Curious about meadowscaping and looking for ideas for your front yard or backyard landscape? Here are a few better yard solutions featuring wildflowers, perennial plants, and flower bulbs from American Meadows!

Grow a Mix of Annual Wildflowers

Quick-blooming annual wildflowers are a favorite way to make meadowscaping easy. They will bloom just weeks after germination, and they typically flower all season until frost. In this photo, Mike "The Seed Man" Lizotte shows off his front yard wildflower meadow in Vermont! 

Tips To Get This Look

  • Annual wildflowers have a one-year lifecycle, so we often recommend planting fresh seeds each spring for the most bountiful blooms!
  • Favorite annual wildflowers blooming in this photo include pink Cosmos, orange and yellow Sulphur Cosmos, and blue Cornflowers. These flowers are easy-to-grow, long-blooming, and look beautiful in bouquets.
Cosmos Seeds
$9.95
Blue Cornflower or Bachelor Button Seeds
$7.95
Summer Long Blooms Pre-Planned Garden
$182.99 $243.99

Grow A Mix Of Perennial Wildflowers

When you want to make a large-scale, long-lasting improvement to your yard,perennial wildflowersare a terrific choice. These long-lived plants will return year after year, and they're also great for cut flowers! Perennials are a good choice for areas of your yard where you only want to prepare the soil once, rather than every year.

Tips To Get This Look

  • Perennials can take 1-3 years to fully mature and flower when grown from seed. Look for a flower mix that includes annuals for first-year blooms while perennials become established.
  • Favorite perennial wildflowers growing in our customer John's meadow shown in this photo includeEchinacea(also called Purple Coneflowers) and Shasta Daisies. 
Pale Coneflower Seeds
$4.95
Shasta Daisy Seeds
$15.96 $19.95

Plant A Low-Growing Wildflower Lawn

Grow more and mow less. You can replace some - or all - of your front yard or back yard with wildflowers! We know that many gardeners and homeowners would love the look and feel of a wildflower meadow, but want more of a "tame" neat and tidy appearance to maintain curb appeal. OurWildflower Lawn seed mixes, designed with low-growing flowers, are the perfect solution. 

Tips To Get This Look

  • Puppy not included - we're sorry!
  • Soapwort, Dwarf California Poppy, and Sweet Alyssum are just a few of the compact flowers blooming in our customer Amanda's yard, where she grows our Alternative Lawn Wildflower Seed Mix
Alternative Lawn Wildflower Seed Mix
$20.76 $25.95

Plant A Pre-Planned Garden

If you love the look of a well-designed perennial garden, but you're not sure where to start, we can help! Choose one of our Pre-Planned Gardens that comes complete with a Garden Layout Map to make planting easy. We planned - you plant - it's that simple!

Tips To Get This Look

  • Be sure to prepare your soil! Long-lived perennials are a great investment - better soil preparation means healthier plants.
  • Favorite flowers from our customer Kaylah's Summer Long Blooms Pre-Planned Garden include Echinacea, Phlox, Russian Sage, Black Eyed Susans, Daylilies, Sedum, and more!
Summer Long Blooms Pre-Planned Garden
$182.99 $243.99

Grow A Trend-Setting Tapestry Lawn

Tapestry lawns feature low-growing groundcover plants that provide a lush, colorful, and textured landscape. They're ideal no-mow lawn alternatives for low-traffic areas in your yard. Once established, they're very low maintenance and easy to care for. Choose pollinator-friendly plants to attract more bees and butterflies to your yard.

Tips To Get This Look

  • Top picks for tapestry lawns include Creeping Thyme, Creeping Phlox, and even edible plants like native Strawberry! 
  • To inspire your next planting project and make designing easier, check out our new Tapestry Lawn Plant Collections.
Creeping Thyme
$6.99 $9.32
Blue Moon Woodland Phlox
$6.99 $9.32

Make Space For Pets & Playtime

Meadowscaping is even a great solution for the areas in your yard where you want to walk, run, and play! When you grow a turf alternative, you can enjoy the lush look, soft feel, and durability of a lawn -- while also getting the added benefits of mowing less and seeing a mix of beautiful colors and textures in your yard. 

Tips To Get This Look

  • Can you tell we love dogs? Our customer Megane's Microclover lawn is one of the most popular pet-friendly lawn alternatives. It's soft and cushiony, and it's resistant to pet spotting. 
  • Our customer Mary grew our No Mow Flowering Lawn Seed Mix, much to the delight of the neighbors, who stopped to take a photo of their beautiful, low-maintenance lawn.  
Microclover Seed
$10.98 $12.95
No Mow Flowering Lawn Seed Mix
$124.95
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