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Meet Mary Reynolds, the plant whisperer who dared to be wild

Wild Flowers: Nature's own to garden grown by Carol Klein (Hardback, 2013)

Wild plants are an important component of biodiversity

This is how biodiversity can become depleted. From a human perspective, plentiful biodiversity in a farming landscape ensures that food grown is of the highest quality. Livestock that feed on flower-rich pastures produce milk and meat with a higher nutrient content that those that feed on pastures devoid of flowers.

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It may be this sort of confusion that we need more of. And then there is the exuberant release of wildly blooming branches and top heavy perennials. Vines climb through Rose of Sharon and scamper onto a Dogwood tree in our garden. Nature's own to garden grown, Klein, Carol, New Book. Nature's own to garden grown Product Category: Joyful December 16, Sunday Dinner: Take a look at our Returning an item help page for more details.

The variety of insects that the many different wild plants attract and sustain provide a free and natural pest-control for farm crops so it is worth farmers' while to maintain a flower-rich margin around their fields. Also contact with the natural environment is good for human health and wellbeing!

The best way to protect and save wild plants is by learning how to identify them, and there are now plenty of books and online resources that can help the learner.

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Use these resources whilst also visiting the places where you can view the plants themselves. Below are some of the resources available. Check out our section on Nature Reference Books for wild flowers etc. Click here for Irish Wild Flowers. Click here for the Lichens of Ireland Project.

Click here for Irish Lichens. Click here for Woodland Plants. Francis of Assisi, Intrinsic Value of Wild Plants First of all, wild plants are God's creation, and therefore have intrinsic value. A wildflower growing on Jamestown Island.

Meet Mary Reynolds, the plant whisperer who dared to be wild

Prickly pear cactus growing in a field beside the Colonial Parkway with assorted grasses and Aliums. This is still fashionable in American gardens today. But it is a high maintenance and sterile way to garden. White clover growing with purple milk vetch and other wild flowers and grasses on the bank of a pond along the Colonial Parkway near Yorktown, Virginia. There are some plants which definitely are not welcome in our garden, or are welcome in only certain zones of it.

Do you see the tiny cluster of grapes which are already growing? Grapes grow wild in our area, but many pull the vines, considering them weeds.

But in general, I prefer allowing plants to grow together in communities, weaving together above and below the soil, and over the expanse of time throughout a gardening year. Perennial geranium and Vinca cover the ground of this bed of roses. A simple example would be interplanting peonies with daffodils. As the daffodils fade, the peonies are taking center stage. Another example is allowing Clematis vines to grow through roses; or to plant ivy beneath ferns.

Wild Flowers: Nature's own to garden grown by Carol Klein (Hardback, 2013)

Japanese Painted Fern emerges around spend daffodils. Columbine, Vinca, apple mint and German Iris complete the bed beneath some large shrubs. Honeysuckle and wild blackberries are both important food sources for wildlife. The blackberries and honeysuckle are scampering over and through a collection of small trees and flowering shrubs on the edge of a wooded area.

All provide shelter to birds. The aroma of this stand of wildflowers is indescribably sweet. When planning your plantings, why not increase the diversity and the complexity of your pot or bed and see what beautiful associations develop? Although poison ivy is a beautiful vine and valuable to wildlife, our gardens are created for our own health and pleasure. So we will continue to snip these poisonous vines at the base whenever we find them. But what about honeysuckle?

Wild plants are an important component of biodiversity

Can you tolerate wild violets in the lawn? Honeysuckle blooming on Ligustrum shrubs, now as tall of trees, on one border of our garden. Three varieties of Geranium fill this pot in an area of full sun.

Sedum spills across the front lip of the pot. A bright Coleus grows along the back edge, and Moonflower vines climb the trellis. I like planting several plants in a relatively big pot; allowing room for all to grow, but for them to grow together. Geraniums, Coleus, Caladium, and Lamium fill this new hypertufa pot.

This photo was taken the same evening the pot was planted. It will look much better and fuller in a few weeks. This is a better way to keep the plants hydrated and the temperature of the soil moderated from extremes of hot and cold, anyway. The Vinca is ubiquitous in our garden, and serves an important function as a ground cover which also blooms from time to time.

The grasses growing along the edge get pulled every few weeks to keep them in control. Choose a palette of plants, and then work out a scheme for combining a repetitive pattern of these six or ten plants over and again as you plant the bed.

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Include plants of different heights, growth habits, seasons of bloom, colors and textures. So long as you choose plants with similiar needs for light, moisture, and food this can work in countless variations. A wild area between a parking lot and College Creek. Notice the grape vines growing across a young oak tree. Bamboo has emerged and will fill this area if left alone. If one is getting too aggressive and its neighbors are suffering, then you must separate, prune, or sacrifice one or another of them.

Planting garlic or onions among flowers has proven effective in keeping deer and rabbits away from my tasty flowering plants.

Wild Flowers: Nature's Own to Garden Grown

Planting deep rooted herbs such as Comfrey, Angelica , and Parsley near other plants brings minerals from deep in the soil to the surface for use by other plants. Perennial geranium growing here among some Comfrey. Planting peas and members of the pea family in flower or vegetable beds increases the nitrogen content of the soil where they grow, because their roots fix nitrogen from the air into the soil. Purple milk vetch is one of the hundreds of members of the pea family. Planting Clematis vines among perennials or roses helps the Clematis grow by shading and cooling their roots.