Poppies and cornflowers are quite the prettiest of weeds. This year, I decided to jazz up my vegetable patch using a packet of wildflower seeds from The Balcony Gardener. I followed the normal steps for creating a meadow, and sowed the seeds in rows between my autumn-planted onion sets, and amongst my carrot seeds.
Now the mini meadow is in full bloom, and looks so cheery and happy among all the crops. I was especially enchanted by the effect I created by mixing bold red corn poppies with the ferny foliage of my carrots.
These seeds aren’t really wildlfowers: many of the poppies that sprung up are cheery cultivars, but they look fabulous. I’m leaving the seedheads to develop and rattle their produce all over the patch: these weeds are here to stay.
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Julie
I love this idea and poppies are some of my fave flowers. I’ll have to try this next year
Jacqueline Tinney
Wow! These photos are beautiful!
Nick
I don’t want to sound pedantic, but these – very beautiful and helpful – flowers are arable annuals and don’t of themselves constitute a meadow, mini or not! A meadow is something altogether much richer and more complicated…
isabel
good point Nick, although I’m not pretending to create the ecosystem of a wildflower meadow, which takes up to 100 years to establish. I’m just trying to jazz up my veg plot!