5 Reasons Why You Should Grow Wildflowers
Honored to be included in this - thanks, American Meadows!
It's National Wildflower Week! 🌸
Here are 5 reasons you should grow wildflowers this year:
Wildflowers attract pollinators, and we need pollinators for our food supply. Pollinators are responsible for one in every three bites of food we eat. Bonus: you get to enjoy honeybees and a variety of butterflies around your flowers all summer, which is magic.
Wildflowers are easy to plant. Prepare your soil, then simply scatter seeds and lightly compress them into the soil by walking on them. No need for rows or landscape fabric.
Wildflowers use less water than manicured lawns. After the initial phase of watering until the seedlings pop, just let the rains water them!
Wildflowers require barely any maintenance. No need for pruning or weeding, just let them keep growing all summer long. In middle TN, our wildflowers thrive all the way through summer until the first frost in late October/early November.
Wildflowers help prevent erosion. Bare dirt and mulch easily get washed out by rains, but planting wildflowers helps prevent this as their roots soak up the water into the soil. This is a functional, more beautiful usage of a bare patch of dirt in your yard.
🌸 Please go chemical-free and never spray the area where you’re growing flowers for pollinators. Or anywhere else. 🙏🏼
🌸 Check our favorite wildflower seed source, American Meadows, for meadowscaping ideas on how to grow living lawns instead of perfectly manicured lawns that require tons of water and maintenance.
