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Inspiration Through Nature

Making Garden Meadows – How to create a natural haven for wildlife

Jenny Steel

Making Garden Meadows will tell you how to create a meadow area in your garden, full of wildflowers and teeming with wildlife. Also how to ensure its continued beauty through many years. Illustrated with photographs taken in her own garden, Jenny Steel guides you simply through the process to make a meadow from scratch, to create a ‘meadow effect’ in an existing lawn, to make a spring-flowering meadow and how to enhance areas of rough grass by planting suitable wildflowers. She will also explain how to grow native cornfield annuals, such as poppies and cornflowers and how to ensure they continue to seed and flourish in your garden. A native wildflower meadow is a visual delight and can attract a huge variety of invertebrates, especially bees and butterflies, birds, amphibians and mammals, to even the smallest garden.

Publication date: 27 June, 2013

Category: Gardening

Paperback

RRP: £9.99

ISBN: 978 1908241 221

Extent: 68 pages

Reviews

For gardeners wanting to go one step further, Making Garden Meadows provides key information on how to create a beautiful wild flower meadow from scratch – with tips on growing cornfield flowers, maintaining your meadow and developing wildflower plugs from seed.

Butterfly Magazine

Jenny Steel’s book shows how to create a meadow area that is full of wildflowers and wildlife.

The English Garden

This compact book exudes the enthusiasm of the author and is both an excellent read as well as a useful handbook.

Prof Valerie Brown, ecologist and governmental advisor

Making Garden Meadows contains many useful tips on how to create a meadow, choosing the site, seed mixes to use, sowing and maintenance.

Garden News


Jenny Steel

Jenny Steel, a plant ecologist and natural history writer, grew up in the middle of Oxford surrounded by her five brothers and sisters and an ever-changing collection of creatures including frogs, budgerigars, fish, a pet magpie and, for a short while, a privet hawk-moth caterpillar.  She has been passionate about …

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