Sewing a Wildflower Verge

 I have collapsed with a cuppa after completing a gardening job I have been meaning to do for the last couple of years.

This space is a small verge of scrubby grass, it is next to a layby on the other side of our fence. It always looks a mess and ends up full of peoples rubbish that they delightfully throw out of their cars.

I have had a dream for a long time to try and turn this into wildflower verge. 

Last weekend Mr MC&W mowed it and this weekend along with the help of my middle son we raked the whole area to remove 50% of the scrubby grass. This was a hard, exhausting and not pleasant job but I am sure worth it.

I decided to water the area as it has been so dry, with the space raked and watered we were able to seed it.

I bought from Chiltern Seeds 11 packets of Hedgerow perennial seed mix. Together we scattered the seeds.

I know these areas are not the easiest to make work but I felt we had to give it a chance and see what happens. If we can have a verge of beautiful flowers I will be thrilled and if it does not work I will rethink and try something different.