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Seed
Mixture Specifications:
Origin: Native Irish Origin, Wildflower Seed Mixture. EC11
Suitable for soil type: All types of soil, Clay, Loam, Sand,
Light Soil, preferably not heavy soil
Moisture Level: Dry, Normal, Moist, but not Wet
pH range: Best between 5.5 - 7.9
Aspect: Sunny or slightly shaded for part of the day.
Morphology:
Life Cycle: Annual / Biennial /
Perennial.
Height Range: <2cm to >60cm
Flowering Period: April to August.
Fertility Range: Avoid fertile soil.
Wintergreen: Yes, depends on situation and if sown with grass.
The main species which should persist in this
mixture:
Common Bent Grass, Cowslip, Lady's Bedstraw, Ox-eye Daisy, Ivy Leaved Toadflax,
Selfheal,
Sheep's Bit Scabious, Lesser/Yellow Clover 'shamrock'.
Annual
Species: Blackstonia, Century, Sand Spurry, Corn Spurry, Fairy Flax, Eyebright, Corn Pansy,
Red Bartsia, Yellow Rattle.
Biennial Species:
Storksbill,
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Rare, unusual, and feature species: White Stonecrop, Burnet Saxifrage, Century, Wild
Chamomile, Sea
Campion, Ivy Leaved Toadflax, Quaking Grass, Wall Pennywort,
Thyme (Wild), Sweet Violet, Dog Violet, Allium carinatum, Harebell, Cat's Ear,
Fairy Foxglove,
Wallflower.
Species which will grow if the conditions are ideal: Wallflower,
White Stonecrop, Harebell, Wall Pennywort,
Thyme (Wild).
Species which will be affected by management: All. Every
situation will encourage different species, however the simple rule is
do not let anyone species dominate.
Additional species which could be added to this mixture as individual species of seeds or plants:
Purple Toadflax and Wall Valerian, Seek advice it depends on where and on what it is sown.
Design
Notes: Please
ask for 'Bespoke mixtures' to best suit your specific project.
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Sowing Specification:
As Normal, Splatter, hydra-sow or roll or rake into surface to
keep out of reach from birds. Click
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Soil Preparation:
Walls and roofs will require specialist advice.
Ensure a totally weed
free fine tilt or press the seed into clean soil.
Optimum Sowing Time: Early spring, early
autumn, when the soil is warm.
Sowing Conditions:
Normal, do not let the site dry out once sown, wall tops dry out in
hours, 'sod roofs' suffer wind desiccation and this will kill emerging
seedlings.
Sowing Method: 'By hand' is recommended, if
using seed spreaders be careful to insure the small varieties of seed do
not drop to the bottom of the seed spreader and get sown all in the one
place. Can be Hydrasown. Click
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Fertiliser: None, unless very poor
fertility such as sand or limestone dry fill. Powdered or liquid seaweed will aid germination.
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Seed Sowing Rates:
Normal
sowing rate = 1.5 to 2 to 4 grams per metre.
Sowing rate with additional species of specialist grass seed: Add
1 gram per metre.
Grass
seed or nurse crop requirement:
Nurse
Crop: No nurse crop is required.
Grass Seed Requirement: n/a, use Bent and
Creeping Fescue species
Sow with or without grasses: Either / With Grasses /
without grasses
Sowing rate with grasses: Add 1 gram grass seed per metre.
If sown without grasses,
this mixture:
Will not require a nurse crop.
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Seed Specification:
Total number of seeds per gram: 7870
In normal conditions (mainly in early Autumn and Spring) this mix should germinate 6 weeks
after sowing, from then on provided the sward is kept open and a 'Thatch' is not allowed develop, species will continue to germinate and emerge, through
to the third year.
Up to 50% of all seed should germinate in the first year.
Up to 70% of all species should germinate in 12 months.
Up to 80% of all species
should have flowered by the fourth year after sowing.
Performance:
This seed mixture will be slow and difficult to establish
Persistence if unmanaged:
Medium
Tolerance of Cutting: Medium
General Cutting Time: August. Cutting may be hazardous on roofs,
no cutting should be required on walls, instead tidy the dead foliage
and hand weed.
Specific Cutting Time: n/a
Management: Control grasses and weeds until
well established.
Most species in this mixture
are 'wind' resistant.
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General Description of Ecotype Range:
Ecotype seed mixtures are
designed to imitate natural ecologies found in specific situations.
The EC range is not intended as an exact copies of an Irish ecosystem but to represent floras that would otherwise take hundreds of years to develop
if 'nature' was left unaided.
This range of seed mixture is ideal for those concerned with encouraging wildlife and local biodiversity as
the plants will attract species suited to the ecology.
If these mixtures are suitable for your situation, they offer good value, contain some of the most exacting and unusual species and if
given time, develop into a diverse flora that will persist if properly maintained.
Professional
Ecologists: Our 'Ecotype Flora Range' is intended as a
baseline 'non-locally' specific flora suitable for conservation across a
wide range of sites found in Ireland.
For further reading see: Seed
supply for Irish Habitats by classification. For seed mixtures by
percentage weight see Mixture
composition- Seed percentage. Seed
Treatments- Stratification, Scarification, Heat treatments and more.
Genetic
diversity- Seed Triggers.
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Telephone:
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Email: info@wildflowers.ie
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