Seeds
Ecoseeds Native Wildflowers has developed a quality range of wildflower products to suit a variety of needs - from Local Councils looking for a colourful impact in public spaces to domestic gardeners looking to attract butterflies.

One Year Hi-Colour
for colour and biodiversity
This mixture contains only annual species, is reliable to grow, and provides a high density of colour throughout a long flowering season during its one year life span.

  • Supplied in five variants: standard, enhanced, white/red, blue/red, orange/red
  • Contains: Cornfield annuals
  • Flowering period: May to October
  • Colour range: (depending on variant) white, blue, yellow, red, orange, purple, pink
  • Attractive to: Many insects including bees and butterflies
  • Suitable sites: formal/informal bedding, small/medium roundabouts, tubs, roadside/path side areas, parks, recreation areas
  • Comes with full sowing and maintenance instructions

Two Year Hi-Colour
for colour and biodiversity
This mixture is easy to grow, durable in all weather conditions, reliable, and provides a riot of colour throughout a long flowering season during its two year life span. It doesn't contain grass and requires a minimum of cultivation. The enhanced mix contains cottage garden species which are attractive to insects.

  • Supplied in two variants: standard and enhanced
  • Contains: (depending on variant) annuals, native biennials, native perennials, cottage garden biennials and perennials attractive to insects
  • Flowering period: Spring to Autumn
  • Attractive to: Many insects including bees and butterflies
  • Suitable sites: formal/informal beds, tubs
  • Helps to increase biodiversity

Four Year Hi-Colour
for colour and biodiversity
This mixture contains 70% flowers and 30% grasses. It is a cost effective solution for larger areas providing high colour benefit, high density, reliability, and ease of cultivation. The enhanced mix contains cottage garden species which are attractive to insects.

  • Supplied in two variants: standard and enhanced
  • Contains: (depending on variant) annuals, native biennials, native perennials, cottage garden biennials and perennials attractive to insects
  • Flowering period: Spring to Autumn
  • Suitable sites: larger urban areas/parks/beds, path edges, long borders, larger roundabouts, roadsides, larger recreation areas
  • Increases biodiversity
Pure Habitats
for increasing biodiversity
These mixtures contain 70% grasses and 30% long lasting wildflower perennials. They are specifically designed for 'habitat creation' - requiring careful management and maintenance regimes during the first three years. Flowering occurs from the second year onwards and like wild habitats the colour ranges from takes place in the second year
Yellow Rattle
 Yellow Rattle is an attractive, partially parasitic, grassland annual. Once it is established it can reduce the competitive vigour of certain grasses by up to 50% thus benefiting other sown wild flowers.

Yellow Rattle seed must be sown in autumn because it needs to be chilled through the winter to trigger its germination the following spring. It can be sown as part of a mixture or on its own in to established grassland prepared as below. Sow at up to 1g per square meter. The most suitable sites for Yellow Rattle will be grassland of low to medium fertility and with a balanced sward that is not dominated by coarse vigorous grasses.

Prepare for sowing by cutting the grass very short (25mm) or by grazing very hard. Open up sites for germination by harrowing, raking, or lightly discing aiming to create up to 50% bare soil. Broadcast the seed on to the prepared surface. Establishment is rather unpredictable. Results will vary from one year to another and from one part of a site to another. The reasons for this are not always apparent but having an open sward structure seems to be most important.

Yellow Rattle is an annual with short-lived seed so therefore needs a chance to set seed each year. Cutting or grazing between April and mid July will eliminate the Rattle by preventing it seeding and should be avoided. Traditional meadow management based around a late July hay cut provides the best opportunity to set seed and for the seed to scatter during the process of haymaking. Autumn grazing or mowing and harrowing is also important as it will help to keep the sward open providing new sites for Yellow Rattle to establish in the following year and maintain continuity over time. Yellow Rattle populations tend to fluctuate in meadows and move about from year to year.





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