We may not have Monty Don, but we do have Monty the DOG helping to show you how to grow your own mini wildflower meadow in a container. 🌼 It’s such a simple way to help feed your local bumblebees and no gardening experience is needed! Just follow our step-by-step instructions.
For more quick, simple ideas to get bumblebees buzzing, check out our FREE Bee the Change resources 👉 https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/beethechange/
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Great video, looked outside for the bird before I cottoned on! Will give it a try😁.
Great video but I had to watch it twice as the first time around I was too busy watching that adorable dog.
Loved the video can I ask when is the best time to sow the seeds
https://youtu.be/qosK_5HJ3QM
Thank you !!!
the dog and the birds singing, awesome!
Just what I needed. Cheers Emily.
Wish I could find pictures or videos to show the germination process. I started mine in pa last Thurs and they are already sprouting. Pretty remarkable. My zinnias aren't showing up yet. I just would like to know what it should look like as it progresses. Can't find anything. The top of my little plants have like white bulbs appearing. I used wildflower pollinator seeds. It's almost like dust. But wow it works. Really wish I could find pictures or videos to show the process.
Will this wildflowers grow again in same pot or next time I will need new seeds?
Your dog is so interested🤣
Interesting video thanks. What breed is monty? He's adorable
Just used your method to plant wildflower seeds into a terracotta pot!
@bumblebee trust – great video! By the way would you just leave the soil exposed or would you be putting mulch on top to retain the moisture and also prevent other airborne seeds from getting in? Unless attracting other wild seeds and weeds is part of this, just for my own horticultural education 🙂 many thanks
I'm confused I thought native wildflowers need nutrient light non fertile soil? Surely compost very nutrient rich and fertile and what native wildflowers dont want?
I am doing my garden wildlife friendly I needed this thank you
Sorry me again. If you want your wildflowers in pots to flower summer 2023 when is best to plant them autumn 2022 or spring 2023 or will both options flower in summer?
That wild bird had a lot to say!
Your dog is paying very good attention.
Do you have a video or picture of the final outcome please?
The sound of the birds is magical ❤️
Lovely video and tutorial. I've got some seeds from the Bee Square project in Hazlemere Bucks and will plant them in pots next spring. I'm guessing they could go in the same pots my daffs and tulips are in. Thanks again 😊
When would you suggest cutting back the wildflowers in the pots?
I'm gonna start looking in the local car boot sales and see if I can get some pots for the lovely bumbles. Our flat's shared garden is too shallow to actually plant anything in but definitely can put pots on it to grow some flowers in. It'll bee so lovely! 😀
I will try this , just need this spring to really begin ( much too cold now). Thanks
It's worth protecting with mesh to prevent the blackbirds throwing it all out! A damp pot is a beacon to them, especially in dry conditions!
Thanks for your works. Keep it up.
Thank you! Would these flowers handle a bit of shade?
I'm Indonesian and new in the UK and my daughter got wildflower seeds today from school. I have no idea how to plant. Thank you for making this video. Now i know what to do. ❤
Didn’t think it possible in a pot 🤷♀️ thanks for the idea 👍
End result please????
When is the best month or season to plant them? And do they do well in hit countries like egypt
I love how your dog is interested in what you’re doing
What is the dogs problem? I think he buried a bone in the pot before the pot was appropriated for wild flower cultivation.