complete newbie needs some advice about getting involved!

[rherte39]

wow what a strange coincidence!

I was out walking the dog last night, when I passed a particularly well-known monument in my local area, that is covered in grass, and thought to myself "wouldn't that look great in the summer if it was covered in colourful flowers - maybe one night I'll come back and cover it in plant seeds when no-one is around!"

and then would you believe it, I come across an article in yahoo news this morning, about the Guerrilla gardening organisation!!

It must be fate, and someone must want me to do it!   


Now I have to say I am a complete novice when it comes to gardening!!  I know absolutely nothing at all!

All I know is that flowers are pretty and smell nice, and seeing them generally brightens up your day!

ok so I need some advice!!

What I'd like to do is get a batch of seeds for different colours of flowers.....then mix them all up together.....then scatter them all over the grass monument in the hope that come summer time it will blossom into a beautiful thing! 


First question......would this work? can you mix flower seeds randomly?

Second question.... if it will work, can you recommend some nice colourful flower/seeds I can mix together.....think blue, yellow, red, orance, purple flowers/seeds all mixed together.

Third question..... the idea would be to literally chuck them all over the monument and cover it..... I'm hoping they will still grow if I did this, and I don't need to dig up soil?? (the momument is pretty big, so would take me forever if I had to do that!!)

Fourth question.... do birds eat flower seeds? if so, any way of preventing them feasting on them before they get to blossom?

Fifth question....any good places you'd recommend to buy them? B&Q? - I'm not exactly loaded, so the cheaper the better!!


any help much appreciated :-)

cheers

[katapult]

Hello...i'm new to this forum and I'd like to get involved in some stuff, but I know a bit about gardening so I may be able to help.

If the monument is covered in grass this may well impede any scattered seeds, even if you seedbombed it (seeds in a mix of loam/ soil etc).  Wild flowers often get outcompeted by grass.  Birds and mice etc will eat them.....

My first thought is forget seeds for now and think bulbs.  In autumn you can pick up some bulbs - go for species not cultivars - and sneak out with a trowel or even better a bulb-planter, and pop them in for next spring. 

How often is it mowed?  Is it looked after by the council much?

Hope I've been some help