"sahara" wrote in message
om...
hello
like many of you i am excitedly formulating plans to put into action
once the long awaited the spring arrives. My latest plan is to solve
our problem of being too lazy to mow the lawn.
I'd like to resow the lawn with meadow type wildflowers so that when
we leave weeks between mowings it will look like it's meant to be like
that! Great idea! I was so impressed with my own thinking that last
night that I excitedly ordered some meadow mix, primroses, red campion
and the like from www.wildflowersuk.com (as suggested on this list
earlier last year) as well as some bee flowers mix from chiltern seeds
(for the bees that will hopefully be nesting in my new bee nest box).
Today, in the cold light of dawn I am having doubts. Will my
wildflowers be weedy thugs that will make my neighbours hate me

Yes.
I have a neighbour behind me whose back yard might possibly be a haven of
delight for miscellaneous insects and small mammals, and it might well have
a wide selection of inconspicuous flowers in the apropriate season. However,
it is a perrenial source of weeds in my garden

and
rampage over my smallish terrace garden? Have I done the wrong thing??

Yes.

For your info my lawn is about 10 sqm (I think?) and is slightly
overshadowed by the neighbours (lovely) ceanothus and a (large)
conifer.

Apply weedkiller as soon as growth has recommenced, before the weeds have
set seed. Dig and reconvert the ground into a lawn.

There really are verygood reasons why one does not see "wild gardens" or
"alpine lawns" in tiny suburban gardens except ones produced by neglect.

Franz