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By KAREN C. WILSON
People often think of wildflowers as suited only to rolling meadows and spacious yards, as if they’ll thrive only in open expanses and not in small yards. Sure enough, when amateur gardeners try to plant them in poor soil in a shady corner of the garden — the “meadow in a can" fails to llourish.
Misleading seed company advertising that suggests instant miracles is partly to blame:
The truth is that wildflowers will grow in a small space. But they aren’t a quick solution to a problem spot. Even wildllowers need a nourishing environment to grow. La/.y gardeners who scatter the seeds to the wind and expect instant gratification are bound to be disappointed.
Although shake-and-scatter wildllower mixtures have proliferated faster than weeds in a Bermuda lawn, sales have begun to slide in the last couple of years, perhaps an indication of consumers’ disappointment with unsuccessful results. .
This slide followed a surge in popularity that saw demand for wildllowers double in live years. By the number of homeowners planting wild Powers had grow n to 4.X million, according to a survey by the National Gardening Association.
t oday, the popular shake-and-scatter
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