FERTILIZED FERTILIZED EXTRA seed mix

Description

Want a beautiful, colourful and thriving lawn? After the highly successful Flowering Ancestral Grass with 7 native wildflower species, its bigger brother, the Flowering Ancestral Grass Extra Seed Mix with 15 species of native Hungarian seeds, is now available.

This guarantees success with pollinators too: cat's-tail, sage, spotted knapweed, rabbit's foot, blonde vetch and hornwort are very popular with butterflies, while white clover, dandelion, spearwort, wild rue provide food for short-tongued pollinators such as the house bee, and red clover is most popular with long-tongued bees, including bumblebees. And daisies are an important source of pollen, with their long flowering period, lasting from February to November.

Like all butterfly weeds, testicles, hornwort, hare's-foot and spotted knapweed absorb nitrogen from the air and enrich the soil. It's good for the grass too, so you can forget about fertilisers. Species in the mix are known for their drought tolerance and often green up even when the grass around them has long since burnt out. Mow the grass less often so they can flower! To some extent, all of these plants can be trained to flower at a lower stage, but try to allow them time (and height). Depending on the time of sowing, not all species will necessarily flower the first year, but certainly from the second.

It can be used with existing grass, mixed with grass when new grass is planted, or on its own without grass (see below). Please read the sowing advice below.

 

Features:

• life cycle: annual, perennial
• flowering time: february-november
• size: 10-35 cm
• soil: dry, average
• growing area: sunny
• pollination factor: 10/10

 

The following species are included:

• common yarrow (Achillea millefolium) - 6,5%
• Parlagi pipitér (Anthemis arvensis) - 4,3%
• hare's foot (Anthyllis vulneraria) - 5,1%
• daisy (Bellis perennis) - 0,5%
• hornwort (Lotus corniculatus) - 17,1%
• chamomile (Matricaria chamomille) - 2,6%
• spearwort (Plantago lanceolata) - 8,5%
• buttercup (Ranunculus arvensis) - 2,1%
• wild reseda (Reseda lutea) - 2.1%
• sage (Salvia nemorosa) - 6,4%
• spotted knapweed (Securigera varia) - 6,4%
• dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) - 2.1%
• white here (Trifolium repens) - 17.1%
• red here (Trifolium pratense) - 17.1%
• hairy vetch (Vicia villosa) - 2,1%

Vetting advice:

It is best to on a prepared, weed-free, free-standing surface, raked to a fine dusting free. You should then count on 2-3 grams per square metre. For fresh grass you can also mix this mix with grass seeds (2-3 grams per 100 grams of grass or 1-2 grams per square metre of the appropriate amount of grass. Alternatively it can also be sown between existing grass mixes, but it is still important to leave some free ground. The way to do this is to keep it low cut the grass low and then go over the area once or twice with a lawn aerator. Then the felt layer is rolled out and the seeds can be sown in the grass. It is better to calculate with 3-4 grams per square metre. If you do not aerate the lawn, the seeds will not germinate at all or only barely! Afterwards it is important keep the area moist (not wet) during the germination period (3-4 weeks) This may mean several small waterings a day in dry, warm weather. Annual species will flower in the first year, most perennials from the second. After about 4-6 weeks after sowing, you can cut them once. If you cut more than once at the beginning, the species will stunt a little so that they grow shorter and flower sooner. The mixture is much more drought tolerant than grass, but the testes will thrive in the severe drought they'll appreciate about twice a month watering (spearwort, hornwort and yarrow, on the other hand, are still green even in drought conditions). In the long term, the aim is to create a nice, biodiverse, flowering area with much less maintenance and saving lots of water: you don't need to mow often to achieve this (just more often at the beginning if you like them lower). Over time, the butterflies in the mix will become more widespread.

We wish the seeds a good germination!

Recommended seeding rate:

sown alone 2-3 grams/m²

sown with grass seeds: 1-2 grams/m²

existing grass: 3-4 grams/m²