@MitchP, it's not the busyness in itself that's the issue, but more that your shot is lacking a visual path through the image, and is a bit unbalanced.
A nice foreground anchor can work really well. I've seen a few shots with wildflowers where the photographer has positioned themselves with one, or a few flowers, very close to the camera which increases their size and prominance in the image. This can also help as wildflowers tend to be small so helps with visual impact. It's harder to pull off than it sounds, but if you get the proportions right, it can be very effective.
Paths, roads, streams, and the like can often be used to draw the eye and keep it moving in a kind of zigzag pattern. Pepper in a few anchors, like a building, some trees, bushes at the zigzag points, then going into the distance is classical landscape shapes, and really help to keep the eye moving and provide a sense of depth.
