Wildflower Garden: How to Plan, Sow and Grow a Wildflower Meadow for Bees, Butterflies and Birds

The seed packet shows poppies and cornflowers in a blaze. You scatter it over a patch of lawn, water it faithfully, and by August you have thick, tufty grass, a few docks and one apologetic cornflower. Nothing was wrong with the seed. A meadow wants poor soil rather than rich, a hay cut rather than a weekly mow, and patience measured in years. Get those right and meadows are not difficult at all.

Wildflower Garden explains how to plan, sow and look after a meadow that offers food and shelt...