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- 2010

We are now building our new web and new online shop, this is the last update to this web site.

Seed Sowing: The 2010 sowing season is now underway

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There are many different ways to cut a meadow: Please remember, when browsing through this web site  'cutting a meadow' describes many things, there are different heights to cut a meadow, different times to cut a meadow and different reason and species to cut a meadow for, DBN is working hard to bring you the feed back from our customers.............

Timing of Wildflower Meadow Cutting: 

A meadow usually requires to be cut and the dead grass and weeds removed as well as raked over, some meadows don't, but nearly all require some cutting, many meadows require more that on cut a year.

The first cut may be in spring for some meadows, or in summer for others in autumn for the tallest.  The first cut can be in spring or summer or Autumn depending on the meadow. 

First Cut: The first cut can be in spring 
  • 'low growing' meadows: Low growing spring flowers can start flowering in April. The first cut in any year should be before 21st April for spring flowers and 21 May for summer flowers, cut even if early flowering plants are in flower, treat these like lawn daisies, they will re-grow and re-flower, just don't cut too low..  
    Low growing spring flowers are then allowed to flower until June when plants such as Ox-eye Daisy, White Campion, Rattle, Sorrel, Plantain and Trefoil flower. 
  • 'medium height' meadows: The first cut is generally in April, for further advice about an individual seed mixture refer to the specifications attached to each seed mixture, these are found else where on this site.
  • 'tall meadows': may require a cut in spring, because it didn't get a cut last year or it may require a cut if there are species that need to be cut in spring or the meadow mixture is sown on grassy or weedy ground, what ever the reason there is advice on this web site about specific cutting times, see the seed mixtures. 
The second or summer cut .
  • Give the 'low grow' meadow a second cut mid June or July according to the species and give the 'medium height' meadow another cut in mid summer to high summer just as the first flush of flowers fade, but dont wait.
    'Tall meadows' require no cutting in summer unless specified. Tall meadows are cut in spring or at the end of summer.
The first or final cut: 
  • The final cut be called 'the end of Summer Cut' or the 'Third Cut' or the 'first Cut' depending on what meadow it refers to. Meadows that haven't been cut all year get there first cut and only cut usually after July 21st............but that all depends.......on you.........I can only recommend from my experience, and it seems, we must cut for most mixtures, places and species, but 'when', now that is an entirely different matter. Our customers have failed and succeeded by cutting at the most unusual times.
More notes about cutting a meadow: 
Cut all meadows,  When the meadow has finished flowering,  after 21st August and before October, at the latest. 

Late summer or tall flowering meadow plants may flower and until mid September. Yarrow, Devil's Bit, Marjoram, Bedstraw Loosestrife and Meadowsweet respond well to late cutting. If at this stage and over mild winters if the meadow seems untidy or is too tall cut it back to 4".

Indian summers: if the summer is prolonged, a meadow may flower into November.

In truth, the cutting dates are entirely up to you and these ones listed here are for a cool/ temperate oceanic climate. The cutting dates provided are used as guidelines and cutting should depend on when the flowering season is finished or when specific heights are reached.

REMEMBER: Always remove 'cut' materials.
Most wildflowers will die if grass cuttings are not removed. 

 
 
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