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Ever wondered what a wildflower meadow looks like before it, well, meadows? Been wondering what all those emerging seeds you might notice in March are? Here's a quick guide to some of the most common species... (the last pic on each is what it looks like May/June!) 🌱🌼
Thread Ever wondered what a wildflower meadow looks like before it, well, meadows? Been wondering what all those emerging seeds you might notice in March are? Here's a quick guide to some of the most common species... (the last pic on each is what it looks like May/June!)
Thread Ever wondered what a wildflower meadow looks like before it, well, meadows? Been wondering what all those emerging seeds you might notice in March are? Here's a quick guide to some of the most common species... (the last pic on each is what it looks like May/June!)
1. Perhaps the most important of all. YELLOW RATTLE. Squat little oak-shaped leaves, poking their way between other flora. Very subtle in March, often just 1cm high. One of your most important, this species is a hemi-parasite of grasses, nature's free lawnmower!
1. Perhaps the most important of all. YELLOW RATTLE. Squat little oak-shaped leaves, poking their way between other flora. Very subtle in March, often just 1cm high. One of your most important, this species is a hemi-parasite of grasses, nature's free lawnmower!
1. Perhaps the most important of all. YELLOW RATTLE. Squat little oak-shaped leaves, poking their way between other flora. Very subtle in March, often just 1cm high. One of your most important, this species is a hemi-parasite of grasses, nature's free lawnmower!
1. Perhaps the most important of all. YELLOW RATTLE. Squat little oak-shaped leaves, poking their way between other flora. Very subtle in March, often just 1cm high. One of your most important, this species is a hemi-parasite of grasses, nature's free lawnmower!
2. A prolific species once established with large white flowers. OX-EYE DAISIES. Often in clumps with multiple different plants. Their seeds can survive up to 40 years in the soil! An invasive in many other countries, but loved by bees and butterflies here.
2. A prolific species once established with large white flowers. OX-EYE DAISIES. Often in clumps with multiple different plants. Their seeds can survive up to 40 years in the soil! An invasive in many other countries, but loved by bees and butterflies here.
2. A prolific species once established with large white flowers. OX-EYE DAISIES. Often in clumps with multiple different plants. Their seeds can survive up to 40 years in the soil! An invasive in many other countries, but loved by bees and butterflies here.
3. RIBWORT PLANTAIN. Though it doesn't have obvious flowers, the pollen-rich seed spikes are loved by honeybees & bumbles. Its flat footprint helps shade out tough grasses bringing light to the ground layer for other flora to establish. Young leaves are edible & rich in calcium!
3. RIBWORT PLANTAIN. Though it doesn't have obvious flowers, the pollen-rich seed spikes are loved by honeybees & bumbles. Its flat footprint helps shade out tough grasses bringing light to the ground layer for other flora to establish. Young leaves are edible & rich in calcium!
3. RIBWORT PLANTAIN. Though it doesn't have obvious flowers, the pollen-rich seed spikes are loved by honeybees & bumbles. Its flat footprint helps shade out tough grasses bringing light to the ground layer for other flora to establish. Young leaves are edible & rich in calcium!
4. By March, the rosettes of TEASEL can be larger than a splayed hand. This species is a biennial, meaning it often takes 2 years before producing it's distinctive spiky flowers. Leave these to over winter as a great food source for goldfinches (can be topped up with niger).
4. By March, the rosettes of TEASEL can be larger than a splayed hand. This species is a biennial, meaning it often takes 2 years before producing it's distinctive spiky flowers. Leave these to over winter as a great food source for goldfinches (can be topped up with niger).
4. By March, the rosettes of TEASEL can be larger than a splayed hand. This species is a biennial, meaning it often takes 2 years before producing it's distinctive spiky flowers. Leave these to over winter as a great food source for goldfinches (can be topped up with niger).
5. With flowers that look like tiny thistle heads, and adored by moths, butterflies and bees, LESSER KNAPWEED is unassuming until it puts up its long flower stalks.
5. With flowers that look like tiny thistle heads, and adored by moths, butterflies and bees, LESSER KNAPWEED is unassuming until it puts up its long flower stalks.
5. With flowers that look like tiny thistle heads, and adored by moths, butterflies and bees, LESSER KNAPWEED is unassuming until it puts up its long flower stalks.
6. Fluffy feather-like plumes, often blended in amongst grasses, are YARROW. Despite having such fine leaves, this is a great plant for a low growth wild lawn as it withstands trampelling well, has deep roots and puts out spikes of clumped white flowers when it can 🌼
6. Fluffy feather-like plumes, often blended in amongst grasses, are YARROW. Despite having such fine leaves, this is a great plant for a low growth wild lawn as it withstands trampelling well, has deep roots and puts out spikes of clumped white flowers when it can
6. Fluffy feather-like plumes, often blended in amongst grasses, are YARROW. Despite having such fine leaves, this is a great plant for a low growth wild lawn as it withstands trampelling well, has deep roots and puts out spikes of clumped white flowers when it can
7. Tough waxy looking leaves are the sign of a young RAGWORT plant - the home of cinnabar moth caterpillars in a few months. Livestock avoid it unless fed it as part of their dried food or given no other forage. Don't pull it up! Inverts adore its long nectar flow 🐝🦋🕷️
7. Tough waxy looking leaves are the sign of a young RAGWORT plant - the home of cinnabar moth caterpillars in a few months. Livestock avoid it unless fed it as part of their dried food or given no other forage. Don't pull it up! Inverts adore its long nectar flow
7. Tough waxy looking leaves are the sign of a young RAGWORT plant - the home of cinnabar moth caterpillars in a few months. Livestock avoid it unless fed it as part of their dried food or given no other forage. Don't pull it up! Inverts adore its long nectar flow
7. Tough waxy looking leaves are the sign of a young RAGWORT plant - the home of cinnabar moth caterpillars in a few months. Livestock avoid it unless fed it as part of their dried food or given no other forage. Don't pull it up! Inverts adore its long nectar flow
7. Tough waxy looking leaves are the sign of a young RAGWORT plant - the home of cinnabar moth caterpillars in a few months. Livestock avoid it unless fed it as part of their dried food or given no other forage. Don't pull it up! Inverts adore its long nectar flow
8. WILD OREGANO is the larval food plant of the large blue butterfly. It does well in dry, sunny spots. A subtle green in early spring, it too is preparing to shoot up beautiful turrets filled with micro purple flowers that inverts adore in summer 🐛🦋
8. WILD OREGANO is the larval food plant of the large blue butterfly. It does well in dry, sunny spots. A subtle green in early spring, it too is preparing to shoot up beautiful turrets filled with micro purple flowers that inverts adore in summer
8. WILD OREGANO is the larval food plant of the large blue butterfly. It does well in dry, sunny spots. A subtle green in early spring, it too is preparing to shoot up beautiful turrets filled with micro purple flowers that inverts adore in summer
8. WILD OREGANO is the larval food plant of the large blue butterfly. It does well in dry, sunny spots. A subtle green in early spring, it too is preparing to shoot up beautiful turrets filled with micro purple flowers that inverts adore in summer
9. One of my very favourite wildflowers. Leathery oval leaves, often found growing in clumps are a sign of COWSLIPS, just starting to send up their flower stalks. Primroses are closely related. Food plant of the Duke of Burgundy butterfly caterpillar.
9. One of my very favourite wildflowers. Leathery oval leaves, often found growing in clumps are a sign of COWSLIPS, just starting to send up their flower stalks. Primroses are closely related. Food plant of the Duke of Burgundy butterfly caterpillar.
9. One of my very favourite wildflowers. Leathery oval leaves, often found growing in clumps are a sign of COWSLIPS, just starting to send up their flower stalks. Primroses are closely related. Food plant of the Duke of Burgundy butterfly caterpillar.
10. MEADOW BUTTERCUP has distinctive forked leaves, and rapidly forms a tall turret from which its vibrant yellow flowers burst out. Looks fantastic in large clumps. It and creeping buttercup are the two species that may well appear in your garden! Dozens of species nectar on it.
10. MEADOW BUTTERCUP has distinctive forked leaves, and rapidly forms a tall turret from which its vibrant yellow flowers burst out. Looks fantastic in large clumps. It and creeping buttercup are the two species that may well appear in your garden! Dozens of species nectar on it.
10. MEADOW BUTTERCUP has distinctive forked leaves, and rapidly forms a tall turret from which its vibrant yellow flowers burst out. Looks fantastic in large clumps. It and creeping buttercup are the two species that may well appear in your garden! Dozens of species nectar on it.
10. MEADOW BUTTERCUP has distinctive forked leaves, and rapidly forms a tall turret from which its vibrant yellow flowers burst out. Looks fantastic in large clumps. It and creeping buttercup are the two species that may well appear in your garden! Dozens of species nectar on it.
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