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MM Meadow-mixes

MM00                Origin: Native Irish Origin, Wildflower Seed Mixture.

On This Page:
  • About Meadow Mixture MM00 and Product Range:
  • Species List & Mixture Specification:
  • Sowing Guide & Growing Instructions:
  • What to Expect & Maintenance Tips:

Content Includes

  • B2B Product Statement: Supply-Chain Specification, About Exacting Conditions
  • ‘World’s first’ three year guarantee to grow (T&c’s apply)
  • Product Declarations: VSME, Quality Assurance, Environmental Impact, Standards for Green Deal,
  • Breeam, Reach, Health & Safety, Legal, SVHC Disclaimer and More

Mixture Specifications & General Product Description:

Meadow Mixture MM04 is a stunning wildflower seed mixture ideal for sunny dry well drained sites with soils that are mostly made up of sand, gravel, glacial till or any open, course textured material, especially one that is a ‘light-easy-to-dig-soil’.

Easy to grow, establish and maintain, blended with reliable species and very colourfull, our Meadow Mixture Range is based on soil type, since 1998 we have has set the standard for the landscape trade. It still humors us that new trade entrants don’t understand how ecologies develop and worse pass on inaccurate expectations to their customers. Lets face it, to establish a meadow it take 3 to 5 years at least. year two and sometimes the third year, as we say, time and time again, are not as flowery, but should be full of young plants that will flower profusely.

Seed per Gram: 700 | 1.5g Covers: 1 square Metre, up to 2 sq metres if totally weed free,

Moisture Level: Always Wet | Winter Flooded | Occasionally Flooded | Moist | Normal | Dry | Extreme Dryness

Suitability: Suitable for ‘Summer dry’ to ‘all year moist’ and even ‘short-term flooded’ conditions. Ideal for heavy soils that stick to your shoes when wet

Species List

Long-term Perennials:  Birdsfoot Trefoil, Cowslip, Field Scabious, Lady’s Bedstraw, Lesser Knapweed, Marjoram, Red Clover, Ribwort Plantain, Rough Hawksbit, Selfheal, Saint Johnswort, White Campion, Yarrow and a pinch of wild white clover, [Long-term Perennials don’t often flower until 3rd year]

Short-term Perennials: Ox-eye Daisy, Red Campion,  Black Medic, Kidney Vetch, Sorrel,

Persistent Meadow-Annuals:  Yellow Rattle, Eyebright (Red Bartsia for compact soils)

Biennials: Mullein, Wild Carrot Annual Nurse-Crop: Cornfield Annuals include Corn Marigold, Corn Poppy, Cornflower and Scentless Mayweed,

Also: Field Cranesbill, (annual Corncockle included to add ‘support’ for the annual species). See PDF’s for Xenophytes

Adding commercial grass seed is not recommended.  This mixture contains <1% native ‘host’ grass seed. If adding grass seed please Contact Us

©Design By Nature: Wildflower Meadow Mixture: Native origin, Irish sourced and farm grown from wild stocks:

Meadow Mixture mm04  MM04 Wildflower Seed Mixture for Sandy Soil 

Seed Mixture Specification:

Seeds Per Gram: 1300 – 1800
Pollinator Friendly: Yes
Easy to grow: Yes
Nature Services: Pollinator plant. Acts as an Annual Nurse Crop
Life Cycle: Hardy annual, germinates, flowers and seeds all in one growing season, then sets seed and dies
Suitability: Suitable for ‘Summer dry’ soils. Will grow on poor fertility soil, but to lower height
Growth Height: 0 to 0 cm, depends on competition, soil fertility sowing time and weather.

Sowing & Growing Guide:

Sowing Rate: 0.5 grams per square meter

Preparation: Create a firm, fine tilth on the seedbed surface. scatter and press down, no need to cover. Can be covered with 1 mm fine grit, Poppy likes a light soil

Timing: Sow Autumn or Spring. best not sown July or August as plants try to flower in current year.
Method: Cast by hand or mini seed spreader.

Aftercare: Post-sowing, Roll if dry or rake the surface, just once. If open grown outside, no watering required, if in trays, flats pots, raised beds or window boxes, water weekly.

Product Storage : Keep Cool, <4°C, <20 in transit. Do not store in direct sunlight.
Keep Dry, remove storage lid, if moisture is present, air dry slowly

What to Expect

Viability: 30% germination after sowing, +30% after 10 months, +10% each optimum time thereafter

What to expect: Fast growing, rich yellow multi-flowering plant, hoverflies love this species.
Seasonal Colour: Early Spring, Springtime, Early summer, high summer, Late Summer, Autumn

Wintergreen: No, dies off, the dead stems make great standing winter cover, and as bugs live in the seed heads, when the seeds are shed, the birds can eat the bugs
Winter Colour: Birds and other colourful wildlife will visit in winter

Legal & Competent Authorities:

1) Biodiversity: Competent Authority: NPWS, National Parks and Wildlife Service. c/o D.O.E.
2) DAFM, Dept’ Agriculture, Food and Marine. Plant Health Division and Seed Testing Station.

Legal status of Product Supplier: Sandro Cafolla t/a Design By Nature (DBN IRE) is DAFM Registered Seed House No: IECS-44, as a Native Sourced Irish Wildflower Seed Grower, Harvester, Supplier, Processor, Mixer and Packer.

Source of Materials: Landraces Collected from first Generation Seed in the wild. We then ‘grow on’ as seed crops on our many Farms (almost nationwide) and in our Nursery, and then the seed crop is raised and second generation seed is harvested for sale/use.

E.U. Commission Directive: CONSERVATION GRADE DEROGATION.

E.U. Commission Directive:

CONSERVATION GRADE DEROGATION.

This mixture contains Landrace species which do not comply.

Re: Where components of seed mixtures do not comply with some of the general requirements for marketing provided for in Directive 66/401/EEC, it is necessary to apply certain derogations.

DBN is limited in the amount of native grass species we can supply with our 100% pure wildflower seed mixtures

Tarrif Codes:

Tarrif Codes: Landraces
Area: Ireland – IE Goods nomenclature code: 1209918010 – derogation. Measure type: gm/kg
nomenclature code: 1209300000 – derogation Measure type: gm/kg
In packages which are sealed, marked and labelled/documented
YES, Documents attached or incerted. waterproof pack? on request.

Maintenance:

Tolerance of Cutting: 1st year None, 2nd year Low, 3rd year High.

Cutting Times: One cut, late July to Oct’, if short use 3 cuts every 6 -8 weeks or more.

also: For pollinators (short-cut the meadow front {10cm} to keep flowering)
To Protect bird life (for seeds leave a section uncut over winter)

First Year: The annuals supplied in this mixture will flower profusely, provided they are sown before June. This mixture requires one cut when finished flowering. If growth is heavy, its best to cut and clear at the end of year. If sparse, usually on poor soil, no cutting required

Second Year: In the second year the few biennials will flower along side the short term perennials. If this mixture was not cut in first year, cut and remove foliage in early Spring. Cut again in July, August or September, depending on when flowers finish or the level of weeds that emerge.

Third Year Onward: In the third year this meadow mixture will seem to have less flora than the first and second year. Why?
The perennial species are still young, many will only have germinated in the second season, so flowers will be sparse. However, there should be identifiable foliage and some flowers. If not contact us.
If the native grass seeds present in your soil grow vigorously, the meadow will require two or three cuts, the first cut in Spring (April) and the second cut in June/ July, even if the flowers are blooming and again in August September, the meadow can again be cut in winter if the grasses are still growing strong.

Specific Cutting Time/requirement: As this meadow will take time to establish, from the 2nd year on, as with the first year, one cut a year will do. Four of the species in this mixture on loam soil will not compete with uncut tall grasses, so to encourage growth and not flowers again in 2nd year, it could be cut in early spring and surprisingly again just as high summer ends (Mid-July), cut even if in full flower or just after flowers fade and then again in September when the last blooms fade. This method will insure the long-term perennials get a chance to grow at the expense on rudimentary weeds.

Biodiversity & Ecology

Native Sourced Irish Origin Wildflower Seed mixture, farm grown from wild species that we saved and distributed across Ireland since 1987

Biodiversity: This mixture when properly established on the conditions it was intended for will produce an ecology that provides ecosystem services and sequester carbon. In time, this mixture will improve the soil and attract and support Biodiversity within 150m range up to 1.5km away (via actions of birds).  Our customers have observed a wide range of mammals and bugs that visit our meadow mixtures.

In particular: When established, larger scale plots of over 500 sq M, will form an important part of the local food chain as there are species present, that should be naturally present on the specif soil type.

Garden Biodiversity: This Species in Gardens is both colourful and attracts bees.

Design By Nature: Handing on our Heritage

Sandro Says:

General Advice:

Please be patient, many seeds in this mixture will germinate after winter, then need natural cold treatment (vernalisation)

Self Seedling: Yes | Spreads by roots:  No

Suggested planting: Ideal for gravel driveways and shallow light soils, old horse arenas, disused quarry, inland coastal erosion (back dune),

Will bloom if sown before June. The flower for up to 8 weeks and then set seed and die off, not to re-grow in grass or meadows, as they cannot compete.

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Specific advice: Always remove cuttings to reduce soil fertility, which benefits wildflower growth over aggressive grasses. Never leave cutting to shed seed, as most seed has already fallen, cutting will knock more and if it rains lifting cutting is problematic.

 

Seed Storage

Long-term Seed Storage: Keep dry and cool and out of drafts and air changes, check and remove Moth casts (as we do not use pesticides or any chemicals).  We sieve our stored seeds and remove moths regularly. Please check seeds monthly in-case of molds which develop.

Stored Viability: Every 6 months 10-25% of a seed mixture looses viability. This effects 30% of the single species in this mixture and also a percent of each species. 20% of species in most mixtures improve germination with storage (seed trigger), 5 species loss all viability within 12 months. We say ‘Sow don’t store, leave that to US’

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Conservation, Our Living Genebank and Imithe
Conservation:Origin: Native Sourced Irish Wildflowers, farm grown from wild stock species that we saved and distributed across Ireland since 1987.
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