meadow.

I planted up with Echinacea, Verbena, Yarrow, Paper Daisy, Pheasant Eye, Pot Marigold, Cornflower, Dwarf Morning Glory, Corn Marigold, Evening Primrose, Forget-Me-Not, Four o’ Clock, California Poppy, Baby's Breath, Chamomile Daisy, Love-in-a-Mist, Corn Poppy, Corncockle, Golden Tickseed, Blue Lupin, Borage, Purple Tansy, Blanket Flower, Clarkia, Cosmos Mixed Clovers, Marsh Mallow, Clovers, Yellow Rattle, Corn Marigold, Dahlia, Virginia Stock, Chinese Forget-Me-Not, Blue Flax & Dames Rocket.