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Handing
On Our Heritage
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If purchasing this
seed mix, print this page and keep it as your reference. |
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 Irish Wildflower
Seed Mixture:
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Product Name: Irish Garden Wildflower Meadow Mixture
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Product Code: GF01 -
Number of Species:
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Description:
GF01 contains well behaved species ideal for smaller
gardens and formal wildflower lawns.
This mixtures contains the most
colourful of all the tidy species in our entire range and suits nearly every
situation.
This
mixture is not intended for fertile soils as the resulting weeds or grass
will smother it.
Plant in full sun, where it will flower in the first year.
Dislikes very wet or very dry soil.
Requires only one cut pre year, but two or three will make it more tidy for your garden and help it to flower more, cut to 4 inches.
Mixture Specifications:
Origin: 100% Native Irish
Origin, Wildflower Seed Mixture.
pH range: Suits most garden soils.
Aspect: Sunny
Life Cycle: Contains Annuals, Biennials
& Perennials.
Height Range: 30cm - 160cm
Flowering Period: May to August.
Fertility Range:
Will
grow on any soil, the less fertile the soil, the smaller the growth, and
less cutting will be required.
Wintergreen: Moderate
Total number of seeds per gram:
1600
Click
here for Growing Instructions
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 This
photograph is one day in the life of an ever changing meadow.
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Species List:
Black Meddick, Century, Corn Chamomile, Corn Marigold, Corn Poppy, Cornflower,
Corncockle, Cowslip, Devil's Bit Scabious, Eyebright, Kidney Vetch, Lady's Bedstraw, Marjoram, Scented Mayweed, Ox-eye Daisy, Red
Bartsia, Red Campion, Red Clover, Selfheal, Sorrel, St Johnswort, Yarrow, Yellow Rattle.
For pictures of individual species open a
new browser here
If
you seek the botanical name of a species click here
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Seed Sowing Rates:
Sowing rate: 1.5 grams per metre.
Click
here for Growing Instructions
Nurse
Crop: A nurse crop is not required
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General Description of Ecotype Range:
The 'GW' Garden Wildflower range is designed to grow on soil in any
situation.
If these mixtures are suitable for your situation, they offer good value
and if
given time, develop into a flora that will persist if properly maintained.
Wildflower growing is relatively new to horticulturalists, please check our online
Wildflower Growers Manual
for further details.
Product
Warning: DBN
recommends that this mixture is not for human or animal consumption. Click
here for further details
Your purchase:
Contributes to DBN's work of creating crops
of Conservation Grade - Native Origin Wildflora. You help us to inform
and pay land-owners to manage native species and to assist DBN in
handing on our heritage for another generation.
By growing (some will be difficult) these and all other species, you
directly help to conserve national and global Biodiversity and protect
wildlife. You should also consider yourself as another Irish wildflower
grower.
Professional
Ecologists: Our 'GF Range' is intended as a 'general' horticultural range of
flora suitable across a
wide range of Irish sites.
For further reading see: Genetic
diversity- Seed Triggers.
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Treatments - Stratification, Scarification and more
For seed mixtures by
percentage weight see Mixture
composition - Seed percentage
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