Pack size: 250g | 1 KG
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I-DS Dual Purpose contains twenty three native British wildflower species and grasses typically found in areas across all soil types.
£50.00 – £72.00
Pack size: 250g | 1 KG
* Please note the price displayed is ex-VAT and this will be added at point of checkout.
I-DS Dual Purpose contains twenty three native British wildflower species and grasses typically found in areas across all soil types.
I-DS Dual purpose contains twenty three native British wildflower species, complemented by grasses typically found across all soil types.
Consisting of 70% grasses and 30% wildflowers, I-DS Dual Purpose creates a permanent sward with flowers from May to October and suitable for creating habitats in areas containing a range of micro climates or where there are no particular severe weather conditions to overcome.
Why Sow Wild Flowers
Wild flowers are a very important part of our everyday life providing a rich, colourful and diverse ecological habitat for many insects and wildlife. They also offer great aesthetic value to enhance the natural beauty of the British countryside, motorway networks, parkland and gardens.
Over the past 50 years, the number of traditional wild flower meadows has dramatically declined which has resulted in a noted decrease of British Insects. For pollination to take place, we need the ideal flowers to attract those all-important bees, ensuring plants become fertilised and reproduce.
Idealseed mixtures contain high proportions of recommended of NATIVE WILDFLOWERS on the Royal Horticultural Society’s list of plants which are ‘Perfect Pollinators’.
Native British Wild Flowers are important to all of us
The rich and varied wild flower species suited to our climate provides a flowering period from spring through to autumn creating a colourful environment whilst providing a vital habitat for wildlife.
Golf Courses:
Golf Courses can provide excellent habitats for wild flowers as part of a low maintenance scheme which can improve the biodiversity on the course.
Highways, Embankments and Verges:
Road highways are also very important locations to establish wild flowers as they provide areas for insects and wildlife while requiring low maintenance compared to 100% grass swards.
Agricultural land:
Farmers and land owners are now being encouraged to establish field margins and new areas of wild flowers which will help populations of butterflies, bees and other insects increase. This also provides habitats for game birds and other wildlife our Cornfield annual produces a brilliant display of flowers in the first summer following sowing.
70/30% Ratio
Idealseed supply either 100% Wildflower mixtures or most popularly 70% Grasses and 30% Wildflower mixtures. Such a mixture is called a “nurse crop” and usually takes the form of an open growing non-competitive grass seed mixture. Given the correct future maintenance, this nurse crop will gradually form a smaller and smaller contingent of the sward, being replaced by the wildflowers as they establish and mature. If, however, the seed is being sown on a small area, perhaps in a garden where weed control will not be a problem as it can be carried out manually, then the cover crop can be omitted, and 100% wildflower mixture sown.
The seeds in your mixture will have originated from a wild flower production field. This seed will have been multiplied in single species plots from seed sourced in the wild. From seeding to harvesting it can take two growing seasons before a seed crop is produced. Once harvested, the seed is cleaned to remove the inert matter and provide high purity seed.
PREPARATION and ESTABLISHMENT
Sowing Rate: 70/30% – 5 gms/m2
20% Wildflowers | Includes 23 Wildflower Species | |
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Common Name | Species Name | % |
Black Medick | Medicago lupilina | 7.0 |
Buttercup, Meadow | Ranunculus acris | 6.0 |
Campion, Red | Silene dioica | 6.0 |
Campion, White | Silene alba | 5.0 |
Catchfly, Night-Flowering | Silene noctiflora | 5.0 |
Clary, Wild | Salvia verbenaca | 5.0 |
Cowslip | Primula veris | 1.0 |
Forget-me-not, Field | Myosotis arvensis | 4.0 |
Clover, Wild White | Trifoliumrepens | 1.0 |
Knapweed, Common | Centaurea nigra | 6.0 |
Goatsbeard | Tragopogon pratensis | 4.0 |
Knapweed, Greater | Centaurea scabiosa | 4.0 |
Lady’s Bedstraw | Galium verum | 6.0 |
Musk Mallow | Malva moschata | 3.0 |
Oxeye Daisy | Leucanthemum vulgare | 4.0 |
Plantain, Hoary | Plantago media | 3.0 |
Plantain, Ribwort | Plantago lanceolata | 3.0 |
Salad Burnet | Sanguisorba minor | 8.0 |
Selfheal | Prunella vulgaris | 5.0 |
Sorrel, Common | Rumex acetosa | 5.0 |
St John’s-wort, Common | Hypericum perforatum | 2.5 |
Wild Carrot | Daucus carota | 4.0 |
Yellow Rattle | Rhinanthus minor | 2.5 |
80% Grasses | ||
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Bent, Browntop | Agrostis castellana | 5.0 |
Crested Dogstail | Cynosurus cristatus | 25.0 |
Fescue, Sheeps | Festuca ovina | 20.0 |
Fescue, Strong Creeping Red | Festuca rubra, lotoralis | 30.0 |
Smooth Stalked M.Grass | Poa pratensis | 8.0 |
Timothy, Small Leaved | Phleum pratense ssp Bertolinii | 12.0 |
Weight | 1 kg |
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Size | 250g, 1 Kg |
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