Wild Flower Garden Watch

A diary of an emerging Wild Flower Garden from srcatch


Wild Flower Garden Watch April

A kindly 90 year old decided that after growing his own vegetables since he was a lad, he would take it a bit easier and not do that in 2015 and he planned ahead to convert his veggie patch into a wild flower garden. Copious amounts of seeds and information were given to him as Christmas prese ...

Wild Flower Garden May

Lots of green shoots are sprouting up, the Wild Flower Garden is looking promising. Please leave comments if you can identify the plants. The first flower to bloom (what is it?) and it looks like the cornflowers will be next... ...

Wild Flower Garden Watch Slideshow 5

The wild flower garden is a riot of colour this month. We now have a sneaking suspicion that a packet of North American wild flowers were mixed with our native ones! One cannot deny that cosmos and one or two others are definitely not British wild flowers. Despite that, the array of beauty i ...

Wild Flower Garden Watch Slideshow 6 - August

The wild flower patch has been a picture to behold, with swarms of insects, bees and butterfies making regular visits. The array of various delicate poppies have been beautiful. Some of the earlier flowers have now set seed and are dropping onto the soil. The gardener has been saving some ...


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