Meadow mix for Acid Soils
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This mix includes species which should grow if your soil is not too acid! Many wild flower species will only grow in neutral to alkaline soils, but some species can cope with a certain amount of acidity.
80% grasses and 20% wild flowers, to be sown at 4 grams per square metre, including the following species:
(Click on the species name to see a photograph)
- Betony
- Birdsfoot Trefoil
- Black Knapweed
- Bulbous Buttercup
- Common Sorrel
- Cowslip
- Devil's Bit Scabious
- Lady's Bedstraw
- Lesser Stitchwort
- Meadow Buttercup
- Oxeye Daisy
- Pignut
- Ribwort Plantain
- Selfheal
- Wood Sage
- Yarrow
- Yellow Rattle
- Common Bent
- Crested Dogstail
- Fine-leaved Sheep's Fescue
- Sheep's Fescue
- Slender Creeping Red Fescue
- Smaller Cat's Tail
- Sweet Vernal Grass
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.