Being cooped up, I've had much more time this year to spend time out doors. This has allowed me the chance to really study what actually grows well here. After a huge fail of getting pollinator and caterpiller attractive plants to grow from nursery stock last year, I have taken to digging up volunteer plants from places where they will get choked out or mowed to the "garden" area, comprised of barely worked soil in full sun. So far, these transplants are thriving MUCH better than store bought stock or seed. Time will tell...

That's relaxing. I like wild gardening with wild fruits and veggies. The mice, insects, snakes and birds also like it. With a little bit of manure from healthy people, the jungle and bush food becomes like paradise. Grasshoppers are on my menu. But I have to be careful with bigots and nasty health regulations.

Lovely blossom meadows! Turf is a waste of space and resources.

My garden is on the lowest point in our small community and any seed washes down during heavy thunder storms . During hurricanes my garden is flooded with any thing that floats in with the tide . Mulch is my only hope .

A meadow is just an unshorn lawn. I like your style.

Oh, I don't know about all English gardens being prim and proper. I think of cottage garden charm as requiring an asymetrical and overgrown look, but anyway, YAY! to wild gardening!

Found them. Here are a few photos from my only experiement with making wild flower meadow back in 2009. Maybe I was being too fussy in not wanting the native weeds from overlayering the wild flowers I'd seeded? I found this meadow the only thing I had time for in the garden at that time.

One thing for sure it certainly takes less work. Nature is always trying to go wild (as I have many times experienced).

I'd be afraid of leveling everything with the weed wacker. I do like the look of a more wild growing garden and yours is very attractive. I also love your irises. Do you know what their named?

Reminds me of the meadow garden at Great Dixter. I’m also fond of a garden where nature seems to be alive and well if not completely victorious. My one attempt at making a meadow garden was all I did for a couple years. It was very laborious in my Mediterranean garden. I’ve since switched with defined and raised beds with pg pathways since it uses less water and limits the area where I have to keep out weeds.

Lovely, my style of gardening too. You seem though to be weeks ahead of us in this part of the UK, the Phlox are not even in bud yet here.