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anoderod55 · 61-69, M
Beautiful . Looks like some pollinator blooms . 🦋🐦🐝

ArishMell · 70-79, M
Lovely displays.

My garden is quite a lot smaller than yours but it does have its assortment of wild flowers that seem to have wandered in all on their own.

Among them though is a dog-rose I planted.

I had found it a few years ago, growing in an inappropriate spot at a site with which I was involved. It had sprouted from the roots of its parent plant among adjacent shrubs, where it was perfectly welcome. So I carefully uprooted the sprout and planted it against my boundary wall, partly to provide Nature's answer to barbed wire at a rather insecure point. It's growing well, forming a little thicket with a cultivated fire-thorn and ornamental ivy, and its attractive, open-faced blooms are popular with pollinating insects.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@peterlee I have some bluebells in my, errr, "lawn" that I am fairly sure are self-seeded. My street was developed around the turn of the last century so I very much doubt there is anything left from when it was probably grazing land.

The garden walls are fairly porous now, as the mortar has weathered so much, and so sometimes support colonies of very pretty Ivy-leaved Toadflax.
peterlee · M
@ArishMell it’s funny how old habitats survive.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@peterlee It is. Most likely though the wild plants in my plot are by seeds blown in or dropped by birds.
Magenta · F
Oooh how exciting. Did you just scatter the seeds?
I also planted wildflower seeds this year in a few beds and in planters. They are all coming up, I can hardly wait until they grow more and bloom.
peterlee · M
@Magenta My garden was once an ancient wood, until 1930. It reverts if it can. And in places I let it. I’m careful not to mow too often.

The red campion I sowed about six years ago.

I’ve had no luck with poppies. But can easily propagate foxgloves.
YoMomma · 41-45
KingofBones1 · 46-50, M
Try cultivating some domestic ones

 
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