These crop fields are now a haven for scarce wildflowers, such as cornflower and
corn marigold.
(For the full list go to http://www.bbcwildlife.org.uk/nia for details.) Even at the smaller scale of traffic islands and city streets, mixes of cornfield annuals, such as
corn marigold, corncockle and poppies, very successfully provide bright splashes of colour in the summer months.
Your free seed mix will be native to your country, with colourful varieties such as
corn marigold, meadow buttercup, and oxeye daisy.
Andrew is also offering wild flower such as bird's foot trefoil, betony, bistort, common valerian, corncockle,
corn marigold, cowslip, bloody cranesbill, herb robert, ox eye daisy, ragged robin, sweet rocket, teasel, tansy and yarrow.
IF you have space, fill it with native grasses and blooms like poppies, corn chamomile and
corn marigold, or mix ox-eye daisies with bugle and yarrow for a tranquil wildflower meadow look.
In the wildflower bed, pupils from Grangefield School sowed a mixture of corn poppy,
corn marigold, corn chamomile, corn cockle and cornflower from free packets of seeds provided by the RHS.
The 'Grow Your Own' Butterfly Garden (pounds 9.99 from Gardeners Pal, www.gardenerspal.com) is a beautifully-packaged gift with a decorative bucket and inner pot, a mini trowel and corn flower, corn poppy and
corn marigold seeds.
The wild-flower mixture contains around 50 different species including corncockle, sweet alyssum, cornflower, California poppy, flax, borage, lemon balm,
corn marigold, poppy, love-in-amist, soapwort, white mustard, crimson scarlet, fennel, and sorrel, among others.
WILDFLOWER MEADOW IF you have space, fill it with native grasses and blooms like poppies, corn chamomile and
corn marigold, or mix ox-eye daisies with bugle and yarrow for a tranquil wildflower meadow look.
Plants to choose from include agrostemma, calendula, chrysanthemum, clarkia, clary, cornflower,
corn marigold, convolvulus, cosmos, eschscholtzia, godetia, helianthus, lavatera, limnanthes, linaria, linum, mignonette, nasturtium, nemophila, nigella, scabious, statice, night scented stock, poppy and sweet sultan.
com) is a beautifully packaged gift with a decorative bucket and pot, a mini trowel and corn flower, corn poppy and
corn marigold seeds.
Common poppies,
corn marigold and cornflower used to be common sights growing among the crops, hence their names.