Lawn to wildflower meadow

One option to make your yard more pollinator-friendly is to replace areas of grass lawn with low-growing wildflower seed mixes.

Our simple guide to create your own wildflower field

Converting lawn into meadow increases biodiversity and reduces the harms of monoculture, pesticides and synthetic fertilizer.

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Converting your lawn to wildflowers will greatly support bees and pollinators, and it will be less work for you, too. Plus, flowers!

You should consider changing, or we should say Wildscaping, your space into a lovely wildflower meadow filled with vibrant and versatile blooms

Great for nature and lazy-minded gardeners, annoying to persnickety neighbors; here's what to know before planting a wildflower meadow in your yard.

Have you considered changing your lawn into a wildflower meadow? Once established the wildflower area will be a great attraction to bees and butterflies and other pollinating insects as well as easier to maintain than a traditional lawn. For success with a wildflower meadow it is important to consider the following: When a lawn is sown it is generally at about 40 grams to the square metre. A meadow is sown at about 4 grams, which is 10% of the above rate. Meadow mixtures are a mixture of…

Many of us have a love-hate relationship with our lawns. Although we enjoy the cool carpet of green grass to lie on and play on in summer, no one wants to spend hours every weekend mowing and trimming—not to mention battling weeds, insects, and fungus, and aerating, feeding, watering, and seeding. Turf lawns take a lot of time and money to maintain. They require the use of precious water resources to keep them alive, and the pesticides and herbicides we apply to them can damage the…

A guide to turning your front yard into a wildflower meadow as well as steps on how to turn an existing lawn into a meadow. Turning a garden border or your entire lawn into a wildflower meadow can be a great way to not only encourage pollinators into your garden, but it could also help you save water and resources that are typically devoted to a traditional lawn.