Imagine spending just one day a year tending to your perennial garden. Instead of obsessively weeding, fertilizing, upgrading your soil, deadheading and spraying with pesticides you have the opportunity to simply enjoy your garden. Then imagine the pure pleasure you experience strolling through your backyard paradise bursting with colour, alive with butterflies and songbirds.

Next, imagine lounging on the front porch, feet up as you watch your neighbors tend to their lawn yet again. They’re insanely jealous that you only mow your lawn once a month, never water it, fertilize it or aerate it and it looks absolutely fabulous!

What IS this weirdly easy approach to gardening you’ve discovered? It’s not rocket science. You’ve discovered the joy of wildflower gardening.

Wildflower gardens are built on common sense solutions. Here’s how you can create a low maintenance, cost effective natural landscape for your property.

Work With What You’ve Got! Plant hardy perennial wildflowers that thrive in the soil you’ve got on your property. Though it’s possible to change your soil conditions it’s a lengthy, relentless and expensive process. No need to cart in tons of expensive topsoil or triple mix . Got clay? Work with plants that thrive in pure clay. Gardening at the cottage? Fill your garden with plants that thrive in pure beach sand!

Here are some clay loving plants: Lavender hyssop, Columbine, New England Aster, Lanceleaf Coreopsis, Pale Purple Coneflower, Oxe Eye Sunflower, Prairie Blazing Star, Bergamot, Yellow Coneflower, Ironweed, Culver’s Root and Little Blue Stem.

Sand loving wildflowers include: Leadplant, Butterflyweed, Sky Blue Aster, Cream False Indigo, Harebell, New Jersey Tea, Stiff Coreopsis, Rattlesnake Master, Prairie Smoke, Rough Blazing Star, Lupin, Dotted Mint and Purple Prairie Clover.

Go With The Locals! Hardy perennial wildflowers have thrived in North America for thousands of years! Mother Nature’s built them to withstand floods, droughts, harsh winters and brutally hot summers. You can’t go wrong! Once established these plants require absolutely no fertilization or watering. Mother nature offers a magnificent collection of perennial plants that will bring beautiful color to your garden from springtime right to frost. And, wildflower gardens can be designed as formal, traditional perennial gardens or in a relaxed meadow style. Either way, you enjoy the low maintenance benefits of these long-lived plants.

Butterfly And Songbird Bonus! Wildflowers attract more butterflies and songbirds than hybridized plants. For thousands of years wildflowers, butterflies and songbirds have evolved together and created a superb mutual support system. The wildflowers provide top quality nutrition to the butterflies and birds. In turn the beneficial wildlife keep the wildflower species alive through pollination and plant propagation. Plant wildflowers and your yard will come alive with lovely creatures!

Low Maintenance Lawn! A truly low maintenance lawn and garden can be yours when you plant a perennial wildflower garden and surround that garden with Eco-Lawn, Wildflower Farm’s low-maintenance turf grass. Eco-Lawn is the ultimate low maintenance lawn. A specially designed blend of fine fescue grasses, it grows to form a dense turf on loam, well-drained clay and even in infertile, dry soils. Eco-Lawn thrives in full sun, part shade, in deep shade conditions and even under pine trees. Eco-Lawn reduces your maintenance time and costs. With Eco-Lawn you don’t have to mow, water, fertilize or aerate. Eco-lawn is a very slow growing grass. Mow Eco-Lawn no more than once a month to a height of 3 to 4 inches for a classic lawn look. Or, you can mow it every 6 weeks for a “relaxed lawn look.”

For more information on wildflower gardening and Eco-Lawn visit: www.wildflowerfarm.com or call toll free 1-866-GRO-WILD (476-9453)

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