Wildflower mixture designed for heavy clay soils prone to waterlogging.
Clay soils can present their own difficulties, warming up slowly in spring and drying out in summer. They can support a very diverse and intersting plant population that tends to be predominantly summer flowering.
Prepare early autumn soil with a winter fallow period to allow frost to condition the soil, followed by spring sowing once soil temperature has risen.
MIXTURE SYNERGY
80% Low maintenance grasses for clay soils:
20% Chewings fescue
10% Common bent
30% Crested dogstail
3% Meadow foxtail
1% Quaking grass
30% Slender creeping red fescue
2% Sweet vernal grass
4% Tufted hairgrass
20% of the following Flora blend:
10% Common Sorrel (Green)
9% Ribwort Plantain (Green)
8% Betony (Purple)
8% Black Knapweed (Purple)
8% Lady's Bedstraw (Yellow)
8% Self Heal (Purple)
7% Meadow Buttercup (Yellow)
6% Teasel
6% Yellow Rattle (Yellow)
5% Birdsfoot Trefoil (Yellow)
4% Red Clover (Red)
4% Tufted Vetch (Purple)
4% Oxeye Daisy (White)
4% Yarrow (White)
3% Pepper Saxifrage (White)
3% Ragged Robin (Red)
2% Cowslip (Yellow)
1% Greater Mullein (White)
COMPANION PLANTING
Both BAR 13 and BAR 40 are excellent mixtures for companion sowing with wild flowers.