Description
Mix of annual and perennial, agricultural and native wildflowers for most types of soils. Ideal for difficult areas which might have had a weed problem. The agricultural seeds in this mix will help to crowd out weeds for a few years, and will gradually die away giving the wildflowers room to persist. Perennial weeds such as dock, couch grass, spear thistle etc must be removed before sowing. Sow into well scarified lawns or weed-free soil. If sowing into bare soil you could sow at a ratio of 50:50 with native Wild grass seed. This mix has an organically produced seed content of 80%. The remaining native wildflower seed is either organic or guaranteed untreated.
Sowing rate 3g/m2; 12Kg/acre. Sow ideally in Autumn, or early Spring, when there is more chance of rain to aid germination.
We advise you do not cut this crop until September, allowing most of the wildflowers to set seed. The agricultural seed will only persist for a few years (and in the early years will suppress weeds), after they begin to fade and after cutting, it would be possible to over-sow with a little (non-aggressive) native wild grasses, and some of the saved seed from the wildflowers which you want mare of. The successful wildflowers will also self-sow and colonies can become established.
Ratio of agricultural seed is 83.8%: to native wildflower seed: 16.2%
Native Wildflowers in the mix:
Yarrow, Achillea millefolium
Common Knapweed, Centaurea nigra
Greater Knapweed, Centaurea scabiosa
Wild carrot, Daucus carota
Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea
Viper’s Buglos, Echium vulgare
Hemp Agrimony, Eupatorium cannabinum
Field Scabious Knautia arvensis
Motherwort, Leonurus cardiaca
Oxe-eye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare
Bird’s-foot Trefoil, Lotus corniculatus
Purple Loose-strife, Lythrum salicaria
Musk Mallow, Malva moschata
Wild Oregano Origanum vulgare
Selfheal, Prunella vulgaris
Goldenrod, Solidago virgaurea
Devil’s-bit Scabious Succisa pratensis
Dark Mullein Verbascum nigrum
Agricultural varieties in the mix, 80% ORGANIC, (will not persist beyond a few years):
Borage, Borago officinalis
Chicory, Cichorium intybus
Buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum
Sunflowers, Helianthus annuus
Sweet Clover, Melilotus officinalis
Sainfoin, Onobrychis viciifolia
Phacelia, Phacelia tanacetifolia
Red Clover, Trifolium pratense
White Clover, Trifolium repens
