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Hedgerow and Light Shade Seed Mix

Hedgerow and Light Shade Seed Mix

Regular price £13.95 GBP
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Origin: Britain

Soil Type: Neutral, well drained

Seeding rate: 4g per square metre

Approximate flowers:grasses ratio: 30:70

Species mix: Please see below

Suitable for:

Neutral Soils
Heavy Soils
Packet Size

Hedgerow and Light Shade Seed Mix

This lovely and diverse seed mix is a perfect base for establishing colourful hedge margins and other areas in light shade. 70% certified grasses, and 30% native British wildflowers. Unlike all the other mixes we sell, these are species which will thrive without full sun. It's a generic mix, so the wildflower element is guaranteed UK origin and provenance and the grasses are certified.

We also sell the wildflower only element of this mix - i.e. without grasses.

There are full instructions on the back of the packet. You can expect to receive your seed within five working days of placing an order.

Supplier: All Things Rural

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Species making up over 4% of the mix are shown in bold.

Wildflowers (30%):

  • Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
  • Agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria)
  • Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata)
  • Lesser Burdock (Arctium minus)*
  • Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra)
  • Greater Knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa)
  • Wild Carrot (Daucus carota)
  • Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum)
  • Vipers Bugloss (Echium vulgare)
  • Hedge Bedstraw (Galium mollugo)
  • Ladies' Bedstraw (Galium verum)
  • Wood Avens (Geum urbanum)
  • Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis)
  • Oxeye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
  • Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris)
  • Red Campion (Silene dioica)
  • White Campion (Silene latifolia)
  • Upright Hedge-parsley (Torilis japonica)*


Grasses (70%):

  • Common Bent (Agrostis capillaris)
  • Sweet Vernal-grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum)
  • Slender-creeping (Red-fescue Festuca rubra)
  • Wood Meadow-grass (Poa nemoralis)
  • Crested dogstail (Cynosurus cristatus)


* Species currently unavailable

Our Company

Experience and Advice

British Wildflower Seeds is a trading name of Habitat Aid Ltd. We are a small Somerset based business, trading since 2008. We have been making meadows for over 20 years and are happy to advise you on yours. We source seed from most of the best wildflower seed harvesters in the UK, including the very small.

Ethics

We have donated c.£150,000 to UK conservation NGOs through our structured giving programme and work more generally to promote habitats like grassland. We are a certified B Corporation and licenced to sell seeds by DEFRA. We are also a Plant Healthy Nursery and authorised to issue Plant Passports. 

It’s not our objective to make as much money as possible out of what we do. We want to play a practical part in the fight against biodiversity loss. This means empowering customers, helping suppliers and, of course, putting wildflower meadows back into our landscape.

Our Seed

Quality

Our seed is freshly sourced from the best harvesters around the UK. We test it randomly at an independent laboratory.  

Choice and Provenance

We have an unbeatable range of meadow mixes to suit (nearly!) all conditions. These are often sustainably harvested from donor meadows around Britain and are regularly not available commercially elsewhere. We also offer seed mixes constructed to set %s.

Floral Content

Our constructed mixes aren’t the cheapest as they have 30% wildflowers, rather than the traditional 20% or lower. Nitrogen deposition and warmer winters mean that mixes with these lower rates are liable to lose diversity.

The harvested mixes we sell have up to 70% wildflowers to 30% grasses and much higher species diversity, sometimes including relatively rare flowers. They often offer outstanding value for money.

None of our mixes include non-native or imported flower seed. Period.

Our Customers

We’re not sure how many people we’ve dealt with over the years – many tens of thousands.  Happy customers include The National Trust, Wildlife Trusts, Natural England, leading garden designers, housebuilders, BNG specialists, solar farm developers, local councils, etc. etc..  

We have an average over 4.5 Judge.me customer rating, which puts us in the top 10% of stores. 

You can typically expect your seed to be dispatched on the day you place your order or the following day. There may occasionally be a small delay while we restock; please do tell us if there’s a special event you need the seed for if you’re ordering at the last minute.

We usually send packages under 1kg by Royal Mail first class and larger weights by courier, overnight delivery. Over something like 200kg usually on a pallet. 

Delivery charges are included in the prices quoted on the website.

Sadly we cannot currently deliver to Northern Ireland because of the mess following Brexit. We don’t export seed either, other than in exceptional circumstances. 

On small areas it’s best to hand sow - ask us about larger sites.

Check you’ve prepared the area to be sown thoroughly and mark it out into squares using canes. These can be an appropriate size for the total area - we usually recommend something like 10mX10m for sites around half an acre, for example.

  • Shake the bag of seed to ensure even species distribution in the mix.
  • Weigh out the appropriate amount of seed for the square you are seeding. Sowing rate will be 1 to 4 g/m2 - check on the website.
  • Pour into a bucket and add sand or similar to bulk the seed out - it doesn’t really matter how much - 1:1 or similar.
  • Scatter the seed, half in one direction (side to side) and the second pass in the opposite direction (front to back).
  • Walk slowly across the area, taking a small handful of seed/sand regularly and scattering. 
  • The aim is to throw the seed out in an arc in front of you as you walk - imagine you’re throwing a frisbee.
  • Throw the seed as hard as possible in practice this will be about 2 or 3 metres. Sow downwind rather than upwind or you’ll end up covered!
  • Don’t watch the seed as you walk, keep looking forwards in a straight line.
  • If you can see the seeds on the soil as you spread them it is likely you are sowing too heavily.

 Don’t rake the seed in! Just give it a light roll after sowing. The seeds need very little help. They will take up water and germinate slowly over the next 8 weeks, providing the soil is warm.

If your seed mix is a meadow mix, cut it once it has reached around 10cm in the first year of establishment, after any Yellow Rattle has set seed. This permits light and air to reach the establishing seedlings and also promotes germination of other slower germinating seeds.

Please contact us at info@habitataid.co.uk if we can help with anything.

Customer Reviews

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Dan
Disappointing

Very disappointing. Zero wildflowers. Just grass.

Dear Dan - we were sorry to read your review. Before we have a think about what might have gone wrong, can I ask if this related to the seed you bought from us this year or in 2024? Perhaps you could drop us a line on info@BritishWildflowerMeadowSeeds.co.uk . Thank you!

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Ian Pilkington
Great Service and Price

The seeds arrived the day following the order - superb service. Having compared prices across a number of sites British Wildflower Seeds were by far the best value. The seeds were sown today so fingers crossed we get some rain!

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Faymondo
Super Seed Service!

Very impressed with how quick these seeds came to us. Good thing too as we wanted to sow prior to the springtime window closing. The British Wildflower Seeds we have ordered in the past and on this occasion are great quality, also beautifully and sustainably packaged. Our front law meadow that appears to mostly be in shade throughout the day has taken a while to fully develop, but hopefully with this seed we’ll get a bit more success. Advice given via e-mail was very helpful and detailed, which we were very grateful for.

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Harry Lannon
All great so far!

The variety is great and at a good price.
Delivery was quick. I’ll let you know how they turn out later!

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Keith Wills

Arrived nicely packaged .
Too early to tell as only just planted but I am holding myself in a state of readiness