Underplanting my rose garden with wild flowers

I had a bit of a eureka moment today and want to do something unusual : roses underplanted with wildflowers/ plants. I dont know if it will work yet but we will see.
I want to do this to teach my daughter about nature and help the bees as I have only seen four this year :(
I would love to hear your suggestions I have aqualegia ferns bluebells forget me nots which I let run rampant.
My garden border is long and seperated into rose colour sections by clipped box hedge bit suprisingly the wild plamts that have moved in look stunning.
If u know a plant is toxic can u let me know as I have a three yr old

 

Heres one of the beauties that self seeded in my garden

 

There's quite a few websites that specialise in wildflowers. Categorized into tall, small, shady, full sun etc. And they sell by grams/m2.

I picked up a load of packets of wildflowers on the weekend at a poundshop/cheapo shop. I think it was The Range or b&m. 50p a packet, so I got six!

 

I think if you can get any wildflowers in anywhere it's a bonus, especially with the way pollinators are declining. I have lost my wildflower patch at the moment, but have a couple of ideas where it can go to. I want to dig a border next to the new path past the veg beds about 18 inches wide by 6 foot and also want to leave part of the bottom lawn and grow perennials in plugs to plant next year. I have never seen roses under planted with wild flowers so would be interested to see how it goes.

Rusty

 

I hope it will be nice any websites in particular?

 

I couldn't recommend any in particular but I just googled it and plenty came up:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=w...me.0.0l4j62l2.3427j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

thanks, well i am going to try this

BSB 100%: Bees and Butterfly Wildflowers​

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• Bright and beautiful native wildflowers, attractive to Bees and Butterflies, whilst creating a visually attractive meadow.
• Carefully formulated to include 20 species from the Royal Horticultural Society "Perfect For Pollinators" list .
• Contains; 23 native wildflower species plus Borage, Sainfoin and Dwarf Sunflower to encourage a wide range of pollinating insects and other wildlife.
• Sowing Rate: 3 gms per sq/m (1kg sows 300 sq/m, 12kg sows 1 acre)
• Mixture contents and information
  (Image taken in August, from a March sowing)

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• 100 gms - £19.00
• 250 gms - £38.00
• 1 Kg - £125.00

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I'm always surprised how cheap wildflower seed is.

 

Well the seed arrived this morn and i only ordered it yest lunchtime. I had prepared the soil so sown it this morn. I never manage to grow anything when i sow direct so i hope wild flowers will be different.

 

You can check Here for poisonous plants

 

SHould I be seeing any seedlings yet please?

 

it does take a while to be honest. I find it hard to distinguish if they are weed seedlings or not as well. Just keep em watered and they should come through.

 

any luck yet?

 

nothing yet :/ but I am hoping there's something lurking under the roses

 

I sowed some wild flower seeds in a new raised bed I created at the beginning of June; later than the 1st of the month though. They are all growing nicely and some are just about to flower.

I think (and I do hope I'm wrong) if you can't see any signs of growth by now, you probably won't.