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Authentic Wildflower Seeds
Provenance: 100% Native Irish. 
Entirely Irish Sourced and Grown. 

Introducing 'Chuck and Grow' see below. :)

First Point of Contact: Free Quote, all customers should fill out the form before making contact.

We offer: The very best advice and Quality Seeds.
Fast - Free delivery by Án Post plus 3 year

OPEN Autumn '23: Wildflower seed sales. Best time to sow is SeptemberFree Quote,

Products and Price List  Use product code links,
All prices, net of 13.5% vat, Free Post.

The best meadows grow from a weed free seed bed.
Prices: net 19 - 26cent  per gram or 29 - 39cent  per metre.

If sowing into a degraded lawn use SeedMix DW04 @42cent per metre. Mix contains more 'Yellow Rattle' plus...

2 x New 'No work' 'Chuck and Grow' Products 2023

THE END OF LAWNS??? Another world first, 

1) ROGUE OUTLAW'N, CONVERTS ALL STRONG GROWING LAWNS TO WILDFLOWERS, CONVERTS ALL LAWNIES TO WILDFLOWER GROWERS. 
This brand New Product just requires the grower to cut at the exact time recommended to succeed and convert lawn to ecosystem, as the flowers we provide 'rogue out' the grasses and outlaw the lawn..
Launch Date Sept 25th, available now 

2) Peatland Ecosystem Restoration.
Winner of Ireland's Best New Horticulture Product 2023 Award by Glás/ Bord Bia & entire Hort-trade.

This 'Chuck and Grow' mixtures has been tested on Bord na Mona lands and that on Many Co Co's. On one bare site for the NPWS recorded one protected species and tow endangered all from our seed mixtures and correct advice.

Winter Workshops, Date to be announced : Winter Wildflower Workshop. Processing Wildflower Seed Crops., (extracting, cleaning, selecting, storing and germinating). This workshop is aimed at those who wish to collect scalable amounts. From Native Species Gene banks to Commercial cropping, we explore where the market is and where it's going. End of workshop info..

The First Point of Contact: Free Quote Form

To Buy Seed-Mixtures, Please use this easy questionnaire,
We ask about your site and measurements
.

Use the forms tick boxes:  about the soil
about sunlight & your sites' moisture levels 
Get a mix or species recommendation, 
We ask:  what is growing, what's the intended use?.
We then personally read what you tell us on the form & recommend the best mixture, quantity and much more.
Your also on the queuing system and will get fastest service, as the email will have a number and pass our firewall safety. 

First Point of Contact: Free Quote Form

Repeat orders?, Sales tracking?, Prices?, Amounts?, Get  Advice + 3 Year Guarantee & Support 

For Trade and Public:
Products and Price List each product code has a link to a species list and full growing details, please print as the spec's change each year.. 

Trade description: We grow the largest National Irish Wildflower Seed Collection, it's a Living Gene-bank. We store this nation's largest Wildflower Seed Collection its way bigger than the Botanic gardens stored seed gene-bank.  We are the real Irish wildflower specialists. 

50g Packet Price Range from €27.24 to €52.21, 
Scroll down for Re-sellers of small packs

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Wildflower Seed Producer: Mr Sandro Cafolla 
T/a Design By Nature  info@wildflowers.ie  
Seed House, Monavea, Carlow. (Co Laois) 
Email is best. Sales Ph:056 4442526. 

Phone Hours: 10 am to 12 noon, Mon-Friday
Visit by appointment only.
Established 1987, Trading since 1990

Tried & Tested: 
DAFM - Dept' of Agriculture - Registered
No: IECS-44
, Native Species Seed House 

Native Sourced Irish Wildflower Seed Grower, 
Harvester,  Supplier, Processor, Mixer and Packer.

On this very old web: (new WEB coming soon!)

Products and Price List includes product spec's

Growing Advice all about how to

Management after sowing solutions

All about us our work and cv, About Species

We grow a National Wildflower Seed Collection.

First Point of Contact: Free Quote Form

We guarantee all seeds, if you control the weeds
We supply a seed cert and instructions with all packs
and a 3 year guarantee, with support". 

'Standards: Conservation grade
EU Biodiversity Piller1-Priority Action - Genetic Conservation
Suitable for United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Restoration 
and All European Union assistance and supports policies. 

Provenance & Source: Irish native, wild sourced and farm grown WILDFLOWER SEED from 12+ Irish farms, over 500 acres.
DAFM Registered Seed House No: IECS-44 & tested, untreated,  Mixtures produced from various sustainable farm systems, SAC management, HVNF's, Permacultures, Regenerative or No-Input. where mechanical and hand weeding is used and Herbicide is only 'spot-applied' on occasion on 'Noxious weeds' and 'Invasive species' near crops or seed gene banks holding the national collection of Wildflower seed crops from which this product derives'. Seven Species including 'Yellow rattle, are produced from Certified Biodynamic or Organic farms.'  

Products and Price List includes product spec's

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Delivered FREE with Barcode 'Track and Traceable'.

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Please read 4 advice pages about wildflowers

Our Seeds have been officially tested for years. 
We don't stock Imported Seed
We Grow Totally Irish Authentic wildflower seed and often cheaper than Imports.
Unlike every other Irish seed merchant, we grow all our own crops in Ireland.
 

Wild Native seeds of The Flora of The Islands of Western Europe. There are no better Genetically pure more Authentic purer quality first generation Native provenance Irish sourced, Irish farm grown, processed in Ireland.  

First Point of Contact: Free Quote Form

3 Year Warranty, terms apply (see down page)
Supplying You with Seed that Grows
Biodiversity in every
Sack of Seed. 

We supply Nationwide, to Public and Trade, 
to Gardeners and Professional Designers 
To Infrastructure, Energy, Extraction Contractors.

WHAT WE DO: We are mainly a mail order business serving the trade and public with Seed mixtures. plants and individual species.

We are passionate about wildflowers. 
No other business produces Irish provenance native flora.  We grow acres of wild sourced seed, we travel miles
to find sources we can collect from.   and farm grown as crops 

Many of our species are first harvested by hand. 
Some crops we can take with combine harvesters, brush harvesters and our own bespoke methods.
Then the seed-head, chaff and  seed is gathered,  bundled, transported, to our seed house, where its checked, dried, sorted, straw is removed, chaff is removed, After winnowing and sieving it's then  stored, to be mixed and packed, all in Ireland, for Irish growers.

Wildflowers are older than the oldest antiques,  
Brighter than the newest novelty

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Contact: Mr Sandro Cafolla t/a Design By Nature - Www.wildflowers.ie  (that's me :) Irish national, Dublin Born, 

100% Irish Owned, First for Nature:  Ireland's first native seed producer. Established 1990, based in Carlow and Laois. (Our first publication 1987 was about Saving wildflowers)

  Great Irish Horticulture IECS-44 - Native Sourced Irish Wildflower Seed Grower, Harvester, Supplier, Processor, Mixer and Packer 

Vat No : IE 3656298P | Business Reg: 109182

The Clear Market Leader: Established 1987

, We farm grow wild sourced native flora. In 1990 we established the National Irish Wildflower Seed Collection, By 2022, 30,000+ Irish customers. Eight Employees, 10 Farmers

Our very low input system produces from 3 to 5 tons of production from about 500 acres.

Handing On Our Heritage. Since 1990, we supplied over 4000 H.a of Native wild flora to our wonderful customers. That's 60 tons of wildflower seed, about 75 Billion large seeds and 180 trillion small seeds.

Wildflower seed mixtures are beautiful, 
educational, inspirational, great for wildlife 
and amazing to 'Bee' around. 

Wild flower meadow mixtures are far less 
work than lawns, 
Meadows save you lots of money and time.

 

Contact us and 'GET A QUOTE

Email. info@wildflowers.ie

If you send an email, please put our email address
in your friends list, so our response does not 
go into your trash or spam.

United Nations Decade on ecosystem-restoration 2021-2030 this link opens a PDF download from EU 
Scientific proof that wildflowers protect nature

ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/pdf/
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Our Groundbreaking advice and Product Success is 
world famous

We are the world first business to established to protect nature. Today we are teaching the Irish and European seed industry about the importance of wildflowers and how to grow crops and keep them wild.

Cv: Representing Ireland Inc for Bord Bia. Brand Image.   Irish first advisor on Biodiversity to our Government.  Training Teagasc, the Farmer and the Irish Seed Industry. 
Saving Species growing Ecologies.
Free advice & successful meadows to over 60,000 Irish Gardeners, thousands of farmers, schools and tidy-towns.

Recent Customers incl: Most Co Councils, OPW, NPWS, Coillte, MSD, BnMona, Musgraves, Keelings, Intel, HSA, Most recent Infrastructure project : N59 Road and Sligo By Pass, We supply advice and seeds for roadways plantings, land-caps, Solar and wind-farms, extraction industries,  Biodiversity for Social responsibility in Food, Pharma and IT sectors.

Saving nature, re-wilding Ireland
Helping you sow and grow your Irish Garden 


If you don't wish to buy direct, Our re-sellers are

www.mrmiddleton.com   www.theirishgardener.com

www.thegardenshop.ie   www.connectingtonature.ie

Always ask for Irish native 'provenance' as many seed sellers import 'native' !!! wildflowers and sell them alongside our native Irish seed

Site Summary:

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Mail Order, ÁnPost Delivery 

Delivered FREE with Barcode 'Track and Traceable'.

We sell seed mixtures of wild sourced hand picked quality perennials, then grown across Ireland on Irish Farms.

Totally Irish Provenance Certified Seed.

Tested by DAFM in Ireland and EU Legal.

Handing On Our Heritage

We are the FIRST and ONLY Irish Producer and Grower of a wide range of Irish Native provenance wild and farm grown Flora.

We guarantee all seeds, if you control the weeds
We supply a seed cert and instructions with all packs
and a 3 year guarantee, with support". 

Wildflower seed mixtures are beautiful, 
educational, inspirational, great for wildlife 
and amazing to 'Bee' around. 

Wild flower meadow mixtures are far less 
work than lawns, 
Meadows save you lots of money and time.

  Great Irish Horticulture 

Measurement guide: hectare ha, 10,000 m2 or 2.471 acres
One international acre is defined as 4046 square metres. 

One old' acre equals about 4425 imperial 

(0.405 hectares) | 4,840 sq yards, | 43,560 sq feet 

About OUR PROFITS.  
Your purchases helps keep us as the leading independent, non funded, Direct Action, plant species based conservation organized business in Ireland
Unlike all others we always have been a 'Socially orientated micro SME' who has always spoken first for nature, we directly 'act' to save species, we are not funded.

Due to thousands of customers, and that we are Ireland's longest lasting social business, we use all profits in protecting biodiversity and saving species. 
We pay some of the highest horticulture wages in Ireland because our team is highly skilled-multi-disciplinary and very 'Lean'..

Your support funds or conservation.

Our seed is all produced as HVNF, some SAC, 
more natural farming, a touch of organic symbol 
farms and a few conventional low input farms.
In some crops we use small amounts of 
herbicides in most crops, no inputs at all.

We have a positive Carbon footprint its -net Zero.
We sequester 107,359 tons of Carbon per year
We consume 34,600 tons of Carbon per year, Not including our trees and shelter belts.

BEWARE OF BREXIT IMPOSTER POSERS IMPORTING!!! 

Even an Irish phone and address does not mean the firm or the WILDFLOWER SEED OR PLANT stock is Irish. 

It MUST SAY: Provenance: Native Irish, Sourced in Ireland and Tested by DAFM.
NOR SHOULD IT BE A CERTIFIED AGRI-FORBE as many are cheap CULTIVATED VARIETIES OF IMPORTED WILDFLOWER 'types and varieties'' called Forbes and are EU Certified for FOR FARM USE ONLY
. Many Irish sellers, are importing flora, that they called wild. it's not.

Native Irish provenance flowers can survive your local climatic conditions and protect local wildlife.

Unlike non-native plants. when you buy native sourced Irish species they flower at the same time as the wildlife that visits the plants, 

Imported wildflowers can bring plant disease and pests to Ireland.

Your purchases also supports jobs in Ireland. 
Our products are price competitive with EU. and UK  imports.

Our products cannot be compared to USA imported flora 

as they are totally different, if a mix contain larkspur, calendula, 

blue lupine, Californian poppy or many others such as flax, 

its not a native mix, even if it says wildflower, 

they are cultivated forms of wildflowers and not natives.


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How Bold are WE ? We are even teaching our competitors to grow wildflowers so that the industry can grow quicker, that seed prices fall and we will then be able to grow the rarer species and save them too. 

BEWARE: Claims of supply of 'local Irish provenance' from UK firms and NI charities and government funded NI businesses are Totally disputed by the entire Irish seed industry. Ecological so called local provenance ecomix seeds both legally, physically cannot and do not collect seed in every Irish county. it economical suicide and a waste of seed that dont sell.

We on the other hand are training a Leader funded pilot study to create local gene-banks of Irish species throughout the 26 counties.

We Do Not Supply:
'Green washing' projects or Russian Fascists

Nor do we support the Green washing nor lies and mistruths that the Pollinator Program says about wildflowers.  The Irish pollinator program supports a windfarm who destroyed two pairs of breeding Curlews, that same windfarm has a Pollinator sign on the gate. That's simply GREEN-WASHING 

  Great Irish Horticulture 

(Dept' Agriculture) :Registered Native Sourced Irish 

Wildflower Seed Grower, Harvester, 

Supplier, Processor, Mixer and Packer 

DAFM Registered No: IECS-44

Vat No : IE 3656298P | Business Reg: 109182

Exact Standards: IECS-44-EC rules & standards  EU-TTC=IRE-SEE-N-17-19
DBN-ConservationGrade
DBN-NativeProvenance

(Our standard supercedes all other Industrial standards as recognised by EU, F.A.O. and U.N) 
There are no better Genetically pure more Authentic purer quality first generation Native provenance Irish sourced, Irish farm grown, processed in Ireland Wild Native seeds of The Flora of The Islands of Western Europe. 

On this very old web: (new WEB coming soon!)

Products and Price List includes product spec's

Growing Advice all about how to

Management after sowing solutions

Free Quote