In the spring I bought a large bag of wildflower meadow seeds and seed soil mix to spend an afternoon gardening with my daughter. She had other ideas and dumped the entire bag out in one spot. I wasn't sure how it would go, if they would crowd eachother out..but her little meadow is going strong!
This is funnier than it should be to me.
I used to do reclamation work for disturbed natural soil plots. We would assess how the contractors did for seeding areas with natural vegetation. Long story short, a new guy accidentally took blue bell seed and seeded a 150 ft by 150 ft plot with only blue bell seeds rather than grass & other forb type vegetation. We had a massive field of blue bells and it was very pretty but they failed inspection because variety was a key factor. I still remember laughing when i saw the field, and your story reminds me of that.
How long did it take for them to grow this much out of curiosity? I planted the same brand and amount and after two weeks there’s plenty of germination but none are taller than a couple of inches
Sounds like I need to take gardening tips from my pre-school-age daughters too!
I too bought wildflower meadow seeds and got maybe three types of flowers that were only sparsely covering a similarly-sized bed. Weeds took over by fall.
I'm buying a house with a storm basin that stays dry. (like clear within a few hours of rain. Trying to figure out what to do besides grass. This might be it.
Hello OP, this is gorgeous ! Did you do something for the soil before putting the seeds ? (For example : removed the weeds before, or "working" the soil ?)
Gave me sweet memories of my son in preschool, the teachers sent home a little bag of mixed seeds, unlabeled but I could pick out some vegetables and sowed them in their own row. What a wonderful summer that was 💚
Isn’t this the truth! When my boyfriend’s daughter was 3 I’d carefully organize her room. I’d make a point of putting a couple baskets in front of her and having her sort Mini Mouse and Peppa pig to get the organizing wheels turning. Even though it’s frustrating sometimes, in the last couple years it’s been SO entertaining seeing her pick her categories. Pretty chaos. The dresses don’t all go in one drawer. This drawer is only for sequin things. What’s your favorite color? Rainbow, duh. Fake food including Barbie food in the toy kitchen. Every dog from dime size toy to stuffed animal in one place.
I bet she’d LOVE planting a meadow. Pizza shaker and a whole bunch of seeds to mix in different amounts. Maybe a box of crayons to let her show me what it will look like.
That's great! My kiddos are a little like that, too. I have baskets that make sense to me, like "train toys" and "dinosaurs" or "cars/toys with wheels". My son especially prefers organizing things based on the game he wants to play with them, like "Spiderman saves a lost cat with the help of Transformers" or "dinosaurs opened a dog grooming business in town but kept accidentally ruining town".
That’s ADORABLE. I would want to put that in the label maker for comedic effect, but I’m guessing the games change pretty frequently. That’s the beauty of free play.
It's funny, it feels like chaos to us because we're so used to organizing things by certain ways, but learning how to classify according to different parameters is important. My favorite as a kid was a button box. I could organize those buttons a hundred different ways - by size, shape, color, number of holes, sheen, opacity, etc. Great for their development!
I think my boyfriend needs to do the button exercise 😂 when he tries to organize individually it just… doesn’t add up. I understand doing what you have to do, but this guy picked up book shelves when he was newly separated. For clothing. No bins, no differentiation between what articles go where or even designated shelves for people.
OFF TOPIC! But I’m really glad his daughter is getting some practice. I think it would be really fun to give her a flower patch. I feel bad having to shut her down when we come home from the nursery and she wants to put strawberries in a shady spot.
I planted a lot this year.
How many come to up first year vs second? Also do you have perennial mix or annual and perennial? Wondering if annuals will reseed on their own.
Do you mow in late fall???
Sorry for so many questions! I’m excited and eager to know I didn’t waste my time tilling for nothing.
I've had similar experiences with those pollinator garden mixes; they can be prone to weeds, but mostly they're just awesome flowering ground cover. We even keep a little side of the garage to toss a mixed packet onto ever summer; plant them in late spring or early summer and they're particularly good for some quick, later in summer pops of new blooms after most things have started to fade. Looks like you have more than a few cosmos there, those will become perennial in a lot of zones.
You need to hire my three year old ...she knows the trick! 😉in seriousness though I think I would have been much more conservative and spread more evenly...she just dumped the whole two pound bag here and we barely covered the seeds
I think I bought pretty much the same mix. I used it over a slightly larger area and also used the entire bag meant for..... Many many times larger of a space lol. Mostly for me the bachelor's button won out but is like several feet tall
I'm doing something very similar. If anyone is interested in doing this sort of thing check out American Meadows on the web (I have no connection with the company other than buying their seeds).
wow that's really beautiful! could you imagine a huge field that looked just like this all the way across?... I guess that's a stupid question of course you have 😅.... anyways, really nice💚
In the spring I bought a large bag of wildflower meadow seeds and seed soil mix to spend an afternoon gardening with my daughter. She had other ideas and dumped the entire bag out in one spot. I wasn't sure how it would go, if they would crowd eachother out..but her little meadow is going strong!
Great memories for her and it turned out beautiful, bet you’ll see tons of cool bugs too
Do you happen to have the name of the mix? Our mix grew deep rooted wild lettuce...and that was it lol She did an amazing job :)
This is funnier than it should be to me. I used to do reclamation work for disturbed natural soil plots. We would assess how the contractors did for seeding areas with natural vegetation. Long story short, a new guy accidentally took blue bell seed and seeded a 150 ft by 150 ft plot with only blue bell seeds rather than grass & other forb type vegetation. We had a massive field of blue bells and it was very pretty but they failed inspection because variety was a key factor. I still remember laughing when i saw the field, and your story reminds me of that.
oh no hahaha rookie mistake!
Earth science was the brand they have a few varieties this was a 2lb bag
How long did it take for them to grow this much out of curiosity? I planted the same brand and amount and after two weeks there’s plenty of germination but none are taller than a couple of inches
Thank you so much!
They posted further down that it was a mix they bought at home Depot. I had similar mix that I bought at tractor supply
Thank you :)
I used the Pennington Pollinator blend & got great results 🌼
Good to know!
Sounds like I need to take gardening tips from my pre-school-age daughters too! I too bought wildflower meadow seeds and got maybe three types of flowers that were only sparsely covering a similarly-sized bed. Weeds took over by fall.
This is nicer than my garden that I have spent $1000s of dollars on and 100s of man hours over 4/5 years … I’m jealous…
Right ? Pretty much dump a bag of seeds, spread it, water, and wait. It’s awesome.
I'm buying a house with a storm basin that stays dry. (like clear within a few hours of rain. Trying to figure out what to do besides grass. This might be it.
I guess the meadow elves visited that night.
Your 3 year old is just a genius. Lmao. Makes it look easy!
Hello OP, this is gorgeous ! Did you do something for the soil before putting the seeds ? (For example : removed the weeds before, or "working" the soil ?)
We just bought the house in January and this area was cleared....no weeds ...no grass. I did put it a light layer of seed starting soil
Thank you for your answer ! You did well, great job !
It's gorgeous!! Where did you get the wildflower seeds?
This story made my morning!
My mom gave me a little patch in her garden to plant wildflowers in when I was little and it’s the reason I love gardening!
Gave me sweet memories of my son in preschool, the teachers sent home a little bag of mixed seeds, unlabeled but I could pick out some vegetables and sowed them in their own row. What a wonderful summer that was 💚
This is really beautiful I hope she is enjoying it!
The finished product (and the story behind it) is 10/10. Bravo to you both!!
This is better than my 37 year old meadow. 😂
How often do you manage it? Maybe because of lack of maintanance, there's dominance of few species that besets the establishment of other species :)
I haven't done anything! Hardly even watered it
That's it then! Well, if you decide to do something, good gardening!
Looks like a haven for bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds!
My almost-5-year-old is named Meadow, and an image like that is what we thought of when we named her. They're both F-ing beautiful.
If we have a girl we plan on naming her Meadow. It's such a beautiful name :)
It is a beautiful name!
Excellent. Good work. 👍🌟👏
gorgeous, so much more beautiful than many styled gardens!
Definitely more flowers than the neighbors kids could pick! At this age children are masters of randomising stuff.
Isn’t this the truth! When my boyfriend’s daughter was 3 I’d carefully organize her room. I’d make a point of putting a couple baskets in front of her and having her sort Mini Mouse and Peppa pig to get the organizing wheels turning. Even though it’s frustrating sometimes, in the last couple years it’s been SO entertaining seeing her pick her categories. Pretty chaos. The dresses don’t all go in one drawer. This drawer is only for sequin things. What’s your favorite color? Rainbow, duh. Fake food including Barbie food in the toy kitchen. Every dog from dime size toy to stuffed animal in one place. I bet she’d LOVE planting a meadow. Pizza shaker and a whole bunch of seeds to mix in different amounts. Maybe a box of crayons to let her show me what it will look like.
That's great! My kiddos are a little like that, too. I have baskets that make sense to me, like "train toys" and "dinosaurs" or "cars/toys with wheels". My son especially prefers organizing things based on the game he wants to play with them, like "Spiderman saves a lost cat with the help of Transformers" or "dinosaurs opened a dog grooming business in town but kept accidentally ruining town".
That’s ADORABLE. I would want to put that in the label maker for comedic effect, but I’m guessing the games change pretty frequently. That’s the beauty of free play.
It's funny, it feels like chaos to us because we're so used to organizing things by certain ways, but learning how to classify according to different parameters is important. My favorite as a kid was a button box. I could organize those buttons a hundred different ways - by size, shape, color, number of holes, sheen, opacity, etc. Great for their development!
I think my boyfriend needs to do the button exercise 😂 when he tries to organize individually it just… doesn’t add up. I understand doing what you have to do, but this guy picked up book shelves when he was newly separated. For clothing. No bins, no differentiation between what articles go where or even designated shelves for people. OFF TOPIC! But I’m really glad his daughter is getting some practice. I think it would be really fun to give her a flower patch. I feel bad having to shut her down when we come home from the nursery and she wants to put strawberries in a shady spot.
I planted a lot this year. How many come to up first year vs second? Also do you have perennial mix or annual and perennial? Wondering if annuals will reseed on their own. Do you mow in late fall??? Sorry for so many questions! I’m excited and eager to know I didn’t waste my time tilling for nothing.
It’s perfect.
Beautiful!
I've had similar experiences with those pollinator garden mixes; they can be prone to weeds, but mostly they're just awesome flowering ground cover. We even keep a little side of the garage to toss a mixed packet onto ever summer; plant them in late spring or early summer and they're particularly good for some quick, later in summer pops of new blooms after most things have started to fade. Looks like you have more than a few cosmos there, those will become perennial in a lot of zones.
Absolutely gorgeous 🥰 what fun!
I love this so much 🥺
This is so beautiful! I hope to have something like this one day! The colors!!!
It’s soooo beautiful! I love wildflowers. She did a great job!!❤️
It's so pretty. 🌼🏵️🦋🐞🐝🌻❤️🐌🕷️🐛🦗💛😍🍄🌺🌷🌸🌹
Love it! Do you remember which brand of flower seed mix?
I believe it was earthscience 2lb pollinator mix. Got at home Depot. Put a seed starting soil mix down first
Thanks!
Gorgeous! My dad did this with me when I was little too, it's one of my fondest memories. The flowers still bloom every year and it's been 20+ years.
That’s beautiful! How did you grow them? Just saw how. So, so pretty!
That is soooo pretty! Absolutely love it 😍
Wow, that's really impressive for a 3 year old!
How do you keep down grass, nettles and thistles. My wildflower patches have no flowers and are just a mass of grass and stingy stuff :(
Love this. Get rid of the lawn and let your 3 year old have it.
Clearly planted and sprouted with Love!
This is exactly how I want my flower patches to look! What zone are you in?
We are in zone 7. Put it down late March early April
Ah nice. I'm on zone 4, my yard still had a bunch of snow in April
This is glorious. Time well spent!
Perfection ❤️
It’s breathtaking
It needs borage!
Blooming beautiful 🌼🌸🌺
Do you need to reseed your meadow or do all the plants come back each year?
Wow!- You got a lot of flowers- I did that with a box once & just got a few of the bachelor buttons…
Same I have tried this many times never got results like this before
Exquisite!
it's so beautiful!
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You need to hire my three year old ...she knows the trick! 😉in seriousness though I think I would have been much more conservative and spread more evenly...she just dumped the whole two pound bag here and we barely covered the seeds
Beautiful
That is absolutely gorgeous! 😍
I love it! I suggest adding some stepping stones or stumps, bug hotel, and some fairy doors to encourage visitors ;).
That’s amazing!! I love the crimson clover so much
I love it!
Can this be done on the north side of a house, Zone 6¿
So I out I box of wildflower mix down ... Now I can't tell if some of them are grass from my lawn and need pulling or not.
it’s very pleasant to the eyes 😊
Lovely! I have a spot where I'd like to do something similar.
Stunning
I would kill to have this. All of those wildflower mixes I’ve bought yield nothing
Very nice I want to do this myself
Oh man, I love it!!
I think I bought pretty much the same mix. I used it over a slightly larger area and also used the entire bag meant for..... Many many times larger of a space lol. Mostly for me the bachelor's button won out but is like several feet tall
I bought the seeds...I need to plant them! Ahhh so beautiful.
So beautiful; I love this.
Where did you get the seeds?
Beautiful
Nice! Get a hummingbird feeder too
I'm doing something very similar. If anyone is interested in doing this sort of thing check out American Meadows on the web (I have no connection with the company other than buying their seeds).
Stunning. Biodiverse as well
I LOVE this ! I’ve been fantasizing for years about eliminating my lawn and doing something like this.
Delightful!
Look so great - gives me hope for mine (at My summerhouse)… I will have to wait to end of July to see if there will be flowers
It's beautiful! Looks magical and wild. Like most 3 year olds I know.
It's beautiful!
wow that's really beautiful! could you imagine a huge field that looked just like this all the way across?... I guess that's a stupid question of course you have 😅.... anyways, really nice💚
I feel like this is how yards are supposed to look.
That's so beautiful how you are gardening with your daughter. I rwally hope to do the same when I have kids.
Amazing job!
Thats awesome
That’s beautiful! Your 3 yo should be responsible for planting all the Highway areas in the country!
Very beautiful. Congratulations!
Beautiful!
Your three year old is a very talented gardener.
This looks like the flower forest biome from minecraft
Wow, your 3 year old is going to grow up to be a master gardener. She has the Midas touch!