islayhawk wrote:

I have an area of established wild grassland that I would like to plant
with wildflowers. I do not want to cut it back due to other flowers
growing there. area is about 150 square mts. Would I be better planting
with plugs or seeds. How many plugs or how much seed.

depends upon the plant, depends upon how densely
you want the plants to appear.

however, for an established field you will likely
have a hard time getting seeds established without
some kind of disturbing of the soil.

using plugs at least means you get some plants
established for sure, but then you may also be
needed to water for the first season until the
plants are established.

i do not recommend seed mixes unless you know
exactly what is in the mix as some plants are a
royal pain in the ass if they wander out of the
wild flower field and into more formal gardens
(and the quality of the mix may vary by company
or lot and can also include weed seeds -- it is
much easier to scan a batch of one kind of seed
and notice and remove any stray bits or wrong
seeds before mixing).

one approach is to just put in patches where
you disturb the soil and then spread the seed
mixes or plant the plugs, this results in a
more varied landscape which i think is more
interesting than a uniform field (and it's
much easier to water the patches when seeding
or putting in plugs if they are more together
than scattered all about). then as the field
grows and changes the seeds can spread around.


songbird