Brief Guide: Sow in early - late spring for a colourful summer/autumn display

Sowing Rate: Up to 5 grams per square metre

Cornfield Annuals: (of which)
40% Cereal Triticum 30% Corn Cockle Agrostemma githago
10% Corn Marigold Chrysanthemum segetum  10% Field Poppy Papaver rhoeas
5% Corn Chamomile Anthemis arvensis 5% Cornflower Centaurea cyanus

Additional Information:
These annuals flowered amongst spring sown cereal crops until the introduction of intensive farming. The wildflower seeds would have been disturbed and brought to the soils surface during cultivations prior to spring wheat, oats or barley being sown. The robust cereal crop supported the more delicate wildflower plants which bloomed during the summer and set seed before the crop was harvested. During harvest the wildflower seeds would drop to the ground which was then cultivated incorporating the next generation of seeds back into the topsoil where they remained dormant until once again disturbed by cultivation. This mixture should ideally be early - late spring sown on to a sunny, well prepared and weed free seedbed to emulate the aforementioned conditions.
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