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 Irish Wildflower
Seed Mixture: Range: Wildflower Mixture (Code WL)
Product Name: Biodiversity Wildflower Meadow Mixture.
Product Code: WF03
Number of Species: 37
Description:
This Biodiverse mixture contains the very best wildflowers that will attract wildlife in abundance.
This all purpose wildflower seed mixture is best sown without grasses on small plots, < 1 acre.
In the long term, WF03 will tend to give an even colour throughout.
WF03
is a special mixture for any normal soil, moist
or dry.
Suitable
for most soils that are not overly acid or alkaline.
WF03 is a general mixture only, and not intended to be sown on very wet or very dry soils,
Mixture Specifications:
pH range: Suits all soils.
Aspect: Sunny
Life Cycle:
Contains Cornfield Annuals, Perennials and Biennials .
Height Range: 30cm - 160cm
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
 This
photograph is one day in the life of an ever changing meadow.
Species
List:
Birdsfoot Trefoil, Black Meddick, Cowslip, Devil's Bit Scabious, Meadow Buttercup, Field Scabious, Hemp Agrimony, Kidney Vetch, Lady's Bedstraw, Lesser Knapweed, Marsh Ragwort, Meadowsweet, Mullein, Ox-eye Daisy, Purple
Loosestrife, Ragged Robin, Red Campion, Red Clover, Ribwort
Plantain, Rough Hawksbit, Sorrel, St Johnswort, Wild Angelica, Wild Carrot, Wild Parsnip, Yarrow, Yellow
Agrimony, Yellow Rattle, Salad Burnet.
20% annuals Corn
Chamomile, Corn Marigold, Corn Poppy, Corncockle, Cornflower, Scented Mayweed,
If
you seek the botanical name of a species click here
Seed Sowing Rates:
Normal
sowing rates:
Pure wildflowers - no grass, 1.5 grams per metre.
Added
grass seed: 1.5 grams per metre (depending on grass species).
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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.
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.
| Seed
Treatments - Stratification, Scarification and more
For seed mixtures by
percentage weight see Mixture
composition - Seed percentage
Design By Nature ©
Crettyard, Carlow, Ireland.
Web
Sites:
Telephone:
++ 353 (0)56 4442526
www.wildflowers.ie
Email: info@wildflowers.ie
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