WFG18 Butterfly & Honey Bee wildflower seed mixture is designed to attract and benefit bees and butterflies, featuring a blend of native and non-native perennials, annuals and grasses. It offers flowers from April to September, with peak blooms in May-July.

The high percentage of annuals ensures a display in the first year if sown in March or April. When cutting in late summer, leave one-third uncut for overwintering invertebrates, rotating the area annually.

The mix contains 80% grasses and 20% flowers, including Evening Primrose, Red Clover, Teasel and Coreopsis.

Mixture

2.0%

Red Clover

(Trifolium Pratense)

1.8%

Oxeye Daisy

(Leucanthemum vulgare) 

1.1%

Purple Coneflower

(Echinacea)

0.2%

Greater Knapweed

(Centaurea scabiosa)

0.2%

Garlic Mustard

(Alliara petiolata)

1.0%

Oxeye Sunflower

(Heliopsis helianthoides)

1.1%

Yarrow

(Achillea millefolium)

1.0%

Cornflower

(Centaurea cyanus)

0.1%

Cow Parsley

(Anthriscus sylvestris)

0.1%

Common Vetch

(Vicia sativa)

0.1%

F. Teasel

(Dipsacus fullonum)

0.1%

Foxglove

(Digitalis purpurea)

0.5%

Cosmos "Sensation Mix"

(Cosmos "sensation mix")

0.8%

Hyssop

(Hyssopus officinalis)

0.4%

Musk Mallow

(Malva moschata)

0.4%

Dandelion

(Taraxacum officinale)

0.5%

Dotted Gayfeather

(Liatris punctata)

1.5%

Lance-leaved Coreopsis

(Coreopsis lanceolata)

0.7%

Rudbeckia

(Rudbeckia Hirta)

2.4%

Corn Poppy

(Papaver rhoeas)

1.0%

White Clover

(Trifolium repens)

1.0%

Leo (Birdsfoot Trefoil)

(Lotus corniculatus)

1.0%

Evening Primrose

(Oenothera biennis)

1.0%

Phacelia

(Phacelia tanacetifolia)

30.0%

Sheeps Fescue

(Festuca ovina)

20.0%

Slender Creeping Red Fescue

(Festuca rubra litoralis)

24.0%

Chewings Fescue

(Fesctuca rubra commutata)

5.0%

Browntop Bent

(Agrostis Capillaris)

1.0%

Golden Oat Grass

(Trisetum flavescens)

Usage guide

Sowing Rate

5 g/m2

Sowing Time

March - October

Sowing Depth

10 mm

Sowing Instructions

Create a fine friable seedbed down to 150 mm in depth. Carry out two equal sowings at right angles to each other and diagonally to main axis. Broadcast manually or use seed drill, rake level and roll. Ensure good seed to soil contact.

Maintenance

 

First cut mid-September - 1st October and colelct the arisings. 

Cutting height 70 -100 mm

 

Cut from mid-August to early October. This can be done as one cut but preferable, and if the meadow is big enough, you will cut it in sections leaving a week to a fortnight between cuts. Ensure you collect the arisings. If the meadow is large enough, consider allowing up to a fifth to stand uncut through the winter and cut down and remove the clippings in March the following year, this will provide a habitat for invertebrates and some vertebrates over the winter. Rotate this area so a different section is left uncut each year. This more closely replicates the grazing of animals which would leave some small areas not grazed.

If possible, and with the obvious exception of areas you are leaving uncut, lightly mow the sward down to 70 -100 mm as required throughout the winter months until March and collect the clippings.