It official, we did it, Ireland's first ever commercial crops of wildflower seeds were harvested today in Ireland.

Following 12 months of talks and trials,

35 years research and species conservation in the field

Design By Nature 'Strikes another gold for Ireland'

It official, we did it, Ireland's first ever commercial crops of wildflower seeds were harvested today and arrived into the drying barns of The Arvum Group's Seedtech and DLF wildflower trials for 6th generation Powers Seeds family, in Waterford.

The family and group have agreed to 3 years trials with our seed expertise and knowledge.

Our fleet of combines will be made available and we are going to share our production to get them up and running. We all have lots to learn and in time compete, yes I have to let go of my monopoly on native wildflowers. .

Julie Power , 6th generation, foresaw 'sustainability' as the way forward for her family business, she started selling our wildflower mixtures online and has developed a great nature friendly website.

Roy Power, her dad, contacted Sandro (tis me) of Design By Nature to teach him the secrets of commercial wildflower crops

Roy is already invested in sustainable crops such as mixed pasture, improved grasses and better arable crops, to name a few.

As soon as we met, I knew Roy could go along way to understanding our problems and help us, even if they are totally 'at seas' with perennial and poly-cultures of wildflowers and some day will most likely push me out of the markets

I also knew the great history of Ireland's most famous seed family, even seedier than I, and as soon as I got to meet the rest of the team, Rudi, Tim, Nigel, Denis and spent to-day harvesting with them, I realised I was among professionals and a beautiful old combine.

i am fully confident they can at least assist us to produce more and better crops even if the y choose not to do it themselves, as hand picked perennial agriculture with few inputs, is not what commercial industry can support unless for PR reasons. They is simply too little profit, even Coillte shut down its native tree nursery which at the time their turnover for that unit was double what ours was. I have seen it far too many times, great idea, but not enough money, but we do it to conserve species and protect Biodiversity, we just need a wage and profits are re-invested into conservation.

You all know me, I have thought just about everybody to grow wildflowers,

I always said the flowers speak for them selves, today they performed admirably offering high clean yields of annuals. They delivered when most needed.

Via the Powers family I can influence the genetic conservation of species at National and Eu level from a route that once resisted our 'political points' at the 1992 single market talks

when I failed to get other countries, wild species banned from being imported into Ireland, .

The EU have changed and now we are to get an exception, I just have to prove it,

I can make a difference with the best in the Irish seed industry behind us.

, and today as I said above, the Irish Seed Industry delivered its first ever wildflower crops, curtsy of misa..

funny how the seed industry and the DAFM, were the first to be involved many years ago, unknown to themselves, as it was so niche way back then,,so' in the smallest office,' in the basement, its was ignored, now it's all gone €.

and the big players, the main players, are the last to get involved.

(at the end of the product cycle)

It's pushing the bandwagon and only jumping on when there's momentum.

Yes, Others did all the hard work, No, we don't expect much reward, it's done for Nature, however we are pressing for serious species conservation and seed origin purity, I will be long gone by the time Ireland wakes up to the realities of serious genetic conservation.

What today's harvest means is our final aim and goal of our 30 year project ' the Cornflower Response' is well up, running and results are now flowing.

Bringing Native provenance Irish sourced collect and grown wildflowers in mass quantities at cheaper prices to the farmer, was always a main aim, where mass plantings will make a difference.

......your support down tru the ages has made us win Gold for Ireland.

For links search The Arvum Groups Seedtech and DLF

The National Wildflower Seed Collection

Ireland's Oldest Wildflower Business

We can't answer phone calls during summer harvest.

Wildflower Open Day: 2021, 

Cancelled, due to harvest demands, sorry

100% Native Sourced Irish Provenance
Wildflower Seeds. Tried & Tested, Quality Seed.
Native Sourced Irish Wildflower Seed Grower, 
Harvester,  Supplier, Processor, Mixer and Packer
DAFM Dept' of Agriculture Registered
Native Species Seed House No: IECS-44

THE 2021 Wildflower Seed Harvest is underway. 

We close for summer

We re-open for sales in September 2021

Opening Hours: 

10am to 12.30, Mon-Friday

We Close in Winter and Summer, to Process seed

We Open in Spring and Autumn to Sell seed

Always open to the hort' Trade? please email. 

Products Nationwide, Public and Trade

Gardeners and Professionals

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100% Irish Owned by Sandro Cafolla t/a 
Design By Nature - Www.wildflowers.ie  

3 year Warranty, terms apply
Supplying You with Seed that grows
Biodiversity in every Sack of Seed 

Link: Contact Us and 'GET A QUOTE' 

First for Nature:  Irelands first native seed producer. 
Established 1990, based in Carlow and Laois.

Handing On Our Heritage

Sales Ph:056 4442526.
Office sales team hours: 10 am to 12.30 pm

Six permanent employees, 10 growers.
Thousands of customers, and probably Ireland's
longest lasting social business, we use all profits 
in protecting biodiversity and saving species.

Your purchases keep us as the leading independent,
Non funded, Direct Action, plant species based conservation,
Socially orientated micro SME who has always spoken 
first for nature

Contact us and 'GET A QUOTE' 

Email. info@wildflowers.ie

If you send an email, please put our email address
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go into your trash or spam.

United Nations Decade on ecosystem-restoration 2021-2030

or try Link opens PDF download from EU 
Scientific proof that wildflowers protect nature
ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/pdf/
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Our Groundbreaking advice and Product Success is 
world famous
We are the world first business to established to protect nature

Cv: Representing Ireland Inc for Bord Bia. Brand Image.
Irish first advisor on Biodiversity to our Government.
Training Teagasc, the Farmer and the Irish Seed Industry
Saving Species growing Ecologies
Free advice & successful meadows to over 60,000 Irish Gardeners,
thousands of farmers, schools and tidy-towns.

Recent Customers incl: Most Co Councils, OPW, NPWS, Coillte, BnMona
Musgraves, Keelings, Intel, HSA, 

We supply advice and seeds for roadways plantings, land-caps
Solar and windfarms, extraction industries, 
Biodiversity for Social responsibility in Food, Pharma and IT sectors.

Saving nature, re-wilding Ireland, Helping you sow, Your Irish Garden, 

Our re-sellers are

www.mrmiddleton.com   www.theirishgardener.com

www.thegardenshop.ie   www.bloomingnative.ie

and ask for Irish native as many seed sellers import 

wildflowers and sell them alongside our native Irish seed

We wild source hand picked quality perennials 

Grown across Ireland on Irish Farms.

Totally Irish Provenance Certified Seed.

Tested by DAFM in Ireland and EU Legal.

Handing On Our Heritage

We are the FIRST and ONLY Irish Producer and Grower of 

Irish Native provenance wild and farm grown Flora.

We guarantee all seeds, if you control the weeds
We supply a seed cert and instructions with all packs
and a 3 year guarantee, with support". 

Wildflower seed mixtures are beautiful, 
educational, inspirational, great for wildlife 
and amazing to 'Bee' around. 

Wild flower meadow mixtures are far less 
work than lawns, 
Meadows save you lots of money and time.

  Great Irish Horticulture 

Please read 4 ESSENTIAL PAGES

Native Irish provenance flowers can survive your local climatic 

conditions and protect local wildlife.

Unlike non-native plants. when you buy native sourced Irish species 

they flower at the same time as the wildlife that visits the plants,

Imported wildflowers can bring plant disease and pests to Ireland.

Your purchases also supports jobs in Ireland. 
Our products are price competitive with EU. and UK  imports.

Our products cannot be compared to USA imported flora 

as they are totally different, if a mix contain larkspur, calendula, 

blue lupine, Californian poppy or many others such as flax, 

its not a native mix, even if it says wildflower, 

they are cultivated forms of wildflowers and not natives.

BEWARE OF BREXIT IMPOSTER POSERS IMPORTING!!! 

Even an Irish phone and address does not mean the firm 

or the WILDFLOWER SEED OR PLANT stock is Irish.

It MUST SAY: Provenance: Native Irish, Sourced in Ireland.

and Tested by DAFM, NOR SHOULD IT BE A CERTIFIED 

AGRI-FORBE as many are cheap CULTIVATED VARIETIES 

OF IMPORTED WILDFLOWER 'types and varieties'' called Forbes 

and are EU Certified for FOR FARM USE ONLY

Many Irish sellers, are importing flora, that they called wild. it's not.

WHAT WE DO: 

We are mainly a mail order business serving 
the trade and public with Seed mixtures. 
plants and individual species.

We are passionate about wildflowers.

No other business produces Irish provenance native flora

We grow acres of wild sourced seed, 

we travel miles to find sources we can collect from, 

These small wild seed lots are then propagated

and farm grown as crops 

Many of our species are first harvested by hand. 
Some crops we can take with combine harvesters,
brush harvesters and our own bespoke methods.

Then the seed-head, chaff and  seed is gathered, 
bundled, transported, to our seed house, where its
checked, dried, sorted, straw is removed, chaff is removed, 

After winnowing and sieving it's then  stored,
to be mixed and packed, all in Ireland, for Irish growers.

Wildflowers are older than the oldest antiques,

Brighter than the newest novelty

  Great Irish Horticulture 

(Dept' Agriculture) :Registered Native Sourced Irish 

Wildflower Seed Grower, Harvester, 

Supplier, Processor, Mixer and Packer 

DAFM Registered No: IECS-44

Vat No : IE 3656298P | Business Reg: 109182

EU Plant Health Pass: EUPP/IRL/DAFF/2684

IECS-44-EC rules & standards
EU-TTC=IRE-SEE-N-17-19
DBN-ConservationGrade
DBN-NativeProvenance

Measurement guide: 

hectare ha, 10,000 m2 or 2.471 acres
One international acre is defined as 4046 square metres. 

One old' acre equals about 4425 imperial 

(0.405 hectares) | 4,840 sq yards, | 43,560 sq feet