How to Make a Wildflower Meadow: Tried-And-Tested Techniques for New Garden Landscapes

Flowering meadows are appealing to gardeners and valuable for wildlife, but they can be difficult to establish.

This book will change all that with its pragmatic yet eco-friendly advice. Gardeners and landscape professionals alike will relish James Hewetson-Brown’s common sense approach. There is no need to be an expert on habitat planting or plant ecology--just follow the step-by-step techniques. Using seed, plug plants, bulbs, and roll-out turf, you can establish meadow the same year you plant it.

The book includes 30 case studies that describe successful meadow plantings alongside paths, utility areas, and ponds and in mixed borders, orchards, green roofs, sloping banks, and containers. Interviews offer a fascinating insight into the the installation process and the pleasures of living with a wildflower meadow.

James Hewetson-Brown was an arable farmer before he started experimenting with wildflower meadows in order to find the right approach for a wide range of sites and expectations. Now his successful techniques and products are used to establish beautiful biodiverse meadows in private gardens and public spaces.

His wildflower turf is in much demand by garden designers, has featured in award-winning Chelsea Flower Show gardens and was used on the much celebrated set for the opening ceremony of London’s Olympic Games in 2012.