About this box
You don't need a five-acre field to enjoy the romance of a meadow. This collection delivers the airy, relaxed meadow look within the tidy confines of a flower bed — not a bag of mixed grass seed to scatter on a lawn, but five high-performing individual flowers sown in drifts through your borders. The result is designed wildness: waving stems, jewel-like colours and buzzing life that looks intentional and beautiful rather than simply messy.
The scarlet Flanders Poppy and magenta Corncockle give the classic cornfield colour in the first summer, and Oxeye Daisies bring the white of an old hay meadow. Knautia 'Melton Pastels' weaves crimson, coral and lilac pincushions through everything around it on thin wiry stems, and Daucus 'Dara' adds lace that opens pink and deepens to chocolate. Two annuals, a biennial and two perennials, so the meadow keeps coming back.
Creating the Look
These plants need bare soil — do not sow into grass. Prepare a weed-free patch of border and rake to a fine tilth. Sow the poppies and corncockle in September–October to mimic nature, or March–May for a summer display. Start the Knautia and Daucus in spring and plant them out among the annuals. Avoid straight rows: sow in irregular drifts or kidney shapes for a natural, flowing result.
Every flower in this collection is a good nectar source — turning your flower bed into a refuelling station for bees and butterflies. For a more modern, naturalistic look, see The Prairie Meadow Collection.
