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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% Common Knapweed centaurea
nigra 10% Musk Mallow
malva moschata 8% Ladies
Bedstraw galium verum
8% Meadow Buttercup ranunculus
acris 8% Ribwort Plantain
plantago lanceolata
7% Betony betonica
officialis
7%
Ox-eye Daisy leucanthemum
vulgare 6%
Tufted Vetch vicia cracca
5% Wild Foxglove
digitalis purpurea
5% Hay Rattle
rhinanthus minor 5%
Yarrow achillea millefolium
5% Common Sorrel
rumex acetosa 5% Sheeps
Sorrel rumex acetosella
4% Ragged Robin lychnis flos cuculi
3% Birdsfoot trefoil lotus corniculatus
2% Cats
Ear hypochoeris redicata
1% Harebell
hypochoeris redicata
1% Mouse Ear
Hawkweed hieracium
pilosella
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:
For a real chance of successful wildflower meadow establishment on acidic soils then
only the most suitable species must be sown. Unlike other soil types where flower and grass species
may survive outside of their normal habitat, acidic soils are far less forgiving.
This is by no means the most flamboyant wildflower seed mixture but it will display reasonable
colour and together with the non-competitive companion grass will persist for many years. Most wildflower species take 6 - 12 months to
fully 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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