WILD WAY: JUNE 2023

10 x WILDFLOWERS TO GROW, MANAGING NATURALISM, WHITE ALLIUMS, HAWTHORN

TIPPING THE BALANCE

If I were sensible I would have started our main garden by planting one small area. Only when those plants were fully grown, would I move onto the next area, before repeating this process seven or eight times. But I am not sensible.

Instead, I’ve tried to do the whole garden at once without enough plants. I don’t have enough because I also want to grow everything from seed, cutting or small plant, which has left too much soil bare in these early years, tipping the balance in favour of self sown wild plants to take over. In the middle of a farm full of wildflowers, there is a phenomenal number of self sowing plants!