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Description:
This new version of our tall flowering mixture is a timeless favourite amongst our customers as it requires minimum maintenance and suits most soil types.
GF02 is designed for larger wilder gardens with plenty of space.
This is another really easy mixture to establish. It is especially for large gardens, country houses and landscapes which need wildflowers for
impact and very wildlife friendly. This mixture is good for sowing with
new hedges as it provides shelter.
GF02 will act as a summer screen, and is ideal for sowing behind shorter meadows, up to tall walls and on waste ground for wildlife.
Grow in full sun to light shade on any soil and you will be surprised at the amount of butterflies and bees that it attracts, hoverflies love the species herein.
This mixture can be scattered between shrubs, and in all those places little else will grow.
This is a very low maintenance mixture, but cut it at least once per year, if you wish instead of cutting at the end of summer, cut it in spring. this way the seed heads will feed the birds all winter. Always clear the dead cut materials away and rake the soil after to allow new seeds.
This mixture contains species, that if left uncut can compete with grasses and will spread to form bold clumps of insect attracting flora.
If it can be cut once a year all the better. Included are particularly useful for beneficial insects such as Yarrow,
Knapweed and Wild Angelica.
This mixture can be sown with grass but is best sown pure wildflowers.
Keep a separate grassy space near by for the butterflies.
Mixture Specifications:
Origin: Native
Irish Origin, Wildflower Seed Mixture
pH range: Suits all soils, bar peaty acidic soils.
Aspect: Sunny to light shade
Life Cycle:
Contains Cornfield Annuals, Biennials and Perennials
Height Range: 60cm - 220cm
Flowering Period: May to September.
Fertility Range:
Will
grow on any soil, the less fertile the soil, the
less cutting will be required.
Wintergreen: Yes
Total number of seeds per gram:
1300
Species List:
Red Campion, White Campion, Burdock, Field Buttercup, Common Vetch, Corn Chamomile, Corn Marigold, Corn
Poppy, Corncockle, Cornflower, Devils bit Scabious, Field Scabious, Foxglove, Hedge Garlic Mustard, Hemp
Agrimony, Lesser Knapweed, Scented Mayweed, Meadowsweet, Mullein, Ox-eye Daisy, Purple Loosestrife,
Parsnip, Dwarf Mallow, St Johnswort, Salad Burnet, Teasel, Upright Hedge Parsley, Wild Angelica, Wild Carrot, Yarrow, Yellow
Agrimony, Plantain, White Bedstraw*,& Sainfoil*
*Introduced
species
This
photograph is one day in the life of an ever changing meadow.
For pictures of individual species open a
new browser here
 If
you seek the botanical name of a species click here
Seed Sowing Rates:
Normal
sowing rates:
Pure wildflowers - no grass no annuals: 1
to 1.5 grams per metre.
With Added annuals: An extra 2 grams per metre of annuals
Added
grass seed: An extra 1.5 grams per metre of grass
Grass
seed or nurse crop requirement:
Nurse
Crop: None required
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General Description of Range:
The 'GF' Wild Flower 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 Wild flora. 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' Garden horticultural range of
flora suitable across a
wide range of Irish Gardens.
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
Design By Nature ©
Crettyard, Carlow, Ireland.
Web Site:www.wildflowers.ie
Telephone:
++ 353 (0)56 4442526
Email: info@wildflowers.ie
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