Making Garden Meadows

How to create a natural haven for wildlife

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.