Creating a wildflower meadow.

[Bernardbean]

The seed on that area should cost about 1k that's 100% native wildflower seeds mixed with grass, 20% wildflowerseeds 80% grass, sow at 4g square meter in to stale seed bed, always cut and remove, if no animals and a lot of re growth in the autumn need to cut and remove that as well, remember more effort means more reward in the long term, if you would like a formal quote for the powers that be, please message me.

 

[Bogweevil]

Grass is the main problem with wildflower sowing. It swamps the flowers. Some people skim off and sell most of the topsoil. If this does not suit, glyphosate at 10% of recommended rate will put a crimp in the grass until the wildflowers gets going.

Yellow rattle sown in autumn can help suppress grass in many but not all cases and may only work for a few years.

Taking late summer 'hay' and another mowing in early autumn to prevent tussocks is ideal.

Remember that not all 'wildflower seed' is meadow flowers - cornfield annual weeds won't persist at all though very pretty and garden annual mixes, Pictorial Meadows won't persist either though very attractive.

 

[renewablejohn]

1. It is a legal requirement to control ragwort
2. Last I checked Roundup is still legal and 90%+ of councils still apply it for weed control in public areas including footpaths
3. £3k for wild flower seeds for 1.5acres. that sounds like an appalling waste of money to me.

Just because it is yellow and called ragwort does not mean you have a legal requirement to control it. What you do need to do is to be able to identify the single type of ragwort that appears on the government list of injurous weeds. If you happen to have that type of ragwort then you must control it. Any other type of ragwort enjoy as one of your "wild flowers".