Wild Flower Gardening
The growing interest and admiration gardeners have towards nature is the main factor in the increasing trend towards wild flower gardening. Indeed, many gardeners are no longer happy with their artificial gardening designs and they challenge themselves in undertaking the cultivation of a wild flower garden.
If you want to start a wild flower garden, as with all gardens, the first step is to choose a spot. Since what you’re looking for in planting wild flowers is a natural look, your best bet is to choose a place that looks semi-natural; along the back of your yard, or in an area that doesn’t look carved out against a fence or next to the patio.
As for conditions, wildflowers are considered to be tough and hardy, existing in conditions which would be highly detrimental to cultivated flowers. Indeed, the sunnier, the better. The only thing that wildflowers really can’t tolerate is standing water, so pick a place with good drainage.
Most wildflower gardening experts recommend using your soil as is, without adding any amendments (unless you have the worst soil on the planet). Indeed, if the spot you choose has anything at all growing on it, like weeds, then it will support wildflowers. If you’ve chosen a spot that’s completely barren of life, well then