Gardener and writer Mary Keen shares her thoughts on gardening’s answer to herding cats: trying to get a wildflower meadow to behave.
Meadows have a mind of their own. This summer, my little patch of un-lawn — roughly the size of a tennis court — has become a thicket of wild carrot. Last August, by comparison, there was a fairly balanced mix of scabious, knapweed and carrot.
In spring this year, I removed some plants of the meadow scabious and replaced them with…
