Wildflowers in containers?

[kazzz1969]

Good morning all.

I have a small cottage garden and have always tried planting with wildlife in mind. A majority of my plants grow quite tall and I am quickly running out of planting space. Smaller plants tend suffer in my garden because they get over shadowed by the larger plants.

I do have a concrete area at the side of my house and my question is..

Would wildflowers grow quite happily in containers?
Plants I have in mind are Ladies Bedstraw, Birds Foot Trefoil, various Scabious, Sheeps Sorrel etc

I would appreciate any suggestions for wildflowers that could happily be grown in containers.

Thank you.

[Hedge Witch]

I have Scabious in a container because, like you, I'm running out of space. It came in a wildflower seed mix for butterflies, and all the flowers are doing well, even though I keep forgetting to water them! I'm fairly sure the Lady's Bedstraw would be OK, and possibly the others too.

[kazzz1969]

Thank you Hedge Witch

[metalfish]

Yes, they'll all grow happily in containers, I worked on a wildflower farm a while back, we grew'm as crops in the field for seed suuply and pretty much all of them (200+ species) grew fine in the pots that we sold in the nursery.

We grew them in 'general' compost and trewated them just as you would any other plant.

We only had a problem with a few but they tended to be the seaside/ mountain/ bog specialist plants so just go for it & you'll love the results

[kazzz1969]

Thank you, there are some wonderful, 'delicate' looking wildflowers that I would love to have in my garden. There is certainly no harm in trying to grow them.