greencube garden and landscape design, UK

I'm thrilled to be shortlisted for this garden - wildlife friendly garden. WE have lost over 90% of our wildflower meadows in the last century. I have been nurturing this patch of meadow and working on its diversity to help moths, butterflies, bees and insects. See us in this months Garden design Journal, do vote if you think we deserve the peoples choice peoples choice link

Our modern meadow has been shortlisted in a national garden design competition. The Society of Garden Designers Awards for 2020 See feature in  Homes and Gardens Website and please vote for us if you feel this garden deserves to win the  'Peoples Choice' A career goal, personal achievement and a fantastic warm glow to be nominated as a finalist in a national garden design award. Thank you SGD judges for choosing our garden. We were luck enough to be finalists last year: Jewel Garden in Kensington, London and a Small Garden in New Barn, Kent and so are super chuffed to be back in the final this year, a lthough  we now have to wait until the awards evening at the end of January 2020 so keeping everything crossed....... So what's different about this garden? This garden is a little special - I collected the brief from my husband  who is mad about wildlife,  interested in insects, moths and butterflies, he runs a moth trap in th...

Greencube's own Meadow Study Meadow Making re-post  Here in my own garden, just outside the studio window we have worked hard creating a meadow.  This is our view from our workplace and I wanted an uncluttered, dreamy space that frees the mind to enable us to work without too many external influences.  The garden has been scraped to remove all nutrient rich top soil leaving a sandy sub-base clearing - nettles, couch grass and other weeds. We have sown two types of meadow seed and we are currently enjoying the following: Annual Seed Mix Cornflower's Corn Marigold's Common poppy Corn Chamomile Perennial Seed Mix Wild Carrot Bulbous Buttercup Yarrow Cowslip Meadow seed supplied by  really wild flowers There are over 20 other species of meadow seed to germinate and grow through the season, so I'll take further photos and record the success (or failure) of each. We have seen many butterfly visitors including: Peacock...

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The enchanting but often overlooked hoverflies are out on the fennel in our dry border. Great pollinators. We think the first image is a  Syrphus ribessi   https://www.discoverwildlife.com/how-to/identify-wildlife/how-to-identify-hoverflies/ This dry border contains lots of self seeding plants including Cephalaria  gigantea, Foeniculum vulgare, Verbena bonariensis. The ornamental grass in the background is Calamagrostis 'Karl Foerster'. Its a wonderful border full of movement, I'm keeping a look out for a Hummingbird Hawkmoth, not seen one this year in our garden.