I think some of the most beautiful places are wildflower meadows. I love what you’ve done with your garden, the natural look is peaceful and stunning.👍

Im hopeless with gardens and have very bad soil but Im not giving up. Mentalities about wildlife and biodiversity are changing whether they change fast enough to save the world is very open to debate but everyone moving in the direction you have gone is helping. Every little helps. Thanks for the tips!

I started 2 years ago with this love for wild flowers and last fall I planted seeds of native Indiana flowers

Beautifully well done. Thank you! I planted a pack of wildflower seeds a couple of years ago. I was amazed at how great they turned out, and that so many of them came back the next year. Cosmos were a real surprise. I had never seen them before, but now they are one of my favorites.

only 1:23 in and this is fantastic Greg! I absolutely love just letting things grow wild - a refreshing change from everyone's addiction to using their lawnmowers to keep everything neat!

Love this. I’m starting to enjoy my garden again and want more and more wildflowers and wildlife. Can’t wait 🙌🏽

Beautiful garden, warmed my soul x

Love that I found your channel! I have 6 acres of every element to grow herbs around the edging of and trees. Looking forward to your videos.

wow what wonderful energy you have ! i absolutley love this already and im not even half way through. Thank you for sharing and talking us through ure process ive been dreaming of doing something like this in my gardennn for a while now especially planting with the bees and wildlife in mind so thanks for the inspiration ! Sending you love and wishing you well on ure gardening adventures ♥

An inspirational video in so many ways and a gentle voiced commentary to go with it! What could be better for a Sunday evening? Thank you sir. Blessings and peace

What a pleasing, calming voice.

Decided to look up wildflower stuff on a whim and I'm hooked! Nice stuff!

Amazing!

Nice one Greg. I can see myself coming back to refer to this video many times in future to help with native plant ID! If my little pond ends up looking half as good as yours in a couple of years I'll be well chuffed. I had to laugh at the out-take at the end. I feel your pain. I was on the verge of doing a piece to camera in my garden the other week when some neighbours in a nearby street which backs on to our patchwork of gardens suddenly received a batch of noisy guests for a barbecue - and that was while such gatherings were still supposed to be on hold for the lockdown! The trials of film-making, eh? 👍😎👍

Thanks for this lovely and informative video. I just subscribed!

So lovely ❤

Very good job at filming your beautiful growing garden. Thank you from Ozarks in America. Blessings,p

Brilliant thanks.

Such a great video! We need more rewilded spaces :D

Brilliant video. Really encouraging and I am off to copy this. I like your great attitude to nature. I am going to have a nettle area. I agree with you about neighbours but keep going! You are doing. a fantastic thing.

Wow, that's beautiful!! Hope you will get plenty of bees and butterflies and birds in your garden 😍

So many gardening videos from England! Your climate is so good for gardening, long growing season not scorching summers, i envy you limeys, my ancestors came here in 1860 to the Canadian shield. I hope to try your techniques.😊

Great work

Hi Greg, Thanks for your video, going to attempt my own this year, wish me luck.

I am starting my Wildlife garden this year. I added a small pond in an old wine barrel and I am planting close to 20 different flowering plants (mostly natives for my area of the USA). I am starting some of the seeds indoors with a grow light so hopefully I get a jumpstart on my plants flowering this summer. It will be so fun to see it develop as time goes on.

Thank you so much for your time making this video. We are doing similarly but one year behind. Updated our pond but no frogs although two toads last year were seen in the potato patch under the soil. Buddleia, lumps of wood, bird feeders, three sections of wild garden lawn leaving paths to walk (a bit dismal atm but loads of seeding appearing), crab Apple trees, plus a lovely friend gave me an orchid which I put under our apple tree and it has appeared this years. 👏 I shall do watercolour and pen sketches as each flower appears, for a record. This is April 2021... Thank you once again for sharing! 👍

Thank you for filming your progress. I'm live in Pennsylvania in the US. I bought over 2 acres and plan to build a house and plant gardens and wildflower meadows.

Glad someone thinks the same thoughts as me about their neighbours. Those seed balls look amazing

Nice to see your love for nature and the comments of others who the same passion, I have a large area I plan to make a wild meadow along with my flowerbeds, it’s great for the kids to see and hopefully will follow in our footsteps, too many concrete jungles out there.

Thanks Greg enjoyed this. We have moved 8 times and always ended up with big gardens even though we are not keen gardeners!! Over the 28 years in this house we have spent a kings Ransom on landscape gardeners with little to show for it.

Love it.

I absolutely LOVED watching this video🙏🏽👌🏾💃🏾🌿💜🌿 Im planning on planting wild flower seeds in the garden with my daughter this weekend, its raining in London today so hopefully the soil will be nice and soft this weekend! I love the frog in your mini pond🤗🤩 I just subscribed to your channel, i hope you done a mini pond video. Look forward to watching your clips🌿💜🌿💜🌿💜🌿

great video! my garden is a flower haven,with all sorts of flowers around all the the different flower beds,and that comes with lots of native wildlife!anyway great video keep it up

We are moving house with a huge grass section so l am so interested in your films. Don’t worry about your neighbors that is life and nice to hear .

enjoyed this

W0W !!! That Looks Great, Merry Christmas from Auckland, New Zealand ...🙂🙂🙂🙂

You are the first person to show me exactly what I have just done to part of my garden today 30th March. Just left it uncut. I have no idea what to add to the meadow section so any tips would be appreciated thanks

Great vid greg

Thank you nice job! We are planting wildflower seeds today for the first time and hope for some great results. We picked up 2 seed oaks from our local Tractor Supply Store. We are in South East Georgia USA.... Hopefully I can put it on video for sharing with our New Bees we installed yesterday. Hopefully on a week I will post the Video. Thanks much!

I would love an update on the garden this year, I’m starting my garden soon fingers crossed!

I put in a pond at the end of last year and this year I had 2 lots of frog spawn. They have just turned into tadpoles. I am excited about that.

I’m jealous of your bee orchids! Hope some will appear in my meadow this year

Good video 👍

Nice !!!

I keep a controlled nettle patch & this year hundreds of peacock butterfly larvae developed on them. The yellow rattle worked its magic but the best attraction for the pollinators was a huge Scotch thistle & a big patch of knapweed. Keep on doing your thing 👍

Good video ❤️

I live in Western Australian & it's hot & dry with a mild winter. I love our native plants as many are drought tolerant & require minimum maintenance. I have two large melaleuca trees (paperbark) on my verge. They bring lots of insects, spiders, lizards & birds including owls, especially when in flower.

great

Great reference for future season planting, nice bug info too and smashing to see real suburban gardening. . We can all make a difference. The planet is depending on people like you friend..#happydigging 🌾☘🌍🍁🌎🌷🌼💚🌍🌷🤘

We do need to green our spaces more. Instead of mowing them, plant flower meadows. In our yards let's create areas for these pollinators to thrive. Even if you don't have a yard, use a flower pot and put pollinator flowers in that. I live in a condo with a deck and small front porch that I can put flowers on. I am probably going to ask my HOA landscape lady if I can plant a couple things in the ground around my deck. I saw a video on KZfaq once where in certain states, instead of mowing the sides of their highways, they plant miles of flower seeds. I drove past one of these stretches of highway and it was beautiful and so wonderful for nature.

Hi Greg! Thanks for these videos - exactly what I need and you explain everything so well. I live in Almería, Southern Spain - the only desert in Europe! I haven't a big garden but I'm thinking of having a go at a mini wildlife garden. We're having extreme heat at the mo - 40c forecast for this weekend - and it's spring! Watering is laborious but we've never had a hosepipe ban in the nearly 17years we've been here. I've bought a wildflower mix from Amazon and the seeds included are named so I'll go through them and see if they'll tolerate the conditions I can offer. Wish me luck! Even in a desert, if the plant is located well there's a good chance of some success. God bless and thanks again🤗

I made a butterfly fountain like a small dish with sweet water they love it .

Beautiful ❤ I am trying to do the same ,some of my seeds didn't germinate but this year I have massive oxe eye daisies buttercups clover and some other stuff which I don't know the names but lovely...( my brother who is a garden tidy fan says my garden is a 🐝mess!) I said....well if you went to a nature reserve to see wildlife but you saw a neat stripey lawn you wouldn't see any nature,! I love it,it isn't for everyone but I can sit for ages watching bees bugs butterflies etc its ace , ty for your tips too ❤

This is my absolute goal in life to do this but I don’t have a clue how to do it. I hope this can teach me.

It's a nice thing other people like the natural look of grasslands. I encourage wildflowers too, though the weather is different in central europe so the species are not exactly the same. I've collected the seeds from the nearby wilderness.

Well done. I hope you are reconciled with those wild plants which you didn't plant but which grow anyway. (You can eat Shepherd's purse!) I've no idea how you came to have Bee orchids so quickly! Or even at all. I note that your treatment was different from my own (see below), which is also successful in a rural patch 1700+ m². I haven't planted any seed, I just mow and gather the grass at certain times of year. After that, it all happens! I agree with you about stamping out Ground Elder if you can, and controlling some other "hooligans" like Convolvulus and Brambles. For butterflies there are also Buddleia (watering and dead-heading prolongs flowering) and Lavender (you can get varieties which flower twice each year). You already have Knapweed and thistles. The Yellow Rattle is a great asset: I haven't managed to get any to grow yet, but I'll try again this year. Two thoughts I would pass on: 1 - Impoverish the soil. It's generally only grass that needs much nitrogen, and grass is the great enemy of wild flowers (except Yellow rattle!). I saw that you put the grass cuttings in the bin - which I also do. 2 - Choosing the time of your first grass (hay) cut - after flowering - will discriminate against those plants which would have seeded later, and they'll be greatly reduced in 3 years of this cutting. The hay cut should be left to dry before gathering, to allow seed from desired plants to fall. 3 - Another technique, which you won't be using, is to turn up soil from half a metre deep so as to expose old seed from many years ago. You'd get Poppies that way, among others. This is usually only done at the beginning of the project. I didn't do this. I have 5 species of orchid in my patch each year, and some years I have one-time only visitors! I've had 6 of these! My other plants are too numerous to list, but the highlights include Fumitory, Restharrow, Wild arum and Milkwort. But I've been doing this for the last 28 years. Best of luck and continuing success. Clive.

Another technique you could’ve used is to just throw the seed balls and wherever they landed to plant them. Is sowed lots of wildflowers in spring and the only things which came up are poppies and something else which is about to flower in a week or two.

You might have discovered it now but there are apps like Plantnet where you can photo the plant and get it identified. I've just sown a wildflower area in my allotment, I'm excited to see what turns up. Those bee orchards look really special, it's so rewarding encouraging wildflowers and nature. Also, the plants you call 'European pansies' look like wild edible violas. I love to grow them every year for salads, they have a fresh menthol like taste! But obviously make sure you have the edible version before eating.

Hi Greg, this video is very inspiring, nothing flash, just simply explained, you just went for it with basic preperation and you´re getting wonderful results. i will definately give it a go, i´m in germany with a big lawn a lot of which has been taking over by moss, do you think it will still work?

I am nurturing a wildlife garden - I have a split level garden and the top garden is all wild flowers - I have to be careful which varieties tho as I have a free roaming tortoise in that section!

The best video I have found so far on how to sow wild flowers in an existing lawn. Thank you. A quick question if you don't mind. Do you cover the seed balls anfter pushing them into the soil? Thanks. John.

The bind weed is beautiful but it can get outta hand mine tried taking over my morning glories last year . Hope to some day have an English cottage / wild life flower garden .

Thank you. It's so pretty. I live in a basement and the window well is rusty metal with little direct light. It's sort of sad to look at, so I'd like to make the bottom into a shade medow. I'm not quite sure how to add soil for it.

Would you recommend the seed balls Greg? How long did it take to see progress from? Another great video!

I love wild gardens I wish I could do it but the weather here in egypt is too hot I'm trying my best in my garden

Hey man. With wildflowers its all about soil fertility. Gotta take the life out of the grass. Easiest way to go this in my experience is removal of as much topsoil as possible. Less topsoil means less nutrients and better conditions for wildflowers. The other way is to cut the grass when its growing and collect all the arisings and remove them from the site. Takes time but will work. You should check out dorset county council's cut and collect programme. Its the most extensive im aware of. Good luck :)

Love the channel. Just subscribed. We are doibg the same here but 2020 has gona a bit pants to be honest.. got really downhearted with it all. Want to get back on it soon though ready for 2021..

Great video! Do you think the nettle helps keep the aphid population in a remote corner of the garden resulting in other areas having fewer pests?

So have all these flowers just been planted as seeds to start with directly in the ground?

Hi ; I've started my wildlife garden end of year so I be watching to take notes 😉. Just wondering if u compost your grass cutting or not? As the compost is a great place for frogs/toads/newts and bugs to call home and hibernate over winter. Also it be good to use for the garden next spring. It also reduce waste. Cheers

Best to compost your grass clippings in your garden.

those orchids are great. We've just had some show up this summer, and I learnt that they're actually in the ground for up to 4 years before they show up as flowers! Also, is it true you have to leave the wildflower seeds to undergo a cold winter before they sprout?

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Thanks for sharing, I came here as I’m about to sow my wildflower patch in our garden. I notice you put your grass clippings in a bin….why not start a small compost area for veg/fruit scraps and garden clippings????? I started one 3 years ago now have 3 and they provide fantastic mulch material during hot summers and over winter. I can’t believe how life underground has increased because if it.

How do you keep from growing too big? Do you mow the grass normally after the season?

Do you have butterfly weed in the uk? They’re bright orange and the bees and butterflies love them.

Sweet vid but please get yourself a battery mower! Well done 👍

So have all these flowers just come from seeds that you planted directly in the ground?

I tried those seed bombs but nothing came up I was very disappointed. I hope you did better. Compost heap would be a haven for wildlife!

Why not leave the Ground Elder? It seemed to be happy and covered in pollinators

YO WHERE CAN I BUY THAT SEED MIX

Great videos tho i feel like it could have been half the length

me: wants to look after frogs, toads and newts, wants to make a wildflower meadow and wants to attract more wildlife to my garden! Greg's Wildlife: makes videos on almost all the things I wanted to do before I even found this channel!

#savesoil

I got coneflower yarrow butterfly weed swamp milkweed Joe Pye weed

Now you have a garden full of ticks that you can’t use

neighbors..

The grass clippings need to be left on the lawn as a mulch....or at lest scattered around the beds...please don't throw away good organic waste in the bin, thats not natures way.

Firstly, ditch your brown bin as you are throwing away the compost you just bought, and also as it rots you dollop some on as a buffalo would lay it's eggs and your meadow will transform, but I moved into a home and the lawn was like a show garden and I just let it grow, to the horror if the old fellow next door, and the first few months I saw an orchid growing. If you throw away your lawnmower and just let nature back in it will transform your garden. But buy a shotgun for the cats that love your new cat toilet you created.

The music is irritating and distracting.