{"id":28113,"date":"2016-10-01T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ask-alys-fowler-why-arent-my-wildflowers-blooming\/"},"modified":"2016-10-01T17:10:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T10:10:59","slug":"ask-alys-fowler-why-arent-my-wildflowers-blooming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ask-alys-fowler-why-arent-my-wildflowers-blooming\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Alys Fowler: why aren\u2019t my wildflowers blooming?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWhat\u2019s up with my poppies and cornflowers? Alys Fowler has the answer Last year, I sowed my garden with meadow wildflower perennials, and by summer there was an impressive display of corncockles, harebells, poppies, lupins and cornflowers. In October they were cut and the area left. This year not a single bloom has appeared. What happened?It sounds as if the mix was more annual than perennial: poppies, corncockles and cornflowers are a combination of annuals and biennials that need open ground to germinate well. I wonder if they were outcompeted for ground by the perennials. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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