How to maintain a wildflower meadow...With Yellow Rattle

This video explains how to improve your wildflower meadow by using Yellow Rattle. I explain from my own experiences about collecting Yellow Rattle seeds, cutting the meadow, raking back, and how to sow the seeds.
I have worked with the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust on cutting, maintaining and sowing Yellow Rattle seeds at my local nature reserve's wildflower meadow where I am the wildlife field officer.
Yellow Rattle is now well established in my own garden wildflower meadow as well as Raw Nook NR by using this tried and tested method.
I also explain how the meadow's biodiversity will improve as more wildflowers start to flourish. More Bees, butterflies, moths and other insects will then be attracted to your wildlife garden

[@JemBowdenWatercolour]

Great video, thank you. Great idea re. hedgetrimmer too! I've successfully grown Yello Rattle in my lawn last year, then spread seed again last Autumn (in case they didn't self-seed very well) and now I have absolutely millions beginning to come up right now! My question, which I cannot find an answer to anywhere, is What wildflower seeds to try to establish next? What grows well once Yellow Rattle is well established and the grass is well reduced? Currently it looks like I have a thick 'lawn'' of purely yellow rattle seedlings, in large areas.
Thank you for any ideas. What will you be doing? I have actually sprinked a selection of 'wildflower mix' in with last year's YR seeds so maybe something else will come up. If anything I'm a bit concerned that the dominance of YR will be hard for anything else to compete with! Thanks and all the best.

[@urbanwildlifetips]

Hi, Thank you so much for your comments they are appreciated.
What I do when I have a large patch of Yellow Rattle growing is to take some YR out, say from the middle and plant small established wildflowers. The wildflowers then grow as they have no real competition from grasses and unaffected by the YR. I have never tried using windflower seeds but it might work if the YR is just sprouting and the wildflower seeds have time to germinate.
Good luck and hope this helps
Kind regards