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Native Irish Wildflower Products and Services.
Plant Price List,
Wildflower Mixtures with added GRASS.
Price list (not recommended unless for specific reasons,
as grass grows too quick on Irish soils)
Wildflower Seed Mixtures without grass seed.
If ordering any of the above with grass seed, the wildflower seed element/ percentage is the
same.
1.5 gram of wildflower seed is the ideal rate,
and that which we quote for.
1g WF seed on totally weed free, stale seed bedded
for more than 6 'growing season' months. ie No unwanted weeds, what so ever.
Professional rate large projects. 2
grams WF seed per square meter on difficult sites, vegetated or with bare
soil and some natural colonising of weeds 3
grams WF seed per square meter on extreme sites, fully vegetated or without
natural colonising.
With grass seed add to above rates there are many options. Best get our advice
for difficult situations. Our
Native Irish Grass is added at either 000.00025g, 000.0005, 000.00075, up to
1gram, for native Irish produce fine meadow grasses, these only appear as meadow
cover in the 4th year. sown in Y1. a few plants set seed in Y2, Y3 they
grow, Y4 the meadow is green, this method allows the wildflower to
germinate over 3 full year before the grass takes over and a real meadow forms.
By then there should be enough woody rooted species Species competing with grass
to reduce the fertility. Yellow rattle and others such species will also greatly
keep grass growth in check, allowing the long term seedlings generated in the
flora to establish without the competition from to much grass growth, Our method
solves a particular Irish wildflower growers problem. - wet summers lush grass,
warm winters lush grass. Commercial
grasses, not wild certified seed for some reason can be sown at very high rates
and if managed skillfully will produce great meadows, If not the high rates
quickly smother the grasses. So how do high rates of grass seed in wildflower
allow a wildflower meadow to develop. Simply put, the more topping of grass
growth, when the grass is removed from the site, reduces fertility, and controls
certain weed species, more so on dry soil that damper soil types. This combined
soil fertility drop and less weeds, gives wildflowers a chance, as i say,
provided they are well managed and attended to until well established.. Commercial
grass is sown at very high rates of 10%, 20%, 30%, 50%, and even as per in
the Uk and cheapest seed 80% grass with 20% flora
designed to reduce the price per kilo. It takes all kinds!
What ever, DO NOT reduce the amount of wildflower seed required. If you need
1 kilo of wildflower seed
and order IT WITH 50% grass you get 2 kilos (blended 1KG of wildflower and
1 kg of grass) 2 kg in total. GRASS SEED is always added extra to the
sites wildflower requirement.
Other relevant pages:
Sales
/ Wildflower Seed mixtures:
DBN produce, flora rich seed mixtures to grow meadows with between
16 and 30 species that are colourful and attract wildlife.
We have low cost mixtures for large areas, Shade or Hedgerow,
Wetland, or marsh, many species are Wildlife attracting.
Our native floras are specifically designed meadows for moist or
dry acid soil mixtures or designed meadows for moist or damp alkaline or neutral soils
"No cut" mixtures are available for sand, peat, clay and silt or fertile loam
Tall, short, early, late flowering or single colour mixtures provide further choice
However the best mixtures are derived from plant communities that
locally occur in the area. DBN can supply site specific wildflower
local floras for special nature conservation projects.
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