Enhancing your Wildflower Meadow

Enhance Grass Control: A Scientific Approach to Wildflower Meadow Management

 

Last year’s unusually wet and mild weather brought a particular challenge, leading to the ‘year of year of the grasses’. Across the UK, grasses thrived and in…

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Why Autumn is the Best Time to Sow Wildflower Seeds

Did you know that autumn is one of the best times to sow wildflower seeds? Read on to discover why autumn seed sowing gives your wildflowers the ultimate…

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Managing your meadow in a heatwave: The Summer Drought Cut explained

Summer 2025 has seen unusually hot and dry weather across the UK. The intense heat and lack of rain have significantly accelerated and shortened the lifecycle of…

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Top 5 Ecological Roles of Wildflowers in Urban Environments

 

In our rapidly urbanising world, the expansion of cities often comes at the cost of nature. In the UK alone, we’ve lost a staggering 97% of our wildflower meadows

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Spring Wildflower Maintenance: Your guide to the ‘Chelsea Chop’

Named after the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the Chelsea Chop is an optional late Spring cut that helps to rebalance a wildflower meadow, extend the flowering period and encourage…

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No Mow May 2025: Let Your Lawn Grow Wild

 

Happy No Mow May!

What is no ‘No Mow May’?

Today marks the start of No Mow May, a simple yet powerful movement championed by the British conservation charity…

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June is a great time to spot and identify wildflowers, note where they are and consider collecting their seed at a later date when the plant matures and has developed viable seed.
Sowing the seed you have collected is a…

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Wildflower Turf has been receiving a great deal of interest from Universities in recent months.  In May our MD James Hewetson-Brown was a key note speaker at the University Horticultural Officers Conference at Heriot Watt University http://bit.ly/2rlGmEd. However…

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Wildflower Turf meadows require minimal maintenance. However, every Autumn your meadow will require a little attention and September and October is the ideal time to carry out the task of cutting if you have not already done so.
No two…

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This autumn, we are excited to be launching our new range of scatter bulb mixes that have been specifically chosen to enhance your wildflower areas. They are easy to incorporate into your garden designs whilst laying your wildflower turf….

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