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Brief Guide:
Sow mid spring to late summer into
a well prepared seedbed
Sowing Rate:
5- 10 grams per square metre
(20.00 kg per acre)
75% Perennial Grass Seeds
(of which)
35% certified
Hard Fescue
festuca ovina
20% certified Crested Dogstail
cynosurus cristatus
20% certified Fine Fescue
festuca rubra litoralis
10% certified Smooth Stalked Meadowgrass
poa pratensis
10% certified Smaller Catstail
phleum pratense bertolonii
5% certified Bentgrass
agrostis capillaris
20% Native Perennial Wildflower
Seeds (of which)
10% Field Scabious
knautia arvensis 8.5%
Meadow Buttercup ranunculus acris
7.5% Kidney Vetch anthyllis
vulneraria 7.5% Greater Knapweed
centaurea scabiosa
7.5% Birdsfoot trefoil
lotus corniculatus
7.5% Salad Burnet
poterium sanguisorba
5% Small Scabious
scabiosa columbaria
5%
Tufted Vetch vicia cracca
5%
Hoary Plantain plantago media
5%
Ladies Bedstraw galium verum
5% Dropwort filipendula vulgaris
5% Wild Carrot rdaucus carota
4% Yarrow
achillea millefolium
3% Ox-eye Daisy leucanthemum
vulgare 2.5% Common
Restharrow onionis
repens 2.5% Cowslip
primula veris
2.5% Self Heal
Prunella vugaris 2%
Clustered Bellflower
campanula glomerata
2% Wild Basil
Clinopodium vulgare
2% Wild Margoram
origanum vulgare 1%
Greater Hawkbit
leontodon hispidus
5% Native Annual Wildflower
Seeds (of which)
40%
Corn Cockle
Agrostemma githago
20%
Corn Marigold
Chrysanthemum segetum
20%
Field Poppy
Papaver rhoeas
10%
Corn Chamomile
Anthemis arvensis
10% Cornflower
Centaurea cyanus
Additional Information:
Neutral and lower ph (alkaline)
soil types can produce some of the best wildflower meadows. This is usually due
to the below average mineral and nutrient content of limestone and chalk based soils
preventing the companion grass from ever becoming dominant. The wildflowers in this
mixture are highly suited to free draining and warmer ground. Most of these species
flower early in the year through to late summer before the onset of cooler, late
autumn weather. Most wildflower meadow species take 6 - 12 months to establish before
flowering so we have included 5% native annuals for a little first year colour.
For further information on
Wildflowers
see our Grass Matters
site
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