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I imagine you're not fond of digging beds and weeding, which is required to start a wildflower garden from seed. My guess is that you might choose some very hardy and invasive beauties and plant plants instead of seeds. Since you're on the edge of a woods, you may have to choose some that will tolerate some shade. What's your soil like?

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Hello BFVISION,

I watched a show on HGTV, they suggested burning the original site in a controled burn, to burn up any viable weed seeds on the dried flower stalks or top of the ground...(usually fall time I thought)
Then spread reasonably thick layers of wildflower seeds from it's container...

~~~~Some seeds come in a container with shredded up newspaper, which not only acts as a mulch to choke out any emerging weeds, *(gives the new seeds a head start because you block out the sun to those weed seeds.)
And it also acts as a agent that keeps the seeds moist *(which is very important to keep the seeds watered properly)

Does that sound reasonable to do...??

The only thing is they say to pick the seeds that are for your area, or else you may only get them for one season, because the aggressive local weed seeds will take over...

Here's a URL, to visit, about doing the seeds.
And a couple of places to visit. To get some seeds.Seed Mixes / Info on places to get seeds

Have you thought of which plants you wanted?
Or to look into the Northeast seeds???

Weezie

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You are totally correct about perennial vinca. I have that stuff in my yard and it takes over fast. I'm constantly pulling it up. I didn't realize it had no value to wild life though. You're also right about fires. Our yard man set fire to a pile of leaves in our field, dug a trench around it, got a permit, left it for a few minutes and it burned out of control in a few minutes. A man was here painting our barn and called the fire depeartment or who knows what would have happened. It burned up to the road and peeled the top off the road.

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