Butterfly Meadow Mix
Full description
A mix which will attract butterflies, such as this Clouded Yellow, as the flowers and grasses will provide nectar for the butterflies and food plants for caterpillars.
80% grasses and 20% wild flowers including the following species:
(Click on the species name to see a photograph)
- Black Knapweed
- Greater Knapweed
- Field Scabious
- Selfheal
- Devils Bit Scabious
- Common Sorrel
- Yarrow
- Cats Ear
- Rough Hawkbit
- Small Scabious
- Betony
- Autumn Hawkbit
- Musk Mallow
- Cowslip
- Birdsfoot Trefoil
- Wild Basil
- Common Bent
- Sweet Vernal Grass
- Crested Dogtail
- Sheep's Fescue
- Slender Creeping Red Fescue
- Smaller Catstail
- Yellow Oat Grass
Sow at 4 grams per m². Do not be tempted to sow seed at double the recommended seeding rate because the grasses tend to germinate first and then there will not be sufficient space for the flower species to get established.
Seed is best sown in Spring or Autumn.
Perennial seed mixes take some time to get established, so it can be a good idea to sow Cornfield Annuals seed at the same time to give some colour in the first year.
Do read our seeding advice for important information on how to prepare, seed and maintain a wildflower area.