Making Wildflower Meadows

by Pam Lewis, Miriam Rothschild (Preface)

Meadow-making helps preserve our fragile environment from further decline but it requires knowledge and skill to create a successful meadow. In this timely book, Pam Lewis's passion for traditional pasture management and the preservation of our native species of plants and her extensive meadow-making experience, are translated into an easy-to-read, informative and highly practical text on creating and preserving wildflower meadows – from the smallest garden meadow to large-scale field projects.

Genres: Nonfiction, Gardening

160 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2003

Reviews

[Brandon Carper · Rating 4 out of 5]

I bought this looking for advice on maintaining my wildflower meadow in the U.S., based on a review that said the book would be applicable for both the U.S. and U.K. Unfortunately it wasn't. The book is mostly about how to maintain a specific type of meadow in the U.K. called a hay meadow. We have very few similar wildflowers, and the author's projects involved much more effort than I'm able to commit (including importing 30 tons of chalk from a local quarry). That said, the author appears very passionate and knowledgeable, so I just read it as if it were in the Walden genre.

[Carmen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent source of how to build a meadow from the "ground up". The author describes how she and her husband converted a 5 acre site to a wildflower meadow. She rally helps by saying the mistakes she made, what went well, what she would do differently.