Use Markers for Wildflower Identification to Enjoy a Summer of Meadow Beauty
If you’ve spent this summer tending carefully organized beds and hedges you may be thinking that a little bit of wildness could have a definite attraction. In fact, wildflower gardens often attract the appreciative glances of nearly every visitor. While finely tuned and immaculate flower gardens can be quite lovely, there is a winsome charm to the free-spiritedness of meadow-inspired beauty. Whether you plant along a fence row or in a more expansive area, use markers for wildflower identification as a testament to nature’s own flair for the spectacular.
Tips on Starting Your Wildflower Garden
A wildflower garden is planted in early spring so there isn’t much to be done right now, unless it is to start clearing a space for next year. If you desire to create a lush landscape you’ll want at least 12 feet by 10 feet of space – preferably within reach of your hose. Wildflowers look great along property or fence lines too, however.
Choose spaces that are sun-soaked. Your flowers will crave at least six hours of full sunshine. Clear the area of all weeds and debris. Next spring, turn the soil and mix in compost.
Gather the wildflower seeds you’ve chosen and mix them in a pail to get a truly random spread of seed. Sow them liberally and then rake them under. You’ll want to water the garden two times daily until your flowers are established. A thin layer of straw can help the garden hold moisture.
Challenges
There will be challenges to your back-to-nature garden. The first challenge will come from the air in the form of hungry birds who assume you’ve laid out seeds especially for their dining pleasure. Your second challenge will come from the soil itself in the form of pesky weeds. Some gardeners suggest planting a few of your seeds in pots so that you can know precisely what young flowers look like. Wildflower identification will help you tremendously when it comes to differentiating between weeds and beauties in the making.
Suggested Wildflowers
The breathtaking pageant of the wild garden is dependent upon a vibrant mix of color and texture. Here are some suggested flowers with which to begin:
- Rich red annual poppies
- Buttery yellow corn marigolds
- Vivid purple cornflowers
- Fuchsia corncockles
- Bright yellow coreopsis
- Zinnias and cosmos in a variety of colors
- Graceful ox-eye daisies
Enjoy
It’s hard to describe the pleasure that your wildflower garden will inspire. Perhaps it’s the idea that random beauty is a gift. That gift will be giving pleasure from spring until late summer – so be prepared for a long season of enjoyment.
Order your Kincaid Plant Markers now so that next spring you’ll be ready for wildflower identification. The war with the birds will end once your flowers take root. The war against weeds won’t. But the glory of your wildflower garden will come, in part, from its imperfection. Bees and butterflies might not need plant markers but you will find them quite helpful. Wildflower identification in your meadow garden will deepen everyone’s appreciation for the casually spectacular beauty of nature.
