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Post by kentyeti on Jul 5, 2022 8:00:04 GMT
My back garden is mainly wildlife friendly around the edges, but I have failed to get any small areas to develop into a small wildlfife friendly 'meadow'.
Step in William who keeps my front, side and back gardens in good order. In 2021 he had the first year of having converted one of his own lawns into a wildlife friendly area, and suggested he did that to my back lawn. To which I readily agreed!
So, from mid 2021 he started a lengthy spell of fastidious work in preparing the area, culminating in sowing the seeds in Spring this year.
The result has surprised us both! Someway above what he said I'd get in the first year.
The bees and insects are loving it!
Cannot upload the photo, even though it is well under the 1 MB limit!
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Post by rowanberry on Jul 6, 2022 6:31:01 GMT
Sorry about the photo... unfortunately, ProBoards (our forum host) has a VERY limited storage space for photos.
For a while I tried going back and deleting old photos to make more room, but I couldn't keep up, (and the cost of extra space was eye-watering.)
What everyone does now is link to a Flickr account, or Imgur (I think that's how it's spelled?) or any of the image hosting sites (I think even Google do one?)
In any case- I'm glad your meadow is doing well. I've discovered that sometimes plants I would ordinarily weed out are ones that attract bees or other insects. There's a water figwort that comes up next to our birdbath, and even though the flowers aren't anything to look at there is a species of small bee that absolutely loves them!
If you're growing taller plants around the fringes, I would recommend mallow... I've got one that self-seeded in the comfrey patch, and the bees are on it all day long.
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