Wild Flower Meadows Why not bring a little piece of the countryside into your garden by creating a miniature wildlife habitat?
Even if it is only a small corner with a few plants to encourage bees, butterflies, birds and small mammals into your garden, you will be doing your bit to preserve and improve the natural habitat of this country.
Although there are many ways to go about achieving this, and some of the following suggestions may help, it should be recognised that you are trying to imitate habitats that have taken many years to develop and not to expect instant results at your first attempt:-
 Sowing UK native and produced wild flower seeds, complete with a low competition grass seed mixture (20%/80% mixtures) to create a mini-meadow.
- This will create a meadow which is quite easy to look after and provide interest through the growing season.
- Sowing 40% Wild Flowers/60% Grasses is the most effective method of establishing wild flower meadows from seed, improving outcomes by a very large factor. The high quantity of flora seed compensates for such factors as poor sowing techniques, excessive grass growth due to weather or fertility problems and the biggest factor - the depradations of slugs and snails. It is expensive, but the results are a flora-rich meadow instead of a possibly scruffy grass area, devoid of any interesting flowers
- Sowing native wild flower seeds into prepared borders/area/strips (100% mixtures). Wild flowers can mix very well in the border with other herbaceous garden perennials.
- Planting wild flower plants (plugs). These are small plantlets, grown in compost at the nursery. They might be small, but they have well established root systems, have been hardened off and readily establish into most soil types.
- Laying a WILD FLOWER TURF containing fine grasses (eg JT10 Flora-Turf - see under Turf] This is by far the easiest method and the surest way of establishing a wild flora rich meadow All the normal problems and first year maintenance that is needed when growing from seed has been carried out for you and installation is simplicity itself This is the one cut per year option
Like anything else in life, the more thoroughly you prepare and clean the soil of weed competition the better the results. (See our Advice Centre)
We recommend the 2750L Canvas Bag hand Seeder for the accurate application of wild flower seed mixtures to larger areas
We recommend the following sowing and planting rates:-
- 20/80 Wild flower/Grass seed mixtures > 4.5 gms/m2
- 40/60 Wild Flower Grass seed mixtures > 4.0 gms/m2
- 100% Wild Flower Seed mixtures > 1 to 2gm/m2
- Wild Flower Plugs > 8 per m2 minimum
Jubilee Seeds & Turf offer a bespoke mixing service for specific sites. We can advise on the mixture or customers can SPECIFY what they want.
Our wild flower seed is 100% UK native and produced. We offer commercially produced grasses, improved range commercially produced grasses and TOTALLY NATIVE grass seed options
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