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Thank you Steve.

Hi! Last year our cottage garden meadow had loads of red poppies - which we expected would self seed for this year too.

However, this year we have plenty of daisies (see pictures) but no poppies.

So, I’m wondering why the poppies haven’t come back?

That’s great, thank you.

Excellent news, thank you both for your help and advice.

I would like to extend the meadow further, can you recommend a good cottage garden meadow mix please?

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Thank you Steve. I will take your advice.

I purchased the meadow mix from a specialist rather than a general meadow mix from a garden centre, so am hopeful it is a good quality mix.

I included some photos of the plants evident throughout the meadow amongst the grass, in case that helps.

Hi Tracey, thank you for your comments. I can see evidence of other plants/flowers in the lawn - but I’m concerned there’s too much grass? I’m unable to locate the meadow mix info now. It was recommended for a cottage garden meadow. There were a lot of poppies in the meadow, but there were some othe...

I dug up the lawn in our small orchard and planted a meadow (using a quality meadow mix). We had an amazing meadow throughout the summer last year. I cut the meadow right back in October and cleared the cuttings. However, the meadow looks like a normal grass lawn again now, is this normal and how ca...