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Flowers for meadows
Our page on suggested lawn flowers covers species tough enough to withstand a certain amount of trampling. Other plants that don't cope so well in a short-mowed lawn are listed here. They are ideal if you want to relax your mowing, and allow parts of the lawn to grow longer. They are in fact flowers that thrive naturally in meadows. True meadows are not easy to create from scratch on a typical lawn, but you can work over time to create meadow-like longer grass areas provided the soil is not too fertile which make the grasses out-compete other vegetation. See our How-to Guide on wildflower meadows.
There a good number of useful meadow species, and we are listing them in two categories - those that favour dry conditions and those that prefer it damp. These categories are not absolute, and most meadow plants can be grown very successfully in flower borders.
Dry meadow plants To read more about these species click on the picture or the link below.
.jpg "Oxeye daisy Leucanthemum vulgare flowers Photo: By Isidre blanc - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37427257")
_on_Common_Knapweed_(Centaurea_nigra)_-_geograph.org.uk_-_584926.jpg "Common Knapweed Centaurea nigra & small heath butterfly Photo: By Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13122681")
(also a water plant)
(also a sun plant)
Orchids (some)
(also a sun plant)
(also a sun plant)
(also a sun plant)
Damp meadow plants To read more about these species click on the picture or the link below.
(also a sun plant)
Orchids (some)
(also a sun plant)
(also a sun plant)
Flowers for meadows
Our page on suggested lawn flowers covers species tough enough to withstand a certain amount of trampling. Other plants that don't cope so well in a short-mowed lawn are listed here. They are ideal if you want to relax your mowing, and allow parts of the lawn to grow longer. They are in fact flowers that thrive naturally in meadows. True meadows are not easy to create from scratch on a typical lawn, but you can work over time to create meadow-like longer grass areas provided the soil is not too fertile which make the grasses out-compete other vegetation. See our How-to Guide on wildflower meadows.
There are a good number of useful meadow species, and we are listing them in two categories - those that favour dry conditions and those that refer it damp. These categories are not absolute, and most meadow plants can be grown very successfully in flower borders.
Dry meadow plants To read more about these species click on the
picture or the link below.
(also a sun plant)
Orchids (some)
(also a sun plant)
(also a sun plant)
(also a sun plant)
Damp meadow plants To read more about these species click on the
picture or the link below.
(also a water plant)
Orchids (some)
(also a sun plant)
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