Go wild this spring: Mix delicate wildflowers with showy border plants

Go wild this spring: Mix delicate wildflowers with showy border plants Nigel Colborn says to abandon your garden and visit your nearest woods Expert says the woodland flowers are at their glorious best from now until May Meadow and roadside flowers have become popular for gardens more recently By Nigel Colborn for the Daily Mail … Read more

Councils urged to ‘cut back on mowing’ roadside verges to protect wildflowers

Cutting back on mowing roadside grass patches will help wildflowers like oxeye daisies and harebells have ‘their best summer in years’. The UK has more than 310,000 miles of rural road verges which have become a refuge for wildflowers squeezed out of the countryside, says charity Plantlife. The plant conservation group says these flowers often … Read more