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 Irish Wildflower
Seed Mixture:
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Product Name: GF03 Butterflies, Bees and Bird Attracting Wildflowers
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Product Code: GF03 |
Number of Species:
44 |
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Description:
This
is a colourful mixture and is ideal for farms, Estates, Parks, Gardens and Schools.
GF03
is a designed seed mixtures for those who seek to have a range of colourful flowers and attract wildlife, This see mixture will grow in wet or dry soils, sunny or slightly shaded. Its ideal for large sunny sheltered areas especially mounds, 'hillocks' and south-facing
ground. Where the warm microclimate helps pollination.
This mixture is designed to provide seed in
autumn and winter to attract over 20 of the more common bird and 16 Butterfly species as well as
provide seed feed for winter migrant birds, such as Goldfinch.
In summer this mixture will be
alive with edible insects for migrant summer visitors such as Warblers.
Some of these insects will over winter in the seed heads, further
providing protein for winter birds.
GF03 can be planted as a meadow or in a bed, ideally it is
best planted in a sheltered open or lightly shaded situation where the
birds are given some nearby shrubby cover. You can also plant it in full view of
windows for observation.
GF03 attracts insects, which in turn feed birds such as Blue Tits, Thrushes
and Warblers, this mixture is also considered beneficial planting for
biological control of pests in gardens
In Ireland there are 32 native butterflies, this mixture is designed to
attract 16 of the more common species.
GF03 also attracts bees, especially bumble bees and beneficial garden
insects.
Butterflies, Bees and Bird Attracting Wildflowers can be planted as a meadow or in a bed, ideally it is best planted in
an open situation where the butterflies will bask in the sun.
Ref: List
of Butterfly attracting species and Butterflies
SEE; The Butterflies of
Ireland. Dr N Hicken, ISBN 1 879373 01 7.
Click
here for Growing Instructions
Mixture Specifications:
GF03 should not be cut at the end of
summer, leave the seed heads on so that the birds, especially finches can
search the heads for seeds and provide hours of fascinating entertainment.
Cut in Spring. OR cut the most showy lower half at the end of summer and leave the taller seed heads for the birds all winter
Origin: Native Irish
Origin, Wildflower Seed Mixture.
pH range: Suits all soils.
Aspect: Sunny to light or semi shade, but not too shaded
Life Cycle:
Contains Annuals, Biennials and Perennials.
Height Range: 30cm - 240cm
Flowering Period: May to September.
Fertility Range:
Will
grow on any soil, the less fertile the soil, the
less cutting will be required.
Wintergreen: Moderate
Total number of seeds per gram:
980
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This
photograph is one day in the life of an ever changing meadow.
For pictures of individual species open a
new browser here
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Species
List:
Birdsfoot Trefoil, Burdock, Burnet Saxifrage, Common Vetch, Corn Chamomile, Corn Marigold, Corn Poppy, Corncockle, Cornflower, Cowslip, Devil's Bit Scabious, Feverfew, Field Scabious, Fleabane, Foxglove, Greater Knapweed, Greater Trefoil, Hedge Garlic Mustard, Hemp
Agrimony, Hoary Plantain, Kidney Vetch, Lady's Bedstraw, Lesser Knapweed, Marjoram, Scented Mayweed, Meadow Vetchling, Meadowsweet, Ox-eye Daisy, Purple Loosestrife, Ragged Robin,
Red Campion, Red Clover, Rough Hawksbit, Ribwort Plantain, Shepherds Purse, Sorrel, St Johnswort, Teasel, Water Avens, Wild Angelica,
Wild Carrot, Yarrow, Dames Violet, Dog Violet, Wood Sage, Lady's Smock.
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Seed Sowing Rates:
Normal
sowing rates:
Pure wildflowers - no grass no annuals: 1
to 1.5 grams per metre.
Click
here for Growing Instructions
Grass
seed or nurse crop requirement:
Nurse
Crop: A nurse crop is not required
A General Description of Garden Flora Range:
The 'GF' Wild Flower range is designed to grow on soil in any Gardensituation.
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 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
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