Sowing and planting wildflowers

Hi Andrea - it really depends upon what sort of wildflowers you are planting and how vigorous the grass is you want to plant into. Bare in mind that most wildflowers prefer very poor soil that does not support vigorous grass species, as they simply can't compete. A friend of mine did some experimenting and found the ones that survived in 'uncut lawn grass' had to have a an area of grass cleared from around them - I think he used a bit of gravel around the bases of hte plants to supress the grass. Basically, wildflowers are not as easy an option as they might first seem! Hope this helps - I'm sure others will have comments to add. :-)

Sid right Andrea they can be difficult to establish and think of all the greedy unwanted weeds that would like to dominate these have to be individually removed. Do you know if you already have wildflowers growing ? People often assume they will grow in long grass confusing a wild flower lawn with a meadow,
you still need to cut grass albeit with mower on its highest setting.
Think your on right lines to introduce them as they establish will self seed.gravel used around collar of plant to stop it rotting off.
now would normally be the right time but still getting frosts so would wait a while.Wild flower lawns contain low growing plants its the meadows that contain wild poppies foxgloves cornflower etc.

In addition to the wisdom above, I have read that Yellow Rattle is a good plant to include as it acts as a parasite on the grass, thus weakening it and giving the other plants a better chance of competing.

thanks for the advice.