Wild flower meadow

April 20, 2014 Olly Nolan

We decided to plant up the area as you come down the drive with a traditional wild flower meadow, letting the sheep graze it in the Autumn.

The soil has been pretty wet for the last few months so we hadn't been able to do much with it but it was pretty dry today and we decided to level it out and grade it down nicely into Liams. All the apple trees were plants a couple of weeks ago. The seed is ordered and should arrive in the next week or so.

BASIC GENERAL PURPOSE MEADOW MIXTURE

Composition

This is a simple low cost meadow mixture suitable for a wide range of soil types. The wild flowers are robust and showy, and the grasses are fine and slow growing.

Wild Flowers

%	Latin name	Common name
0.5	Achillea millefolium	Yarrow
2	Centaurea nigra	Common Knapweed
1	Galium verum	Lady's Bedstraw
2	Leucanthemum vulgare	Oxeye Daisy
2	Lotus corniculatus	Birdsfoot Trefoil
2	Plantago lanceolata	Ribwort Plantain
3	Poterium sanguisorba - (Sanguisorba minor)	Salad Burnet
3	Ranunculus acris	Meadow Buttercup
0.4	Rumex acetosa	Common Sorrel
2	Silene dioica	Red Campion
2	Silene vulgaris	Bladder Campion
0.1	Trifolium pratense	Wild Red Clover
20%

Grasses

%	Latin name	Common name
8	Agrostis capillaris	Common Bent
40	Cynosurus cristatus	Crested Dogstail
28	Festuca rubra	Slender-creeping Red-fescue
4	Phleum bertolonii	Smaller Cat's-tail
80%