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cheap wild flower seed supplier?
I am looking to scatter some wild flower seeds in our village to brighten
the place up a bit. Can you recommend any suppliers of cheap wild flower seeds? |
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"mothman" wrote in message ... Doggie Wrote: I am looking to scatter some wild flower seeds in our village to brighten the place up a bit. Can you recommend any suppliers of cheap wild flower seeds? whoever you eventually get them from it would be best to make sure the seeds are from native stock. Personally I use Naturscape in Nottingham. www.naturescape.co.uk. very good service and a wonderful place to visit in mid June. Three other sites you might like to look at http://www.ernest-charles.com/acatal...Gardening.html www.npk.u-net.com www.growingwildflowers.com -- ned http://www.bugsandweeds.co.uk last update 30.12.2004 |
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"mothman" wrote in message ... Doggie Wrote: I am looking to scatter some wild flower seeds in our village to brighten the place up a bit. Can you recommend any suppliers of cheap wild flower seeds? whoever you eventually get them from it would be best to make sure the seeds are from native stock. Personally I use Naturscape in Nottingham. www.naturescape.co.uk. very good service and a wonderful place to visit in mid June. Three other sites you might like to look at http://www.ernest-charles.com/acatal...Gardening.html www.npk.u-net.com www.growingwildflowers.com And it's best not to scatter seeds: the damn wild life eats them. For best results, grow them on, and plant out the seedlings. If you want to get technical, there are sometimes also issues with the provenance of wildflower seeds. I won't go into scientific detail, as it doesn't matter much in most areas; but in sensitive habitats there may be a strain of otherwise ordinary flower X which blooms Y days later than the type, and so feeds invertebrate Z just in time to feed the young of bird B...etc. As I say, it doesn't matter in most places, but one needs to be aware of the problem when innocently boosting plant populations on islands or other isolated micro-eco-systems. Mike. |
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"Doggie" wrote in message ... I am looking to scatter some wild flower seeds in our village to brighten the place up a bit. Can you recommend any suppliers of cheap wild flower seeds? Well, a couple of years ago I decided to commence a wildflower bank at our sports&social club in Cheshire. Some fund raising allowed me £130 which I spent at the National Wildflower Centre, Liverpool. The packs are about 20% flower seeds, it's bulked up with various grasses which look quite good but I think that's very expensive. Late last summer a member was driving past Wheeldon Copse near Delamere and advised me to go and have a look. Wow, several hectares of farmland which has been deep ploughed and planted with tons of wildflower seeds and deciduous tree seedlings. A notice on the stile proclaims it to be a group project with the Countryside Commission and various other bodies inlcuding the National Wildflower Centre. It invites you to help yourself to seeds as they ripen and spread them about, -in your garden, in the hedgerows, when you are out walking. In September I filled carrier bags with seeds of cornflowers, ragged robin,poppies and all sorts of other stuff I can't remember. Have planted them on the bank and it's a carpet of seedlings at present. Hope they don't get attacked by the severe frosts which are prevalent here. The Ordnance Survey map reference for Wheeldon Copse is: SJ 51392 73451. DaveK. |
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