@@TheTimelapseTeam it’s funny because on my street this year nobody cut the grass. And I mean nobody it’s like a waiting game of who will mow first and fail the challenge. It’s quite beautiful too. When you accept that weeds is a lost cause anyway haha
@@cliverussel2792 I'm my area during lockdown the council stopped cutting the grass along the roads. There were so many flowers it was very beautiful. They have now moved to cutting only essential areas so we have lots of flowers this spring too
Thank you 😊. Best of luck with your meadow I'm sure it will be very beautiful. Wildflower meadows are wonderful to look at all the way through the summer!
I rent... The previous tenant removed some patio stones from the 20' x 20' backyard. WILDFLOWERS TIME (now that I removed the massive 20 year old thorn bush that threatened my toddler).
I'm from the PNW as well. Where did you get your seeds or what brand or company sells them and when did you sow them? This person didn't seem to cover or rake theirs in at all, and it looks like it's in a greenhouse, but I feed the birds and worry they'll eat all my flower seeds. How do you prevent that? I've never planted wildflowers before but would like to this year, i bought some packets from $Tree, but our yard is tiny and the bed I'd plant them in is where we have all of our bird feeders. Should I plant them in pots instead, away from the bird feeders, and cover with a light layer of soil or mulch? I'd appreciate any advice you could give.
This is really helpful. I’m designing a new pond/meadow/bog area in my garden and I didn’t realise how tall these plants are! Going to switch my bog garden and meadow round, as there’s a bench that needs a view into the pond. Cheers!
@@TheTimelapseTeam I am seeing mine start to grow, though I have some rolie polies crawling around. Will be placing oranges tomorrow night to get them out of there! Fingers crossed 🥺
There’s a local house not even a mile away from mine and they’re backyard is filled luxuriously to the brim with wildflowers of all sorts and kinds. They also have many bees that pollinate the flowers and they harvest the honey from them for ten bucks for a container a bit larger than a store-bought plastic honey bear.
So beautiful ❤️ unfortunately, we have a few too many birds and small critters that like to eat up the seeds, so all my attempts at a similar field of flowers have failed so far 🤭 I don't mind, critters need to eat as well. This year I'm trying pre-sowing inside and planting the flowers outside when they're a bit bigger, now the only thing to worry about is snail attacks. Fingers crossed they'll survive this year!
Hello! You can get seed balls, or seed bombs. They have the seeds enclosed in clay so the birds cannot peck at them all at once. As it rains the clay slowly washes away and the seeds are distributed ready to germinate. Some even contain chilli to further discourage nibbling. You could try a few of them and maybe hang some bird feeders? Good luck!
I would love to give you a small advce for the next time you plant wild flowers :) Premix the seeds in a 10:1 ratio with soil or sand and scater the mix on top of the fresh soil. This way you will have not an overdose of seeds and you plants will be able to grasp better into the soil.
This is what I've always told folks trying to grow poppies. Unless you want to do a lot of thinning or have plants choking each other, best to add sand to increase dispersion
I take a few packs of poppy seeds and add them to a bucket of about 3 parts sand and 1 part decent soil…mix it together then spread the contents around my garden mid April. Likely get abour 10% flowers which is still more than plenty.
Wow incredible 👏 and keeps changing something new all the time fantastic. Do you need 2 protect seedlings from slugs please. Planting tomorrow thanks so much.
Thank you 😊. I didn't protect from slugs and it was fine but might be worth it if you can. Probably depends on your climate and how prolific slugs are in your area
I've been looking for ideas I have so much wildflower seeds. What happens at the end of season do you cut everything down to the base of the flowers ? Just wondering if the perennial plants will grow back if you cut them all back and do you reseed where the annuals used to be?
They live in Britain. I saw them say in another comment that this is a British wild flower pack. But I would recommended you buy a local wild flower mix at a garden shop in your area. Also be careful because often the local wildflower packs also include non-native flowers...
It was a British wildflower seeds mix. Yes mostly annuals. I only had them in the bed for one summer as I needed that space for veg next year but the would resend themselves. You normally need to cut back each year to stop grasses taking over if planning to grow for multiple years
It wasn't a British wildflower mix, even if labelled so. There are non-native flowers there, such as California Poppy. Many "wildflower" mixes have species which are not native to where they are sold.
You've got to cut it every late summer/early fall with a scythe or something similar that only cuts the grass once, not rips it or mulches it. After cutting (which month depends on your location) let everything lie in place for a couple of weeks to allow time for reseeding. The last step, and the most important one at that is to remove the clippings from the area. Put it on a compost pile, under bushes or as ground cover in the garden, as long as it's gone from your flower field you're good. If you let it decompose, the much faster growing weeds and grasses will smother the flowers the coming years and will eventually take over the whole patch. Nothing wrong with that really, but a seed mix often looks better than a weed patch.
@@sh-hg4eg I bought a wildflower mix here in Chile to grow in the spring and after my usual extensive research about every plant included in the mix, turns out none of them are native to the whole of south America, the closest one was mexican, 90% are US natives and the other 10% are mixed african daisies and such. My whole intention was to help native bees/bugs and now idk if to actually plant them or not :(
@@rowenalvarado6816 Hi. Don't worry, you can just plant them in your garden, just don't sow them in the wild nature. In your garden it's fine. Bees will love it. And everything is better than concrete or lawn. Just sow them this year and look for a native mix next year.
What do you do once they are done flowering for the season as this cannot be mowed like a typical lawn. How do you manage with flowers that have different bloom periods since flowers dry and die out while others start to bloom.
1. Wait until they form seeds, collect the seeds for next year and pull everything out. 2. I take out the dry ones when they start to dry out or after I collected the seeds, and then I fill up the gaps with new seeds or seedlings that bloom later in the year, like cosmos or zinnia. Good luck. Depends on your climate zone also.
Just to point out, some of those flowers are NOT British wildflowers. You can clearly see California Poppies in that mix. Many "wildflower" mixes contain flowers which are not wild to where they are sold. Use caution.
complete novice. i'm thinking of doing this at my home, i'm very lazy, so what kind of maintenance is there in the winter time? do i need to cut it in winter? do any soil prep for the next year? etc. apologies for my stupidity.
And why are you worried about clothes? See how the lilies and wildflowers of the field grow; they do not labor nor do they spin [wool to make clothing], yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory and splendor dressed himself like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive and green today and tomorrow is [cut and] thrown [as fuel] into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith! - Matthew 6:28-30
I'm so happy that people are grateful for people who do these timelapses. The comments seem so positive!
Every roadside should look like this.
Why not eh? Love this idea.
Totally. Make it happen 😂
It’s somewhat wholesome to watch flowers grow from tiny little seeds to beautiful blooming specks of colour.
Was a short lawn well trim guy, but I decided to dedicate half of my front yard to wild flowers this year.
Nice one! It's such a good thing for bees and insects to convert grass lawn to wild flowers
@@TheTimelapseTeam it’s funny because on my street this year nobody cut the grass. And I mean nobody it’s like a waiting game of who will mow first and fail the challenge. It’s quite beautiful too. When you accept that weeds is a lost cause anyway haha
@@cliverussel2792 I'm my area during lockdown the council stopped cutting the grass along the roads. There were so many flowers it was very beautiful. They have now moved to cutting only essential areas so we have lots of flowers this spring too
Wow at first I thought the planting was going to be a bust, but then it turned into a non-stop flower parade! MESMERIZING
So much more beautiful and useful than a boring lawn! 🌸💮🏵🌹🥀🌺🌻🌼🌷⚘☘🍀💐
At some point, it looks like a Monet painting. Incredible!
I feel the vibration of life from this wild flower bed. Really touched my heart. Thank you!
why am I crying about flowers.. that was beautiful 🥺 the zoom in got me
I love especially the bit when red poppies sing out like a soprano hitting the high notes.
amazing. starting my own mini meadow this month.
Thank you 😊. Best of luck with your meadow I'm sure it will be very beautiful. Wildflower meadows are wonderful to look at all the way through the summer!
I rent... The previous tenant removed some patio stones from the 20' x 20' backyard. WILDFLOWERS TIME (now that I removed the massive 20 year old thorn bush that threatened my toddler).
I started mine yesterday! Nothing has come up sofar though .. 🙃 LOL
So beautiful! I can't wait to watch my beds of PNW native wildflowers grow this year!
I'm from the PNW as well. Where did you get your seeds or what brand or company sells them and when did you sow them? This person didn't seem to cover or rake theirs in at all, and it looks like it's in a greenhouse, but I feed the birds and worry they'll eat all my flower seeds. How do you prevent that? I've never planted wildflowers before but would like to this year, i bought some packets from $Tree, but our yard is tiny and the bed I'd plant them in is where we have all of our bird feeders. Should I plant them in pots instead, away from the bird feeders, and cover with a light layer of soil or mulch? I'd appreciate any advice you could give.
This is so exciting! I have 2 large planters and am on Day 1 ❤ This is so lovely! Thanks for sharing!
This is really helpful. I’m designing a new pond/meadow/bog area in my garden and I didn’t realise how tall these plants are! Going to switch my bog garden and meadow round, as there’s a bench that needs a view into the pond. Cheers!
Absolutely stunning. Watching the beauty of nature unfold is a gift to hold close to your heart.
Thank you for sharing x
Outstanding, thank you for taking the time to show what is possible. Very hopeful to see what I planted to be half as productive.
Ooo so pretty, I'm watching this waiting for mine to grow, it's my first time and I just planted them today
That's awesome! They are so lovely to look at later on in the year when the flowering starts. Good luck with your flowers!
I just put mine down!!!
Any updates on how they look now? ❤️
@@TheTimelapseTeam I am seeing mine start to grow, though I have some rolie polies crawling around. Will be placing oranges tomorrow night to get them out of there! Fingers crossed 🥺
@@tamyiarich8980 do the Rolly pollies eat the flowers? I planted some last week and have a ton of them in my garden bed
Thank you for making this! I thoroughly enjoyed this! So beautiful, and how when one fades another opens, it's just so pretty!
The flowers look butterflies when they open and close. So beautiful!!
There’s a local house not even a mile away from mine and they’re backyard is filled luxuriously to the brim with wildflowers of all sorts and kinds. They also have many bees that pollinate the flowers and they harvest the honey from them for ten bucks for a container a bit larger than a store-bought plastic honey bear.
I would love to live next to them❤
So beautiful! I really enjoyed that. Thank you!
beautiful video - thanks for the patience to capture this on film.
Wow! It took a long time to see the flowers bloom! I’m impatient! Haha
A gardener has to be patient. 60 days for the first bloom.
Just planted some seeds. Looking forward to watching them grow into colorful flowers.
Thank you for showing this. I just planted 19k wild flower seeds for my garden. Hoping I won't kill them and they will end up as beautiful as this
Gorgeous ❤
That was exhilarating! Thank you! I feel so happy right now. It’s weird!
I think that’s a sane and healthy reaction 😊
I planted my babies a few months ago.Oh my God,do I love them,so awesome!
That turned out great! makes me want to try one of those pollinator seed mixes in one of my raised beds now
I did that, this past summer. It was pretty and attracted hummingbirds as well as bees
So beautiful ❤️ unfortunately, we have a few too many birds and small critters that like to eat up the seeds, so all my attempts at a similar field of flowers have failed so far 🤭 I don't mind, critters need to eat as well. This year I'm trying pre-sowing inside and planting the flowers outside when they're a bit bigger, now the only thing to worry about is snail attacks. Fingers crossed they'll survive this year!
Hello! You can get seed balls, or seed bombs. They have the seeds enclosed in clay so the birds cannot peck at them all at once. As it rains the clay slowly washes away and the seeds are distributed ready to germinate. Some even contain chilli to further discourage nibbling. You could try a few of them and maybe hang some bird feeders? Good luck!
@@dafferdill6181
Forget buying seed bombs, just make em yourself! Good fun for the kids to get in on too.
Feed apart the birds too hehe
@@rainynight02 they didn't say to buy them...
@@facelessdrone
"Get" implies "purchase" aka "buy."
Don't be dense.
Nature is so beautiful
Your flower beds look awesome!
amazing, wow just beautiful! i thought about doing this in a kiddie pool!
i cried. i wish i had a garden. a field of beautiful flowers would be right in the center as the crown.
enjoyed that ! do another time lapse!!!
I planted mine in medio march and here in april they've sprouted a tiny bit 😅 Awesome time lapse
It’s very difficult to grow large wildflower gardens. It’s a constant battle against grasses, weeds, and deer. But the payoff is so beautiful.
So beautiful
🌺🕊💐🕊🌺
I want this in my room your honor they're beautiful 😍
Very nice
Im too late to plant my seeds this year but next year im dedicating my garden to wildflowers!
❤ amazing
Thank you for this.
Thank you for this! Really helpful to compare how well my flower garden is doing
I'm going to give it a try this year, wish me luck:)
Beautiful timelapse😊
Wow, THAT was really beautiful and just relaxing to watch. Guess I need to get out to my little garden. Thanks! p
Thank you so much.. it's really mesmerizing
That song in the middle sounds like homesickness or intense yearning. It's heartbreaking.
Beautiful
Beautiful!!❤
I would love to give you a small advce for the next time you plant wild flowers :) Premix the seeds in a 10:1 ratio with soil or sand and scater the mix on top of the fresh soil. This way you will have not an overdose of seeds and you plants will be able to grasp better into the soil.
Thanks for the advice. I failed to grow wild flowers in my garden. It is not easy to grow as I have clay soil
This is what I've always told folks trying to grow poppies. Unless you want to do a lot of thinning or have plants choking each other, best to add sand to increase dispersion
Yea i actually thought this wild "garden" was pretty bad,way too dense and flower even started falling over in june!
very nice timelapse!
I’m going to do this beside my swimming pool
LOVE this
Good. For. Butterflys
great video!
Just planted mine today in raised garden bed aswell, I'm in zone 9B and it's hot as hell down here.
How was it?
In your zone its better to sow in autumn, just before the first big rain, I think. Just like in nature.
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I grew wildflowers from seed on a dusty corner of a rented house. Blooming all year around. Not sure if should trim back.
Such a beautiful video!Are this flowers perennial?
Woahhh amazed that the camera didn’t move for months 😳😳😳
amazing timelapse. I love poppies but can't get them to grow anywhere that's not concrete
I take a few packs of poppy seeds and add them to a bucket of about 3 parts sand and 1 part decent soil…mix it together then spread the contents around my garden mid April. Likely get abour 10% flowers which is still more than plenty.
Early on, they all move the same way, like budget 3D animation characters.
Hey! This is beautiful, and soothing. What zone are you in?
Wonderful. How many pictures per day did you take, or did you make short videos? I would like to try this myself.
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can we just spead it? do we really have to prepare?
About how many seeds do you think were planted?
so gorgeous. Thank you! Green manure seems to sprout flowers so early, so i am planting them a few days and weeks apart
I'm at day 10496 and those little bastards sill haven't sprouted yet but I'm not leaving until the video is over!
Wow incredible 👏 and keeps changing something new all the time fantastic. Do you need 2 protect seedlings from slugs please. Planting tomorrow thanks so much.
Thank you 😊. I didn't protect from slugs and it was fine but might be worth it if you can. Probably depends on your climate and how prolific slugs are in your area
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Would be helpful to know what month it started I'm guessing May
I've been looking for ideas I have so much wildflower seeds. What happens at the end of season do you cut everything down to the base of the flowers ? Just wondering if the perennial plants will grow back if you cut them all back and do you reseed where the annuals used to be?
Can these be grown in southeast (Maryville, TN) in March? I keep reading Fall is when to throw wildflower seeds down. Please help. Thank you
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Any tips? 💗
Water it once and forget it?
So do these come back every year?
What month did you plant them?
Awesome, what where the seed mixes?
They live in Britain. I saw them say in another comment that this is a British wild flower pack. But I would recommended you buy a local wild flower mix at a garden shop in your area. Also be careful because often the local wildflower packs also include non-native flowers...
What brand of wild flower seeds? I live in uk and some people found no luck with certain wild flower packs but it’s come out amazing with u :) X
What seed mix was used, was this annuals? Also how did you maintain it afterwards - did you need to strim it?
It was a British wildflower seeds mix. Yes mostly annuals. I only had them in the bed for one summer as I needed that space for veg next year but the would resend themselves. You normally need to cut back each year to stop grasses taking over if planning to grow for multiple years
It wasn't a British wildflower mix, even if labelled so. There are non-native flowers there, such as California Poppy. Many "wildflower" mixes have species which are not native to where they are sold.
You've got to cut it every late summer/early fall with a scythe or something similar that only cuts the grass once, not rips it or mulches it.
After cutting (which month depends on your location) let everything lie in place for a couple of weeks to allow time for reseeding.
The last step, and the most important one at that is to remove the clippings from the area. Put it on a compost pile, under bushes or as ground cover in the garden, as long as it's gone from your flower field you're good.
If you let it decompose, the much faster growing weeds and grasses will smother the flowers the coming years and will eventually take over the whole patch. Nothing wrong with that really, but a seed mix often looks better than a weed patch.
@@sh-hg4eg I bought a wildflower mix here in Chile to grow in the spring and after my usual extensive research about every plant included in the mix, turns out none of them are native to the whole of south America, the closest one was mexican, 90% are US natives and the other 10% are mixed african daisies and such. My whole intention was to help native bees/bugs and now idk if to actually plant them or not :(
@@rowenalvarado6816 Hi. Don't worry, you can just plant them in your garden, just don't sow them in the wild nature. In your garden it's fine. Bees will love it. And everything is better than concrete or lawn.
Just sow them this year and look for a native mix next year.
Great video!
What is the latest date I can sow annual wildflower seeds in the UK to get flowers in the same year?
Me watching this realising i put flower seeds in a plant pot for in my room that is way too small😳i also did not put one or two put multiple
I wanna lay there down and sleep...
What do you do once they are done flowering for the season as this cannot be mowed like a typical lawn.
How do you manage with flowers that have different bloom periods since flowers dry and die out while others start to bloom.
1. Wait until they form seeds, collect the seeds for next year and pull everything out.
2. I take out the dry ones when they start to dry out or after I collected the seeds, and then I fill up the gaps with new seeds or seedlings that bloom later in the year, like cosmos or zinnia. Good luck. Depends on your climate zone also.
What seed mix did you use ? Only asking as I got some an they were nothing like these.
It chose a local variety pack, so for me it was a British wildflowers seed mix
Just to point out, some of those flowers are NOT British wildflowers. You can clearly see California Poppies in that mix. Many "wildflower" mixes contain flowers which are not wild to where they are sold. Use caution.
Pikmin!!!
I get to wonder what they are actually saying to each other.
complete novice. i'm thinking of doing this at my home, i'm very lazy, so what kind of maintenance is there in the winter time? do i need to cut it in winter? do any soil prep for the next year? etc. apologies for my stupidity.
They are beautiful, but it took so long to grow, I thought wildflowers were fast growers
Who was that, at 0:51 ? !!! (bottom left)
How much weight seed was this?
What zone you in?
Purdy.
What state or area is this in?
This is in the UK, but inside a polytunnel so equivalent to a much hotter climate (something like Spain roughly)
And why are you worried about clothes? See how the lilies and wildflowers of the field grow; they do not labor nor do they spin [wool to make clothing], yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory and splendor dressed himself like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive and green today and tomorrow is [cut and] thrown [as fuel] into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith! - Matthew 6:28-30
I feel like most people sow them way too tight. The plants seem very fragile and elongated.
Agreed I put way mire seeds than normal in this bed