Going wild overcastle flowers

THE wildflowers at Arundel Castle are exciting our visitors and causing a buzz with our Bumble bees and Honey bees. When it comes to planting wildflower areas you can either choose perennials or annuals.

You don’t have to have a large meadow to grow your own wildflowers; we have used perennials in the landscape of the castle grounds and annuals in our walled garden which are looking beautiful, and the annuals should continue to flower through to October.

Last year the perennial wildflowers were sourced through a diversifying farmer in North Hampshire who grows the wildflowers in the form of special wildflower turf, which can be used in a number of different ways, to our delight this year we have an even more exciting amount of perennial wildflowers as they have self-seeded well, even after our harsh winter.