Keeping A Mini Meadow

It’ll need an annual ‘short back and sides’ around now to give flowers a helping hand.

Bees, butterflies and many other mini-beasts – a wildflower meadow area brings so much to your garden. The other truly great thing about switching from a prim and proper lawn to a wild, free meadow is that it gives you back your life. No more being a slave to the lawnmower!

And there’s no watering to do either, or feeding for that matter. What a meadow does need, though, is its annual short back and sides. Traditionally, July was the time for hay-making, but an August cut is just as good.