Backyard meadow

Even a small garden can enjoy a beautiful mini meadow with wildflowers. It's easy - but not as simple as just letting your grass grow. Find out here!

There are no shortcuts to creating a meadow—but if you follow James Hitchmough's guidelines you can create your own naturalistic landscape. Here's how.

The latest trend is for wildflower garden ideas featuring hazy swathes of planting and a wash of pretty pastel colors

Create a meadow you can frolic through.

10 Ideas for Designing a Meadow Garden Dream up a meadow in your own backyard with these top planting and design tips What Is a Meadow Garden? A meadow garden is an environmentally-friendly alternative to a turf lawn. Primarily planted with unthirsty grasses, meadows get added visual interest from wildflowers and natives. And gardeners who favor a light touch will love the low maintenance of a meadow garden: poor soil is actually favorable to meadow plants, so no compost, fertilizer, or…

A backyard meadow of grasses and wildflowers was the farthest thing from Catherine and Greg Stern's mind when they bought their Spanish-colonial style hous

A backyard meadow of grasses and wildflowers was the farthest thing from Catherine and Greg Stern's mind when they bought their Spanish-colonial style hous

Within their smallholding on the Hampshire Downs, landscape architects Kim Wilkie and Pip Morrison have created an idyllic garden designed to be part of the wider picture, where wildlife, livestock and humans can exist harmoniously side by side in nature

Many positive things can be said for planting a meadow garden, but meadows aren't one size fits all. Learn elements of different meadow garden designs.

It is a sobering thought that no one alive has ever experienced a Winter and Spring in the UK as wet as this has been and, as we go into April, there is no sign of the rain stopping. This obviously affects every garden and gardener but, on the up side, it has been mild and everything is growing well