RE8 Coastal Reclamation creates habitats commonly seen in coastal areas such as the top of estuary banks and behind semi dune areas. This mixture will tolerate occasional flooding during high tides. 

Applications

  • Coastal areas

  • Free-draining soils

  • Tidal areas

  • Salt marshes

Mixture

0.8%

Lady's Bedstraw

(Galium verum)

1.0%

Yellow Flag

(Iris pseudacorus)

2.2%

Birdsfoot Trefoil

(Lotus corniculatus)

4.9%

Ribwort Plantain

(Plantago lanceolata)

1.0%

Greater Plantain

(Plantago major)

2.5%

Red Clover

(Trifolium pratense)

2.5%

White Clover

(Trifolium repens)

3.0%

Dandelion

(Taraxacum officinale)

1.0%

Creeping Thistle

(Cirsium arvense)

0.1%

Dog Violet

(Viola riviniana)

1.0%

Sheeps Sorrel

(Rumex acetosella)

30.0%

Tall Fescue

(Festuca arundinacea)

20.0%

Slender Creeping Red Fescue

(Festuca rubra litoralis)

10.0%

Crested Dogstail

(Cynosurus cristatus)

9.0%

Meadow Fescue

(Festuca pratensis)

5.0%

Yorkshire Fog

(Holcus lanatus)

3.5%

Creeping Bent

(Agrostis stolonifera)

2.5%

Tall Oat-grass

(Arrhenatherum elatius)

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

Autumn Sown

Year One

First cut early July, then monthly during August, September and October.

Cutting height 70 -100 mm.

Thereafter

Cut from mid-July to early September. This can be done as one cut but preferably, 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.

Spring sown

Year One

First cut mid-September - 1st October and collect the arisings,  then monthly during August, September and October.

Cutting height 70 -100 mm.

Thereafter

Cut from mid-July to early September. This can be done as one cut but preferably, 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.