Wildflowers are so important for sustaining our pollinators and other wildlife. Often dismissed as weeds, many of these plants are just as beautiful as their highly bred counterparts, but offer so much more in terms of food and habitat for wildlife.
Amongst the wildflowers in our garden are corn poppies, yellow rattle, crested dogtail, foxglove, meadowsweet and corncockle. Yellow rattle is a very important species, as it reduces the soil fertility, making it more suitable for wildflowers to succeed.
A wildflower garden will support a variety of species, not just pollinators and other insects but also creatures that depend on them as a food source, such as birds and bats.
Ponds, too, are havens for insect life, often sustaining proportionately more species than larger ecosystems such as rivers and lakes. Our pond is a beautiful quiet space to sit and watch the wildlife come and go.
