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"Paul Taylor" wrote in message
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I am just about to buy some seed for the end of my garden. It will be a
wild flower garden so the grass will not get cut all summer (I guess it
will need tidying up in the autumn). My question is does it make a big
difference to what type of grass seed I use. The area does have one or
two trees in the vicinity but the grass should get some sun as the sun
moves across the sky during the day. I have been to my local DIY store
and they have (1) quick growing (2) Luxury (3) Family and (4) Shade.
Some of them include Ryegrass and some don't (not exactly sure what
Ryegrass is?).

Ryegrass is a hard-wearing but thuggish grass IMO - I would tend to think
not so great for a wildflower meadow. Grass is a bit of a cheeky thing and
tends to turn up all by itself - at least it did in our wildflower meadow.
We only planted the wildflowers and let nature do the rest and it seems to
have worked ok. Sometimes we need to go in and referee some of the more
vigorous participants but on the whole a nice place to be. Quite a few seed
companies do mixes for wildflower meadows which might give you a better
balance but, right just now, examples evade me. I'll post agian if I find
the info - unless someone beats me to it.

--A

grass seed
 

I am just about to buy some seed for the end of my garden. It will be a
wild flower garden so the grass will not get cut all summer (I guess it
will need tidying up in the autumn). My question is does it make a big
difference to what type of grass seed I use. The area does have one or
two trees in the vicinity but the grass should get some sun as the sun
moves across the sky during the day. I have been to my local DIY store
and they have (1) quick growing (2) Luxury (3) Family and (4) Shade.
Some of them include Ryegrass and some don't (not exactly sure what
Ryegrass is?).

TIA

PT

grass seed
 

"Alison" o.uk wrote in
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"Paul Taylor" wrote in message
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I am just about to buy some seed for the end of my garden. It will be a
wild flower garden so the grass will not get cut all summer (I guess it
will need tidying up in the autumn). My question is does it make a big
difference to what type of grass seed I use. The area does have one or
two trees in the vicinity but the grass should get some sun as the sun
moves across the sky during the day. I have been to my local DIY store
and they have (1) quick growing (2) Luxury (3) Family and (4) Shade.
Some of them include Ryegrass and some don't (not exactly sure what
Ryegrass is?).

Ryegrass is a hard-wearing but thuggish grass IMO - I would tend to think
not so great for a wildflower meadow. Grass is a bit of a cheeky thing
and
tends to turn up all by itself - at least it did in our wildflower meadow.
We only planted the wildflowers and let nature do the rest and it seems to
have worked ok. Sometimes we need to go in and referee some of the more
vigorous participants but on the whole a nice place to be. Quite a few
seed
companies do mixes for wildflower meadows which might give you a better
balance but, right just now, examples evade me. I'll post agian if I find
the info - unless someone beats me to it.

I agree I've seen 'wildflower meadow' mixtures even in large DIY stores. One
of those might be a better bet.

--
Tumbleweed

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grass seed
 

Paul Taylor wrote:

I am just about to buy some seed for the end of my garden. It will be a
wild flower garden so the grass will not get cut all summer (I guess it
will need tidying up in the autumn). My question is does it make a big
difference to what type of grass seed I use. The area does have one or
two trees in the vicinity but the grass should get some sun as the sun
moves across the sky during the day. I have been to my local DIY store
and they have (1) quick growing (2) Luxury (3) Family and (4) Shade.
Some of them include Ryegrass and some don't (not exactly sure what
Ryegrass is?).

TIA

PT


If you've not got grass there already you're lucky: establishing a wild
flower meadow usually involves stripping off existing turf to get rid of
the aggressive grasses that will just swamp wildflowers. The grasses that
meadow mixes contain are things like red fescue, common bent, quaking
grass. You can buy these separetly or already mixed with wildflower seeds,
and several companies offer different mixtures for different conditions.
Here is one I happen to have bookmarked:

http://www.hartlana.co.uk/natural/wfmm.htm

I think you'd better get a move on, sowing time will be here quite soon

Anita