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Description:
This
new version of our tall flowering mixture is a
timeless favourite amongst our customers as it requires minimum or no maintenance and suits most soil types.
GF05 is especially for large gardens,
country houses and landscapes which need dramatic impact.
This mixture contains species blended in a way 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.
GF05 will act as a summer screen, and is ideal for sowing behind shorter
meadows, up to tall walls and on waste ground.
Included are particularly
useful for beneficial insects such as Yarrow, Burdock and Wild Angelica.
This is not a mixture for small gardens or the faint hearted, but it is spectacular and attracts all beneficial wildlife species.
Mixture Specifications:
Origin: 100%
Native Irish Origin
pH range: Suits all soils, bar wet
Aspect: Sunny to light shade
Life Cycle:
Contains Perennials or Biennials and Cornfield Annuals.
Height Range: 50cm - 240cm
Flowering Period: May to August.
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: 1300
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Species
List:
Alexanders, Bladder Campion, Burdock, Common Vetch, Corn Chamomile, Corn
Marigold, Corn Poppy, Corncockle, Cornflower, Field Scabious, Foxglove,
Greater Trefoil, Hedge Garlic Mustard, Hemp Agrimony, Cow-Parsley, Lesser
Knapweed, Scented Mayweed, Meadowsweet, Mullein, Opium Poppy, Ox-eye
Daisy, Purple Loosestrife, Red Campion, St
Johnswort, Teasel, Upright Hedge Parsley, Weld -Yellow weed, Wild
Angelica, Wild Carrot, Wild Parsnip, Yarrow, Yellow Flag Iris, Mugwort, Pokeweed, White Bedstraw.
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Seed Sowing Rates:
Normal
sowing rates:
Pure wildflowers - no grass no annuals: 1
to 1.5 grams per metre.
If with added annuals: Add 1 to 2 grams per
metre.
If added
grass seed: Add 1 to 5 grams per metre
(depending).
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 Garden 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 Gardens.
For further reading see: Genetic
diversity- Seed Triggers.
| Seed
Treatments - Stratification, Scarification and more
For seed mixtures by
percentage weight see Mixture
composition - Seed percentage
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