Devon Wildflower Meadow Seed Mix

Please visit our sister site British Wildflower Meadow Seeds if you want less seed than advertised here or if your intended purchases come to under our £100 basket minimum.

Devon Wildflower Meadow Mix

This mix of grasses and wildflowers has been harvested from 70 acres of traditional hay meadows on the edge of the Blackdown Hills. It is very similar to a seed mix we have successfully trialled on a demonstration site on relatively heavy soil here. The Devon meadow mix includes several unusual wildflower species which you won't find in other commercially available seed mixes, including the Common spotted orchid and the Corky fruited Water Dropwort, which is only found in the Southwest.

The mix also includes some of our most beautiful and delicate native grasses, and the harvesters have also included a handful of cornfield annuals, including Corncockle.

c.35% meadow harvested wildflower seed and 65% meadow harvested wild grasses.

You can buy smaller packet sizes here at our sister website.

c.35% Wildflowers, Major Species: 
Yellow Rattle Rhinanthus minor 

Wild Red Clover Trifolium pratense

Common Knapweed Centaurea nigra

Ribwort Plantain Plantago lanceolata

Bulbous Buttercup Ranunculus bulbosus

Oxeye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare

Self-heal Prunella vulgaris

c.65% Grasses: 

Smooth stalked meadow grass Poa pratensis

Cynosorus cristatus

Sheep's fescue

Chewing's fescue

Slender red fescue

Timothy

Phleum sp.

Rough Bent

Agrostis spp.

Many other species included, in smaller quantities.

Sowing Rate: 4g per square metre, or 16kg per acre.
Seed mixtures may be ordered in 1 kg increments from 1 kg upwards. Quantities from 2 kg to 10 kg at the 2 kg rate. Over 10kg subject to availability, and prices on application.

Supplier : Goren Farm

We strongly recommend reading up on wildflower meadows before buying seed - see our resources section and brief guide to preparation and aftercare, which includes links to our "how to" blogs and video.

Although we test our seed and it has high germination rates, you need to be careful about initial care and establishing an annual regime. Don't be put off though - once you get the hang of it it's pretty straightforward.