Please suggest flowers with room to bloom lower than the mower!

[Esther Knapicius]

had inquired to my favorite nursery last year, and they sent me a list of 20 types of hellebores they had. so besides that and another plant I want this spring, will venture up there to get them. they are about 45 mins from me, but good priced and huge huge huge place to find just about everything.

 

[alp]

I hope to see this one this year

Or something similar.

@MaryMary: how about Wendy's gold

Or a double Lady Elphinstone which you can get for about £5.

Imagine your lawn full of these... Wonderful!

 

[alp]

Esther: you're very lucky to have a supplier like that. Distinctive hellebores fetch a lot of money. a mature one could fetch £23 including p&p. Hope you can feast your eyes on these beauties, stock up and you can even try your hand pollinating them. Sheer fun. I will do it again this year. Can't wait. I have a pure white, greenish white, pinkish opening. I just need some warm sunshine to mess about with the pollen and stigma business!

 

[alp]

MaryMary Creeping phlox is one of the best

Tiny, but full of elegant details!

 

[MaryMary]

Snowdrops are emerging now and so are hellebores.

Creeping phlox is one of the best

Will these be able to live through a full summer of being mowed and still come back the next year?

 

[alp]

Actually, no. Only weeds have developed this defence mechanism to lower their flowers below the lawn mower level and stay intact while the lawnmower traverses the lawn.

I think it might be a good idea to leave a square for wildflowers to grow and plant some alpine plants or ground hugging flowers in an island.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Will these be able to live through a full summer of being mowed and still come back the next year

Snowdrops yes. Not the other two, you cannot mow them.

 

[alp]

It depends on when you mow the lawn. It might be beneficial for the snowdrop leaves to die off naturally so that the bulbs will be stronger next year. It really depends when you're going to mow the lawn.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

Ok, I have minimum 1,000. snowdrops on my lawn area. Originally planted maybe 200, 20 years ago. they come up early as they are meant to do. they flower, they die off, way before the lawn needs mowing. I mow where they have been I just don't collect the grass. They come back each year.