Action plan: CIAR BYRNE's essential jobs for your garden this week READ MORE: The joy of raising plants: Children take centre stage at this year's Chelsea show By Ciar Byrne For The Daily Mail Published: 21:08 BST, 19 May 2024 | Updated: 21:09 BST, 19 May 2024 e-mail View comments Sow a mini meadow Ox-eye daisies, birdsfoot trefoil, lady's bedstraw, red campion, musk mallow, salad burnet, and wild carrot are just some of the native UK wildflowers found in the new Marvellous Meadow seed mix created by BBC Countryfile's Adam Henson. May is a great month to sow seed for flowers later in the summer. Henson, who grows wildflower meadows on his Cotswold farm, has brought out five mixes for different garden situations, from sun-loving annual and perennial blooms to seeds suitable for shade or wetlands (wild scapeuk.
com). But he insists you don't have to own a field to grow wildflowers at home. Ox-eye daisies, birdsfoot trefoil, lady's bedstraw, red campion, musk mallow, salad burnet, and wild carrot are just some of the native UK wildflowers found in the new Marvellous Meadow seed mix 'Maybe you've got a backyard and it's all patio.
Then you can have a few tubs, just a bucket, a welly full of mud — anything will do.' These native blooms are brilliant for biodiversity, providing food for birds and pollinating insects and shelter for small mammals. They prefer poor soil, so if you have the space, rake a level seedbed into a corner of your lawn, sow seeds sparingly, tread them in, th.
