With our Small Wildflower Plug Plant Collection, you can easily fill two or three pots, or a trug-style planter (our Traditional Crate Planter would work well), to create a mini wildflower meadow patch in your garden.
What should I fill the pots with?
Use a multi purpose compost, preferably with a few handfuls of wormcast fertiliser which will slowly release nutrients during the summer. If you don’t use wormcast fertiliser, use a liquid feed once a month during the summer months as the plants will quickly use the nutrients in the compost. (This is different from growing in the ground – the main difference being that in pots, the wildflowers will need a little extra food during the growing season, whereas in the ground we would advise NOT feeding the plants.)
What size pot should I choose?
You can use whatever pots or planter you can get your hands on – there are no rules. Something with a bit of depth is good as the wildflowers grow quite densely and will do well for extra soil depth to nourish them, but anything that is bigger than 20x20cm will be fine.
How many wildflower plugs to a pot?
This depends on the size of pot, but we’d suggest you plant the plugs quite close together in the pots/containers to give dense growth. About 5cm apart works well.
When will the wildflowers flower?
There are multiple seeds in each plug that you’ll receive, and these will grow and flower at different times during summer and autumn.
You can expect flowers until the first frosts in autumn. The various different plants flower at slightly different times of year, so you may not see some until next spring, whereas others will flower in the next few weeks.
What do I do at the end of the autumn?
If you’d like to keep your pot going, let the flowers form seed heads and give them a little shake to distribute the seeds in the pot. Then cut them back. Otherwise, you can simply cut them back and empty the pots on to the compost pile.