These diverse mixtures will provide foraging sites for invertebrates such as bumblebees, solitary bees, butterflies and hoverflies throughout the late spring and summer as well as providing valuable habitat for farmland birds such as Yellowhammers.
Sown into a warm, moist seedbed in late spring or summer the established mixture will produce flowers throughout the late spring and summer months providing a valuable source of pollen and nectar.
The tussocky grasses will also provide a valuable over wintering habitat for invertebrates and small mammals.
Agrovista grasses and wildflowers mixture
Sowing window | April - August |
SFI/CSS compatibility | AB8, IPM2, CIPM2 |
Sowing rate | 20kg/ha |
Sowing depth | 10-15mm |
Pack size | 10kg |
Mixture information | Strong creeping red fescue, tall fescue, smooth stalked meadow grass, chewings fescue, red clover, birdsfoot trefoil, oxeye daisy, alsike clover, yarrow, ribwort plantain, yellow blossom clover, common vetch, crimson clover, white clover |
Agrovista premium grasses and wildflowers mixture
Sowing window | April - August |
SFI/CSS compatibility | AB8, IPM2, CIPM2 |
Sowing rate | 20kg/ha |
Sowing depth | 10-15mm |
Pack size | 10kg |
Mixture information | Slender creeping red fescue, crested dogs tail, smooth stalked meadow grass, meadow foxtail, small Timothy, birdsfoot trefoil, white campion, alsike clover, yarrow, red campion, yellow blossom clover, common knapweed, musk mallow, borage |