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If you have room for an unmown area at the bottom of the garden, a well-established wildflower meadow is a thing of rare beauty. From spring until autumn it is a palette of ever-changing flower color. And it doesn’t have to be an entire field-almost any small patch that you mow only once or twice a year can produce good-quality, well-behaved wildflowers such as cornflowers, native daffodils, cowslips, and ox-eye daisies. An impoverished soil with no added fertilizer will result in a wide range of wildflowers becoming naturalized.
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Having said that, a wildflower garden does need considerable attention unless you are going to allow it to become really wild, if you see what I mean! Refrain from cutting the herbage until the flowers have set seed. Then leave the hay for a few days and, if the weather is dry, toss it on site to make sure the seed is dispersed before adding it in thin layers to the compost heap. Many of the annual flowers that set seed will germinate the following spring and continue the cycle.
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