This year I’ve had much more success with our wildflower area in Creiddylad’s garden. The first year it was mainly a monoculture of red campion and the second year of ox-eye daisies. This year the ox-eye daises haven’t dominated so much and the other species have had more opportunity for growth. Most of the native wildflowers I have grown from seed. The betony and common agrimony were gifts from an ecology colleague. The nectar-rich geranium cultivars I bought from Let’s Grow Preston.

This is a list of some of the wildflowers that have grown in our wildflower area this year ~

Ox-Eye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
Ragged Robin (Silene flos-cuculi)
Red Campion (Silene dioica)
Foxglove (Digitalis sp.)
Poppy (Papaver sp.)
Meadow Cranesbill (Geranium pratense)
Betony (Betonica officinalis)
Common Agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria)
Geranium ‘Rozanne’
Geranium ‘Elworthy Eyecatcher’
Michaelmas Daisy (Aster sp.)

In terms of monastic gardening we were self-sufficient in lettuce and spinach and herbs for most of the summer and the bees enjoyed the lavender with sightings of many different species of bees and flies.

The rhubarb has also done well providing plenty of rhubarb goo.