Companion planting with garden cultivars and Mother Nature's free plants.
It's a constant battle with nature when your gardens are in between fields and there's always something self seeding in the gravel in the drive and garden.
I don't use weedkillers and I don't mind a Daisy or ten and also the Buttercups and Foxgloves.
Some times I strim the grass and weeds/ wild flowers. I planted shrubs like Hypericum, Fuchsia, Hebes, Rugosa roses and perennials like Shasta Daisies and Osteospermums Daisies.
I took the photo above and quite like the informal and pretty nature of the garden.
It's also our pets cemetery where our beloved four legged friends have their eternal rest.
Do you let the wild flowers live with your cultivars?
I have a bed with wildflowers in, last year I added buttercups and have my first flowers, I do love how nature will always win and provide colour.
ReplyDeleteI agree Marlene. Nature always wins. I don't mind some wild flowers in the garden.
ReplyDeleteI like to see a bit of wildness in a garden. Too many gardens are neat, carefully arranged and manicured with not a weed in sight. It is as if those gardeners take pride in mastering nature.
ReplyDeleteI agree.
ReplyDeleteThe Definition Of A Neatly Trimmed Hedge.
A statement of man's arrogance against nature.
I will leave my hedges alone until the birds stop nesting.
As long as the wild flowers are colourful and pleasing I certainly let them grow.
ReplyDeleteWe sing from the same hymn sheet Linda. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteWe've got a lot of wild flowers & weeds. I sowed a lot of wild flower seeds this spring & they're all growing rapidly. I always leave plenty of nettles as the bees love them. Manicured gardens aren't my thing at all.
ReplyDeleteWhere nettles grow, anything will grow. That's an old country saying. I don't like pernicious weeds that are very difficult to eradicate. Wild flowers are very attractive Mrs LH.
DeleteI'm happy for anything besides weeds to grow in my garden :)
ReplyDeleteSome wild flowers like fox gloves are attractive and some are a nuisance Jules.
ReplyDeleteLET???? Oi. I am afraid I am a lazy person at the heart of it, Dave. Let? It is impossible to keep them out. I throw my hands in the air and say 'Flowers is flowers', and then pretend that I meant it to turn out like that.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard work to keep the wildflowers out of your garden when you live in the middle of the countryside Debby. Wild flowers can look attractive in a garden.
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