Meadow-making helps preserve our fragile environment from further decline but it requires knowledge and skill to create a successful meadow.
In this timely book, Pam Lewis's passion for traditional pasture management and the preservation of our native species of plants and her extensive meadow-making experience, are translated into an easy-to-read, informative and highly practical text on creating and preserving wildflower meadows - from the smallest garden meadow to large-scale field projects.
Reflects the current interest in wildlife gardening, naturalistic planting and gardening with native species
Contains techniques that apply equally to large and small spaces
Contents:
How hay meadows evolved
- making meadows
- types of meadow - the Davey meadow, the new hay meadow, the garden meadow, small grassland projects
- grassland plants at Sticky Wicket
- meadow-grass and wildflower seeds