Preparing My Wildflower Meadow For Winter | After Bloom Care | Seed Saving 🐝🦋

We had such fantastic colour from this wildflower meadow throughout the Summer with first white and blue blooms, followed by yellow and purple. It was a constant buzzing with pollinators enjoying the space as much as we did!
Now it's time to give the meadow a bit of aftercare, cut it back and save seeds! I'm going to keep the nurse grass short for the autumn/winter and resow in Spring to ensure another beautiful show of blooms 💚
Saving seeds is really easy, all you have to do is harvest the seedheads, let them dry thoroughly (I typically wait 1 month) in a dry place and then store in paper envelopes in a cool, dark and dry place.
Videos mentioned:
Creating A Wildflower Meadow in a Small Urban Garden ☀️🌱❤️ | Get Ready For Summer!
🎥 • Creating A Wildflower ...
I Planted A Wildflower Meadow 🌼🐝🦋| Amazing Lawn Transformation | From Seeds to Blooms
🎥 • I Planted A Wildflower...
What's New in the Garden | Harvesting Foxglove and Nasturtium Seeds | Get Ready For Fall 🍁🍂
🎥 • What's New in the Gard...
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[@leesapollo]

Just watched the three videos on your wildflower meadow. You’re so knowledgeable. I will 100% be doing this in my garden! Thanks.

[@bobbiostudio]

Oh wow thanks 🙏 That’s brilliant 😍, I hope you will enjoy your meadow as much as the pollinators will ❤️

[@meganlobrien]

So helpful for a beginner gardener! Thank you! ♡

[@bobbiostudio]

So glad you found it helpful 🥰😘😘

[@Heidi-Beth]

Love all the different seed textures.

[@bobbiostudio]

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[@ChipsGreenWorld]

Fabulous little gardening vlog ✅ well done 👍🏼🌱 Chip 🌱 CHIPS WORLD 👋🏼

[@rianajansevanrensburg2444]

Love your seed bag. Thanks for the videos. Just in time for me to start to prepare a space. I am in the process of clearing some more lawn

[@bobbiostudio]

Thanks 🥰 Oh it’s always so exciting to have a new garden project, isn’t it? 💚

[@haroldriley7117]

This is a helpful video. P.S. I love your accent!

[@bobbiostudio]

Glad you found it helpful 😊

[@EliezaBaby]

I love your seeds lunch bag 😍

[@bobbiostudio]

Thanks 🥰❤️!! It was a gift from my sister 😊

[@bobmarley6161]

Great ideas... Much appreciated

[@tempgirl00711]

Beautiful! I love this look. But I'd need to stick to perennials, so I don't have to cut them all back. I keep them now but only after dealing with annuals for a few years. I still mix in a few annuals but only a few..

[@bobmarley6161]

Lol you'll be in foxglove heaven with all those seeds...

[@bobbiostudio]

They are popping up everywhere 😁

[@Nora_meow99]

So beautiful 🌷

[@bobbiostudio]

Thank you so much 🥰

[@dianesanfilippo6816]

Great video. So helpful as I plan my own meadow!

[@bobbiostudio]

I’m so glad it was helpful 🥰🥰 wishing you many blooms & happy pollinators 🐝🌱🌼💚

[@bobmarley6161]

Your very organised.... I just put them all in one envelope...

[@patriciasmith9039]

Oxeye daisies are one of the most invasive plants on the planet…if they’re not kept to a minimum, they’ll take over all other plants…I dug up one clump, planted it in my flower garden, divided it three times and STILL have tons of daisies..in some countries, they’re treated like weeds and are exterminated…that being said, I still love them and will keep them in my garden but will deadhead them before they reseed .BTW, I love your wildflower garden…this will be my next project…great video!

[@bobbiostudio]

Hi Patricia, thanks for letting us know, I’ll keep an eye on them to make sure they don’t overtake the meadow!! Thank you so much ❤️ It’s been a lovely change in the garden, can’t wait to see what happens this year with it!! Oh I hope you do, it was such a heaven for wildlife ❤️

[@rambukah76]

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[@antenna7851]

Thank you so much for these videos! I was wondering if you have to do the thing you did in first video every year? Or do they just bloom after you mowed?

[@bobbiostudio]

Glad they are helpful! 🥰 No you don’t have to resow every year (I’ve just added more varieties (new video up) but that’s completely optional). For annuals: If you wait until the flowers have set seed to cutback before Winter, they should shelf seed and you will have more blooms the following year! For perennials: Perennials wildflowers (e.g yarrow) will grow back when mowed and will possibly self seed too 😊 (It might be difficult to mow long grass/tall flowers so you may have to use a strimmer and take away the cuttings or cut by hand!) Keep an eye on perennial weeds and remove as many as possible before they set seed!!

[@Krisztina1978]

Hi, I'm new to this channel! 😊 I'm thinking of creating a wildflower bed. Aren't these flowers selfseeding flowers? Do I have to resow them for the next season? ❤

[@bobbiostudio]

Hi welcome ! 🤗 yes they could likely self seed if you don’t mow the meadow before they are ripe 🌱 (especially the ox-eye daisy which can be invasive)

[@Narnendil]

Lovely meadow! But I'm sorry, are you sure those are ox-eye daisies? Because they looked more like chamomile or something similar to that.

[@bobbiostudio]

Thanks 🥰!! It did say ox-eye daisy on the seed mix but you’re right they are very close 🌼!!!

[@ninesteps369]

Did you say you planted the seeds in early spring ? Can I do it now to have them next year? Thanks

[@bobbiostudio]

Yes early spring or you can sow in Autumn 😊 good luck 😘😘

[@ninesteps369]

@@bobbiostudio Thanks😊

[@Imyourfather225]

they looks well alive, why just dont wait till the naturally dry and mow after that. I dont see all this work needed.

[@bobbiostudio]

I could have waited longer indeed 😊

[@TerryMcGearyScotland]

I should have collected separately as you have. Instead I just put a handful of mixed matured plant heads in to a vase in the green house and let them dry and over winter. Then crushed them onto paper and scattered over the area along with fresh purchased seeds.I have a gram or two of poppy seeds gathered to stop self seeding. These will be scattered elsewhere (a few went back in to the meadow).

[@bobbiostudio]

I was thinking the opposite 😇, I went trough the trouble of harvesting them separately only to mix them up again 😂 How is your meadow doing? Hopefully not too many poppies this year 🤞?

[@TerryMcGearyScotland]

@@bobbiostudio Not a solitary normal poppy! I have a huge California poppy (or maybe it's several) looking absolutely brilliant every day. The rest are just dragging ther feet (apart from Senecio/groundsel that I suspect may have been in the pelletted chicken manure I generously scattered everywhere). BIt of a disappointment but there's still time...Fingers crossed yours will be looking good all through.

[@buzzlightyear120]

Can i get some of seeds from u😊