Wild Flower Range
Head Office: Bartholomews Agri Food Ltd Portfield Chichester West Sussex PO19 7TT Tel. +44 (0) 1243 784 171 Fax. +44 (0) 1243 775 747 Email. agri@bartholomews.co.uk Website. www.bartholomews.co.uk Golden Cross: Bartholomews Agri Food Ltd Deanland Road Golden Cross Near Hailsham East Sussex BN27 3RP Tel. +44 (0) 1825 872 697 Fax. +44 (0) 1825 872 850
Barts Flora 1 Cornfield Annuals
Wild flowers: 1 part 20%
Common Name
Species
% Height (cm)
Colour
Period
Corn Cockle Corn Flower
Agrostemma githago 30 60-120 Purple June Aug
Centaurea cyanus 20 30-60 Blue June Aug Corn Marigold Chrysanthemum segetum 15 15-45 Yellow June Oct Corn Poppy Papaver rhoeas 5 30-60 Red June Sept White Campion Silene alba 10 60-90 White May Sept Corn Chamomile Anthemis arvensis 20 15-50 White June July
Grasses: 4 parts 80%
Common Name
Species
% Height (cm)
Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
20 15-90
Crested Dogstail Sheeps Fescue Browntop Bent Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass
Cynosurus cristatus
24 40
5-75 5-60
Festuca ovina
Agrostis castellana
8
10-70
Poa pratensis
8
10-90
Pack size: 1kg Sowing rate: 5g/sq.m Sq.m coverage: 200sq.m
Barts Flora 2 Acid Soils
Wild flowers: 1 part 20%
Common Name
Species
% Height (cm)
Colour
Period
Betony
Stachys officinalis Lotus corniculatus Centaurea nigra
6 30-80 Purple June Sept 4 5-40 Yellow June Aug 7 30-80 Purple June Sept
Birdsfoot Trefoil Black Knapweed Common Cat’s Ear Fragrant Agrimony Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil Lady’s Bedstraw Meadow Buttercup Foxglove
Hypochaeris radicata 1 15-60 Yellow June Sept
Digitalis purpurea
4 50-150 Purple June Sept
Agrimonia procera 10 -
Yellow June Aug
Lotus uliginosus
4 50-60 Yellow June Aug
Gallium verum 10 50-80 Yellow June Sept
Ranunculus acris
10 30-100 Yellow May Sept
Ox-eye Daisy Ragged Robin Sheep Sorrel
Leucanthemum vulgare 5 20-100 White May Oct
Lychnis flos-cuculi Rumex acetosella Succisa pratensis Achillea ptarmica Rumex acetosa
4 30-80 Red May June 2 30-100 Pink May June 3 20-80 Lilac July Sept 4 20-150 White July Sept
Devils Bit Scabious
Sneezewort
Sorrel
4 30-100 Pink
May July
Tufted Vetch
Vicia cracca
10 100-200 Purple June Aug
Yarrow
Achillea millefolium 8 20-45 White June Oct
Yellow Rattle
Rhinanthus minor
4 15-40 Yellow May Aug
Grasses: 4 parts 80%
Common Name Browntop Bent
Species
% Height (cm)
Agrostis castellana
10 10-70
Sweet Vernal
Anthoxanthum odoratum 5 10-100
Crested Dogstail Wavy Hair-grass Sheeps Fescue
Cynosurus cristatus Deschampsia flexuosa
20 5-75 5 20-100 40 5-60 20 22-100
Festuca ovina
Slender Red Fescue
Festuca rubra ssp. pruinosa
Pack size: 1kg Sowing rate: 5g/sq.m Sq.m coverage: 200sq.m
Barts Flora 3 Damp Loamy Soils
Wild flowers: 1 part 20%
Common Name
Species
% Height (cm)
Colour
Period
Autumn Hawkbit
Leontodon autumnalis 2 5-15 Yellow Aug Oct
Betony
Stachys officinalis Lotus corniculatus Centaurea nigra Leontodon hispidus
5 30-80 Purple June Sept 5 5-40 Yellow June Aug 10 30-80 Purple June Sept 2 20-40 Yellow June Sept
Birdsfoot Trefoil Black Knapweed Rough Hawkbit
Goatsbeard Great Burnet
Tragopogon pratensis 4 30-60 Yellow June Sept
Sanguisorba officinalis 3 40-90
Red June Sept
Meadow Buttercup Meadow Cranesbill Meadow Vetchling
Ranunculus acris
10 30-100 Yellow May Sept
Geranium pratense 4 30-60 Blue June Sept
Lathyrus pratensis
2 80-100 Yellow May Aug
Ox-eye Daisy
Leucanthemum vulgare 6 20-100 White May Oct
Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris Rumex acetosa
14 5-20 Purple June Sept
Sorrel
4 30-100 Pink
May July
Tufted Vetch
Vicia cracca
12 100-200 Purple June Aug
Yarrow
Achillea millefolium 8 20-45 White June Oct
Yellow Rattle
Rhinanthus minor
9 15-40 Yellow May Aug
Grasses: 4 parts 80%
Common Name Browntop Bent Chewings Fescue Crested Dogstail Golden Oat Grass Meadow Foxtail Sheeps Fescue Slender Red Fescue
Species
% Height (cm)
Agrostis castellana
5 10-70
Festuca rubra ssp. commutata 13 20-90
Cynosurus cristatus Trisetum flavescens Alopecurus pratensis
16 5-75 11 20-80 7 30-120 16 5-60 20 22-100
Festuca ovina
Festuca rubra ssp. pruinosa
Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass
Poa pratensis
12 10-90
Pack size: 1kg Sowing rate: 5g/sq.m Sq.m coverage: 200sq.m
Barts Flora 4 Calcareous Soils
Wild flowers: 1 part 20%
Common Name
Species
% Height (cm)
Colour
Period
Betony
Stachys officinalis Lotus corniculatus Silene vulgaris Linaria vulgaris
6 30-80 Purple June Sept 7 5-40 Yellow June Aug
Birdsfoot Trefoil Bladder Campion Common Toadflax
4 80
White May Sept
4 50-90 Yellow June Oct Bulbous Buttercup Ranunculus bulbosus 9 15-35 Yellow May Aug Cowslip Primula veris 3 10-30 Yellow April June Greater Knapweed Centaurea scabiosa 5 50-90 Purple July Aug Hoary Plantain Plantago media 5 15-45 Pink May July Kidney Vetch Anthyllis vulneraria 6 15-30 Yellow May Aug Lady’s Bedstraw Gallium verum 6 50-80 Yellow June Sept Meadow Buttercup Ranunculus acris 7 30-100 Yellow May Sept Ox-eye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare 4 20-100 White May Oct Small Scabious Scabiosa columbaria 4 20-45 Lilac June Aug Tufted Vetch Vicia cracca 10 100-200 Purple June Aug Wild Carrot Daucus carota 8 30-100 White June Sept Wild Marjoram Origanum vulgare 2 30-60 Purple July Sept Wild Mignonette Reseda lutea 4 20-50 Yellow June Aug Dropwort Filipendula vulgaris 4 100 White June Aug Dark Mullein Verbascum nigrum 2 120 Yellow June Oct
Common Name Browntop Bent Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass Crested Dogstail Golden Oat Grass Quaking Grass Sheeps Fescue Slender Red Fescue Grasses: 4 parts 80%
Species
% Height (cm) 5 10-70 19 10-90 17 5-75 7 20-80 1 15-75 20 5-60 23 22-100 5 10-50 3 40-120
Agrostis castellana
Poa pratensis
Cynosurus cristatus Trisetum flavescens
Briza media Festuca ovina
Festuca rubra ssp. pruinosa
Smaller Cat’s-tail Upright Brome
Phleum bertolonii Bromopsis erecta
Pack size: 1kg Sowing rate: 5g/sq.m Sq.m coverage: 200sq.m
Barts Flora 5 Wet Loamy Soils
Wild flowers: 1 part 20%
Common Name
Species
% Height (cm)
Colour
Period
Betony
Stachys officinalis Centaurea nigra Lycopus europaeus Succisa pratensis Lotus uliginosus Erigeron acer Stachys palustris Ranunculus acris
8 30-80 Purple June Sept 6 30-80 Purple June Sept 3 30-100 White July Sept 4 20-80 Lilac July Sept 5 5-15 Yellow Aug Oct
Black Knapweed
Gipsywort
Devil’s Bit Scabious Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil Hemp Agrimony Marsh Woundwort Meadow Buttercup
4 100
White July Sept
5 70-90 Purple July Sept 12 30-100 Yellow May Sept
Meadow Rue Meadowsweet Ox-eye Daisy
Thalictrum flavum 6 80
Yellow July Aug
Filipendula ulmaria 6 50-150 White June Aug Leucanthemum vulgare 7 20-100 White May Oct
Purple Loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria Lychnis flos-cuculi Achillea ptarmica
4 5-100 Purple July Sept
Ragged Robin
3 30-80
Red May June
Sneezewort
4 20-150 White July Sept
Square Stemmed St. John’s Wort
Hypericum tetrapterum 4 30-60 Yellow July Sept
Yellow Flag-iris Yellow Rattle
Iris pseudacorus Rhinanthus minor
6 60-120 Yellow May July 13 15-40 Yellow May Aug
Common Name Browntop Bent Chewings Fescue Common Sedge Crested Dogstail Meadow Barley Meadow Foxtail Pendulas Sedge Sheeps Fescue Slender Red Fescue Grasses: 4 parts 80%
Species
% Height (cm)
Agrostis castellana
4 10-70
Festuca rubra ssp. commutata 12 20-90
Carex nigra
3
300
Cynosurus cristatus Hordeum secalinum Alopecurus pratensis
15 5-75 5 20-80 6 30-120 16 5-60 20 22-100 11 10-90 2 180
Carex pendula Festuca ovina
Festuca rubra ssp. pruinosa
Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass Sweet Vernal Tufted Hair-grass
Poa pratensis
Anthoxanthum odoratum 5 10-100
Deschampsia cespitosa
1
-
Pack size: 1kg Sowing rate: 5g/sq.m Sq.m coverage: 200sq.m
Barts Flora 6 Dry Loamy Soils
Wild flowers: 1 part 20%
Common Name Autumn Hawkbit Birdsfoot Trefoil Black Knapweed Bladder Campion
Species
% Height (cm)
Colour
Period
Leontodon autumnalis 3 5-15 Yellow Aug Oct
Lotus corniculatus Centaurea nigra
7 5-40 Yellow June Aug 10 30-80 Purple June Sept
Silene vulgaris White May Sept Bulbous Buttercup Ranunculus bulbosus 9 15-35 Yellow May Sept Common Agrimony Agrimonia eupatoria 8 30-60 Yellow July Sept Common Toadflax Linaria vulgaris 6 50-90 Yellow June Oct Cowslip Primula veris 4 10-30 Yellow April June Field Scabious Knautia arvensis 8 30-90 Lilac July Sept Lady’s Bedstraw Gallium verum 6 50-80 Yellow June Sept Musk Mallow Malva moschata 8 20-80 Pink July Oct Ox-eye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare 7 20-100 White May Oct Salad Burnet Sanguisorba minor 5 30 Yellow May Aug Wild Carrot Daucus carota 6 30-100 White June Sept Yarrow Achillea millefolium 3 20-45 White June Oct Yellow Rattle Rhinanthus minor 6 15-40 Yellow May Aug 4 80
Grasses: 4 parts 80%
Common Name Browntop Bent
Species
% Height (cm)
Agrostis castellana
5 10-70
Chewings Fescue Crested Dogstail Golden Oat Grass Sheeps Fescue Slender Red Fescue
Festuca rubra ssp. commutata 15 20-90
Cynosurus cristatus Trisetum flavescens
16 5-75 7 20-80 16 5-60 20 22-100 7 10-50
Festuca ovina
Festuca rubra ssp. pruinosa
Smaller Cat’s-tail Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass
Phleum bertolonii
Poa pratensis
14 10-90
Pack size: 1kg Sowing rate: 5g/sq.m Sq.m coverage: 200sq.m
Barts Flora 7 Hedgerow & Light Shade
Wild flowers: 1 part 20%
Common Name
Species
% Height (cm)
Colour
Period
Betony
Stachys officinalis Aquilegia vulgaris Digitalis purpurea Verbascum thapsus Galium mollugo Alliaria petiolata Stachys sylvatica Malva moschata
7 30-80 Purple June Sept 5 100 Purple May June 6 50-150 Purple June Sept 4 40-200 Yellow July Sept
Columbine Foxglove
Greater Mullein
Hairy St. John’s Wort
Hypericum hirsutum 5 40-100 Yellow July Aug
Hedge Bedstraw
8 100
White June Sept
Hedge Garlic
10 90-125 White May Aug 8 30-100 Red July Aug
Hedge Woundwort
Musk Mallow Nettle Leaved Bellflower
4 60
Pink
May Aug
Campanula trachelium 4 80
Blue July Sept
Common St. John’s Wort
Hypericum perforatum 4 30-120 Yellow June Sept
Red Campion
Silene dioica
11 50-80 Red May Nov 11 5-20 Purple June Sept 6 80-100 White July Aug
Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris Torilis japonica
Upright Hedge Parsley
Wood Avens Wood Sage
Geum urbanum 3 40-60 Yellow May June Teucrium scorodonia 4 20-30 Yellow July Sept
Grasses: 4 parts 80%
Common Name Browntop Bent Chewings Fescue Crested Dogstail Sheeps Fescue Slender Red Fescue Tufted Hair-grass Wood Meadow Grass
Species
% Height (cm)
Agrostis castellana
5 10-70
Festuca rubra ssp. commutata 15 20-90
Cynosurus cristatus
20 5-75 20 5-60 15 22-100 5 20-200 20 15-90
Festuca ovina
Festuca rubra ssp. pruinosa Deschampsia cespitosa
Poa nemoralis
Pack size: 1kg Sowing rate: 5g/sq.m Sq.m coverage: 200sq.m
Barts Flora 8 Legacy (General Purpose, Country Meadow)
Wild flowers: 1 part 20%
Common Name
Species
% Height (cm)
Colour
Period
Birdsfoot Trefoil Black Knapweed Black Medick Common Vetch Meadow Buttercup
Lotus corniculatus Centaurea nigra Medicago lupulina
5 5-15 Yellow Aug Oct 8 30-80 Purple June Sept 5 15-50 Yellow May Sept 5 20-45 Purple April Sept 7 30-100 Yellow May Sept
Vicia sativa
Ranunculus acris Malva moschata
Musk Mallow Ox-eye Daisy
4 60
Pink
May Aug
Leucanthemum vulgare 12 20-100 White May Oct Plantago lanceolata 12 5-50 Brown May Sept
Ribwort Plantain Red Campion
Silene dioica
8 80
Red May Sept
Selfheal
Prunella vulgaris
13 5-20 Purple June Sept 15 30-100 White May Sept
White Campion
Silene alba
Yarrow
Achillea millefolium 6 20-45 White June Oct
Grasses: 4 parts 80%
Common Name Browntop Bent
Species
% Height (cm) 7 10-70 18.5 15-90 21 5-75 28.5 30-120
Agrostis castellana
Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
Crested Dogstail Meadow Fescue Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass
Cynosurus cristatus Festuca pratensis
Poa pratensis
25 10-90
Pack size: 1kg Sowing rate: 5g/sq.m Sq.m coverage: 200sq.m
Barts Flora 9 Heritage
Wild flowers: 1 part 10%
Common Name
Species
% Height (cm)
Colour
Period
Agrimony
Agrimonia eupatoria 4.3 50-80
Yellow June Aug
Betony
Stachys officinalis Lotus corniculatus Centaurea nigra
2.05 30-80 Purple June Sept
Birdsfoot Trefoil Black Knapweed Common Vetch Corn Cockle Corn Feverfew
2.05 5-40
Yellow June Aug
4.05 30-80 Purple June Sept 8.8 20-45 Purple April Sept 9 60-120 Purple June Aug
Vicia sativa
Agrostemma githago
Matricaria perforata 4.05 10-80
White April Nov Yellow April June
Cowslip
Primula veris Papaver rhoeas Digitalis purpurea Galium mollugo Plantago media Sanguisorba minor Ranunculus acris Malva moschata
1.25 10-30 2.25 30-60
Field Poppy
Red
June Sept
Foxglove
0.7 50-150 Purple June Sept
Hedge Bedstraw Hoary Plantain Lady’s Bedstraw Meadow Buttercup Musk Mallow Ox-eye Daisy Ragged Robin St. John’s Wort Red Campion Ribwort Plantain Salad Burnet
2.6 100 1.5 15-45
White June Sept
Pink
May July
Gallium verum 2.6 50-80
Yellow June Sept Yellow May Sept
6.1 20-90
4.05 30-100 Yellow May Sept
4.05 20-80
Pink
July Oct May Oct May June
Leucanthemum vulgare 2 20-100 White
Lychnis flos-cuculi
0.5 30-80
Red
Hypericum perforatum 0.35 30-100 Yellow June Sept
Silene dioica
2.55 60-80 5.1 5-50 9 50-60 2.55 5-20
Red
May Nov
Plantago lanceolata Onobrychis viciifolia Prunella vulgaris Daucus carota Salvia verbenaca Pastinaca sativa
Brown May Sept
Sainfoin Selfheal
Pink
May Aug
Purple June Sept
Wild Carrot Wild Clary Wild Parsnip
1.7 30-100 White June Sept
5.1 80 5.1 150
Blue
May Sept
Yellow May Sept
White Campion Wood Avens
Silene alba
3.05 30-100 White May Sept
Geum urbanum 2.6 40-60 Achillea millefolium 1 20-45
Yellow May June White June Oct
Yarrow
Grasses: 9 parts 90%
Common Name Sweet Vernal Grass Meadow Foxtail Crested Dogstail Slender Red Fescue Browntop Bent Sheeps Fescue Chewings Fescue Wood Meadow Grass
Species
% Height (cm)
Anthoxanthum odoratum Alopecurus pratensis
1
10-100
2.8 30-120 8.75 5-75 15.08 22-100 9.37 10-70 8 10-90
Cynosurus cristatus
Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass
Poa pratensis
Festuca rubra litoralis Agrostis castellana
Festuca ovina
20 20
5-60
Festuca rubra commutata
20-90 15-90 10-60 20-80
Poa nemoralis
7 4 2 2
Saltmarsh Grass Yellow Oat Grass
Puccinellia distans Trisetum flavescens
Rough Stalked Meadow Grass
Poa trivialis
20-100
Pack size: 1kg Sowing rate: 5g/sq.m Sq.m coverage: 200sq.m
Barts Flora 10 Country Meadow (General Purpose Plus Annuals)
Wild flowers: 1 part 10%
Common Name
Species
% Height (cm)
Colour
Period
Birdsfoot Trefoil Black Knapweed Black Medick Common Vetch
Lotus corniculatus Centaurea nigra Medicago lupulina
2 5-15 Yellow Aug Oct 8 30-80 Purple June Sept 4 15-50 Yellow May Sept 5 20-45 Purple April Sept
Vicia sativa
Corn Cockle Agrostemma githago 8 60-120 Purple June Aug Corn Marigold Chrysanthemum segetum 7 15-45 Yellow June Oct Corn Poppy Papaver rhoeas 3 30-60 Red June Sept Meadow Buttercup Ranunculus acris 5 30-100 Yellow May Sept Musk Mallow Malva moschata 4 60 Pink May Aug Ox-eye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare 12 20-100 White May Oct Ribwort Plantain Plantago lanceolata 10 5-50 Brown May Sept Red Campion Silene dioica 5 30-100 Red May Sept Selfheal Prunella vulgaris 13 5-20 Purple June Sept White Campion Silene alba 10 30-100 White May Sept Yarrow Achillea millefolium 4 20-45 White June Oct
Grasses: 9 parts 90%
Common Name Browntop Bent
Species
% Height (cm) 7 10-70 18.5 15-90 21 5-75 28.5 30-120
Agrostis castellana
Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
Crested Dogstail Meadow Fescue
Cynosurus cristatus Festuca pratensis
Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass
Poa pratensis
25
10-90
Pack size: 1kg Sowing rate: 5g/sq.m Sq.m coverage: 200sq.m
Barts Flora 11 Woodland & Heavy Shade Wild flowers: 1 part 20%
Common Name
Species
% Height (cm)
Colour
Period
Bluebell
Hyacinthoides non-scripta 12 50
Blue April June
Columbine
Aquilegia vulgaris
4 100 Purple May June
Figwort
Scrophularia nodosa 3 50-85
Red June Sept
Foxglove
Digitalis purpurea Stellaria holostea
8 50-150 Purple June Sept
Greater Stitchwort Hairy St. John’s Wort
2 50
White April Jun
Hypericum hirsutum 6 40-100 Yellow July Aug
Hedge Bedstraw Hemp Agrimony Meadowsweet Nettle-Leaved Bellflower
Galium mollugo Erigeron acer
7 100 3 100
White June Sept White July Sept
Filipendula ulmaria 6 50-150 White June Aug
Campanula trachelium 4 80
Blue July Sept
Red Campion Wood Avens Wild Angelica Wood Sage Wood Vetch
Silene dioica
13 50-80
Red May Nov
Geum urbanum 4 50-70 Yellow June Aug
Angelica sylvestris 10 150
White July Sept
Teucrium scorodonia 6 20-30 Yellow July Sept
Vicia sylvatica
12 130
Pink June Aug
Grasses: 4 parts 80%
Common Name Browntop Bent
Species
% Height (cm)
Agrostis castellana
5 10-70
Chewings Fescue
Festuca rubra ssp. commutata 15 20-60
Crested Dogstail Sheeps Fescue
Cynosurus cristatus
20 5-75 20 5-60
Festuca ovina
Slender Red Fescue
Festuca rubra ssp. pruinosa
15 22-100
Tufted Hair-grass
Deschampsia cespitosa
5 20-200 20 15-90
Wood Meadow Grass
Poa nemoralis
Pack size: 1kg Sowing rate: 5g/sq.m Sq.m coverage: 200sq.m
Barts Flora 12 Water Margin & Pond Edges
Wild flowers: 1 part 20%
Common Name Period Common Fleabane Pulicaria dysenterica 2 30-80 Yellow July Sept Gipsy Wort Lycopus europeus 6 100 White June Sept Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil Lotus uliginosus 6 5-15 Yellow Aug Sept Hemp Agrimony Erigeron acer 4 100 White July Sept Marsh Marigold Caltha palustris 2 100 Pink July Sept Marsh Woundwort Stachys palustris 9 70-90 Purple July Sept Meadow Rue Thalictrum flavum 8 80 Yellow July Aug Meadowsweet Filipendula ulmaria 15 5-150 White June Aug Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria 5 50-100 Purple July Sept Ragged Robin Lychnis flos-cuculi 9 30-80 Red May June Sneezewort Achillea ptarmica 7 20-150 White July Sept Square Stemmed St. John’s Wort Hypericum tetrapterum 6 30-60 Yellow July Sept Water Avens Geum rivale 3 60 Pink April July Yellow Flag-iris Iris pseudacorus 18 15-40 Yellow May Aug Species % Height (cm) Colour
Grasses: 4 parts 80%
Common Name Browntop Bent Common Sedge Crested Dogstail Meadow Foxtail Pendulas Sedge Rough Stalked Meadow Grass Sheeps Fescue
Species
% Height (cm) 5 10-70 0.5 300 20 5-75 10 30-120 0.5 180
Agrostis castellana
Carex nigra
Cynosurus cristatus Alopecurus pratensis
Carex pendula
Poa trivialis
7 20-100
Festuca ovina
38 5-60
Sweet Vernal
Anthoxanthum odoratum 4 10-100
Tufted Hair-grass
Deschampsia cespitosa
15 20-200
Pack size: 1kg Sowing rate: 5g/sq.m Sq.m coverage: 200sq.m
Barts Flora 110 (Economy General Purpose Plus Annuals)
Wild flowers: 1 part 5%
Common Name
Species
% Height (cm)
Colour
Period
Birdsfoot Trefoil Black Knapweed Black Medick Common Vetch
Lotus corniculatus Centaurea nigra
3 5-15 Yellow Aug Oct 8 30-80 Purple June Sept
Medicago lupulina 4 15-50 Yellow May Sept
Vicia sativa
5 20-45 Purple April Sept
Corn Cockle Agrostemma githago 7 60-120 Purple June Aug Corn Marigold Chrysanthemum segetum 7 15-45 Yellow June Oct Corn Poppy Papaver rhoeas 3 30-60 Red June Sept Meadow Buttercup Ranunculus acris 5 30-100 Yellow May Sept Musk Mallow Malva moschata 4 60 Pink May Aug Ox-eye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare 12 20-100 White May Oct Ribwort Plantain Plantago lanceolata 10 5-50 Brown May Sept Red Campion Silene dioica 5 30-100 Red May Sept Selfheal Prunella vulgaris 13 5-20 Purple June Sept White Campion Silene alba 10 30-100 White May Sept Yarrow Achillea millefolium 4 20-45 White June Oct
Grasses: 19 parts 95%
Common Name Browntop Bent
Species
% Height (cm) 7 10-70 18.5 15-90 21 5-75 28.5 30-120
Agrostis castellana
Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
Crested Dogstail Meadow Fescue Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass
Cynosurus cristatus Festuca pratensis
Poa pratensis
25 10-90
Pack size: 1kg Sowing rate: 5g/sq.m Sq.m coverage: 200sq.m
WILD FLORA MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES 2012
MIXTURE SELECTION It is important that the correct mixture is selected to coincide with the soil type and drainage characteristics of each site. SITE PREPARATION The aim is to produce a firm, weed-free tilth to promote healthy germination. Subsoils often provide weed-free areas with a low nutrient status and are therefore suitable for wild flora planting. It is occasionally necessary to remove the topsoil in areas of high fertility (this can be sold to raise revenue) as these soils tend to promote the growth of more vigorous grasses and pernicious weeds.To remove docks, thistles, nettles and weed grasses, the site should be treated with a systemic herbicide (following the manufacturer’s instructions) prior to seed bed cultivation. SUMMARY a. Cultivate site and allow to remain fallow, if practical b. Treat with herbicide or SOWING Sowing can take place throughout most of the year, providing a good tilth can be prepared. However, the months of March/April and August/September are generally the most suitable. a. Mix seed – regularly mix to ensure even species distribution b. Drill/broadcast – calibrate sowing device c. Rate – 5 g/m 2 mixtures with grass or 0.5 – 1.0 g/m 2 pure wild flower mixtures d. Sand – bulk up small seeding rates with 4 parts silica sand to one part seed by weight e. Raking/harrowing – mix seed into soil (depth approx 0.5cm) f. Ring roller – use Cambridge roller to firm seed bed WILD FLOWER FIRST YEAR MAINTENANCE The requirement in the first year is to control weeds and reduce competition from grasses. Cut the sward to a height of 5cm every two months or when the sward reaches 15cm. Remove all cut material to avoid smothering the sward. Where persistent weeds are a problem, spot treat with herbicide or dig-out. FUTURE MAINTENANCE The sward should be well established after the first 12 months and contain a diverse range of species. Cut to 7.5cm during March/April and remove cuttings. The second cut should take place at the end of the flowering season during August/September (the flowering period may alter slightly according to climatic conditions). Remove all cuttings or use as hay. The site may require further cuts in the autumn period to remove untidy growth in an extended growing season. MAINTENANCE SUMMARY FIRST YEAR First cut 5cm March/April (spring seeding 1 st cut in May) Cut every 2 months or when sward reaches 15cm Final cut September/October Remove all cuttings FUTURE YEARS First cut 7.5cm March/April (if necessary) Second cut 7.5cm August/October Remove all cuttings CORNFIELD ANNUALS Make the first cut in early March and a second cut once the flowering period is over – September/October. Harrow autumn or spring to regenerate annuals. c. Remove topsoil d. Cultivate to 10cm e. Create a surface tilth
For further information please contact us on:- Tel: 01243 784 171 Fax: 01243 775 747 Email: agri@bartholomews.co.uk
Golden Cross Office: Tel: 01825 872 697 Email: goldencross@bartholomews.co.uk
Website: www.bartholomews.co.uk
We aim to supply the mixtures as per specifications above. Occasionally suppliers of some species and varieties run out and it may be necessary to subtitute or increase percentages accordingly.
Head Office: Bartholomews Agri Food Ltd Portfield Chichester West Sussex PO19 7TT Tel. +44 (0) 1243 784 171 Fax. +44 (0) 1243 775 747 Email. agri@bartholomews.co.uk Website. www.bartholomews.co.uk Golden Cross: Bartholomews Agri Food Ltd Deanland Road Golden Cross Near Hailsham East Sussex BN27 3RP Tel. +44 (0) 1825 872 697 Fax. +44 (0) 1825 872 850
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