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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:
Range: Wildflower Mixture (Code
WL)
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Product Name: Traditional Meadow Mixture
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Product Code: WF02 |
Number of Species:
21 |
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Description:
WF02
is a general seed mixture, of the type found in an old unfertilised Hay
field. Grasses can be sown with this mixture.
WF02 will eventually provide single bold swathes of colour.
This mix will grow on any normal to poor soil acid to neutral or even a mildly alkaline soil.
It tolerates moist to dry soil, clay to lighter soil.
WF02 will tolerate grazing, but not cutting in May, June and Mid July.
After the first year cut in August, clear up the cuttings
From the second year, cut in early April and again in late July or early august, after cutting some species will re-emerge to flower.
Cut
again in September or October in growth is strong.
Click
here for Growing Instructions
Special Note: Yellow Rattle is reported as not suitable for stock, however
it is an important component to all traditional Irish Hay
Meadows.
Mixture Specifications:
pH range: Suits all soils.
Aspect: Sunny
Life Cycle:
Contains Annuals, Biennials
& Perennials.
Height Range: 30cm - 160cm
Flowering Period: May to Late July.
Fertility Range:
Will
grow on any soil, the less fertile the soil, the
less cutting will be required.
Wintergreen: Moderate
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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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For pictures of individual species open a
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Species
List: Birdsfoot Trefoil, Black Meddick, Corn
Chamomile, Corn Marigold, Corn Poppy, Corncockle, Cornflower,
Fleabane, Lesser
Knapweed, Scented Mayweed, Meadowsweet, Ox-eye
Daisy, Red Campion, Red
Clover, Salad Burnet, Selfheal, St Johnswort, Wild Carrot, White Clover, Yarrow, Yellow Rattle, (additional species may be added
according to the details supplied about your site conditions.)
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Seed Sowing Rates:
Normal
sowing rates:
Pure wildflowers - no grass 1.5 grams per metre.
Added
grass seed: 1 to 5 grams per metre
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General Description of Ecotype Range:
The 'WF' 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. Back to Top
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 another Irish wildflower
grower.
Professional
Ecologists: Our 'WF 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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