I will have a think about plant life membership. I’ve participated in plant life’s no mow may for a few years now and I’ve written about it in my may monthly articles (for my local parish magazine). I now have done really interesting things growing in the lawn. A beautiful type of cress - it has beautiful fat succulent leaves and looks like it’s from a cultivated variety and not one I’ve grown myself, perhaps come from birds visiting the garden? Lambs lettuce and sorrel also grow well in our lawn. Now I’m not a big fan of mowing the lawn at all and I discourage my husband from mowing, which means that it usually only gets cut once a year. Luckily my husband is quite comfortable with the slightly messy meadow look. Despite our efforts when I’ve participated in recording the wild flowers for Plantlife in May our wild flowers are low in quantity. It’s not a big lawn, we’ve got a standard suburban sized garden rectangular in shape so the first square shape is lawn with flower borders at the edge and then raised beds, a decked area with a greenhouse and big chicken fenced area within. In the raised beds if wild flowers pop up I do let them thrive and do their thing and I love the sorrel flowers in mid summer.
Actually though I probably would say this i have become an even bigger fan of Plantlife since I started working for them - they do so much more than No Mow May, things like restoring temperate rainforest, campaigning for grasslands, restoring peat bogs... they're amazing 😊 your lawn sounds gorgeous by the way - love an unmown lawn. You could maybe try opening up a patch or two and introducing some wildflower plugs to see if you can persuade more species to establish?
My self seeded Claytonia has small leaves big enough to harvest for delicate vitamin c packed salads which I enjoy with a teaspoon or two of fire cider drizzled over. Your timing for growing Claytonia from seed seems spot on if the self seeded coming into leaf is a clue to their natural timing.
Oh now that sounds delicious 😍 I love claytonia not only tastes really good but such an unusual plant with the little flowers growing straight out of the leaf like that 💚
I will have a think about plant life membership. I’ve participated in plant life’s no mow may for a few years now and I’ve written about it in my may monthly articles (for my local parish magazine). I now have done really interesting things growing in the lawn. A beautiful type of cress - it has beautiful fat succulent leaves and looks like it’s from a cultivated variety and not one I’ve grown myself, perhaps come from birds visiting the garden? Lambs lettuce and sorrel also grow well in our lawn. Now I’m not a big fan of mowing the lawn at all and I discourage my husband from mowing, which means that it usually only gets cut once a year. Luckily my husband is quite comfortable with the slightly messy meadow look. Despite our efforts when I’ve participated in recording the wild flowers for Plantlife in May our wild flowers are low in quantity. It’s not a big lawn, we’ve got a standard suburban sized garden rectangular in shape so the first square shape is lawn with flower borders at the edge and then raised beds, a decked area with a greenhouse and big chicken fenced area within. In the raised beds if wild flowers pop up I do let them thrive and do their thing and I love the sorrel flowers in mid summer.
Actually though I probably would say this i have become an even bigger fan of Plantlife since I started working for them - they do so much more than No Mow May, things like restoring temperate rainforest, campaigning for grasslands, restoring peat bogs... they're amazing 😊 your lawn sounds gorgeous by the way - love an unmown lawn. You could maybe try opening up a patch or two and introducing some wildflower plugs to see if you can persuade more species to establish?
My self seeded Claytonia has small leaves big enough to harvest for delicate vitamin c packed salads which I enjoy with a teaspoon or two of fire cider drizzled over. Your timing for growing Claytonia from seed seems spot on if the self seeded coming into leaf is a clue to their natural timing.
Oh now that sounds delicious 😍 I love claytonia not only tastes really good but such an unusual plant with the little flowers growing straight out of the leaf like that 💚