In article
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harry writes
Don't waste your money girls. Start mowing TAKE THE CUTTINGS AWAY,
VERY IMPORTANT. And no fertilizer. It takes around three years of
mowing to get fertility down to where you can even start. By then you
will probably get local wild flowers spontaneously appearing.
They might not be the pretty ones on that stupid TV progamme/
presenter.


Yes I agree. Wouldn't advise trying it on lawn areas that had been fed
and weeded for years.

Also the mixtures they sowed on the programme were not going to
outcompete the ragwort/dandelion/silver birch and other stuff so yes I
agree that you would need to weed constantly to get out the stuff you
didn't want!
Having said that i think people that visited the Butterfly World nr. St
Albans in the last three years were very impressed by the land either
side of the main route to the car parks which had been sown with such a
mixture of wildflowers and were absolutely stunning. They didn't contain
many that were shown on the programme but proper English wild flowers.
Actually the verges were better than the awful designed front gardens in
the actual place (but that's another story!)
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Janet Tweedy