Have you got a spot in the garden that's difficult to maintain or is just surplus to your requirements, then why not develop it as a wild flower area, or may be you just want to have some wild flowers in the garden.

 Once such areas have been established the only maintenance that will be required is to cut them down once or twice a year. There are two ways to develop such an area, one is to dig or rotavate and sow wild flower seeds in spring or the other method is to cut down existing vegetation in October and plant wildflower plants or plugs. The second method is more expensive as you will have to buy or grow the plants, but this method has the big advantage in controlling the balance of the species you want. You can find that sowing seeds directly on to prepared ground tends to let the more vigorous types predominate and the less vigorous species in the seed mix then may not establish.

 To establish wild flowers don't apply any fertilizer, they require poor fertility to establish and flourish. Select types that like the soil conditions and situation you are planting or sowing them in.