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Wiltshire Calcareous Soils Meadow Seed Mix

Wiltshire Calcareous Soils Meadow Seed Mix

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Origin: Broade Chalke, Wiltshire

Soil Type: Shallow lime-rich topsoil over chalk

Seeding rate: 3g per square metre

Wildflowers: grasses ratio: 78:10

Species mix: Please see below

Suitable for:

Calcareous Soils
Neutral Soils
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Wiltshire Calcareous Soils Meadow Seed Mix

This is a stunning meadow mix, typical of neutral to calcareous grassland. It's harvested from a meadow outside Broad Chalke, home of the Chalke Valley history festival, in the Cranborne Chase AONB. 

The harvesters categorise it as being MG5b, leaning to CG3. It's characterised by its very high and diverse floral content, which contains some very lovely things indeed. Also a good quantity (3%) of one of our most beautiful grasses, Briza media, Quaking grass. 

You can expect to receive your seed within five working days of placing an order, although this might vary according to demand. This mix is available in quantities of 1kg and upwards through our main website.

Typical Major Wildflower Species (78%):

Glaucous sedge Carex flacca

Meadow buttercup Ranunculus acris

Yellow rattle Rhinanthus minor

Black medic Medicago lupulina

Ribwort plantain Plantago lanceolata

Oxeye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare

Fairy flax Linum catharticum

Red clover Trifolium pratense

Common knapweed Centaurea nigra

Hoary plantain Plantago media

Birdsfoot trefoil Lotus corniculatus

Major Grasses (10%):

Bent Agrostis spp.

Quaking grass Briza media 

Crested dogstail Cynosaurus cristata

Inert matter 12%


Other species are present in smaller quantities - details on request.

Other species are present in smaller quantities.

Supplier: Bright Seeds

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Elizabeth Jones
Wiltshire calcareous seed mix at Bishops Cannings village hall

The seeds arrived promptly by royal mail and were well packaged ( no plastic or unnecessary frills appreciated).
There was an interesting mix of seeds which was not dominated by grass. We showed them yesterday in a relatively small area of the grounds after it had rained, we look forward to seeing what comes up.
We will let you know and hopefully send pictures. Thank you

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Dawn Andrews
Brilliant

Brilliant service from order to door

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Julie Dunwoodie
Not packaged to give as a gift

Beware of buying it as a present. The seed does not arrive in a separate package & it has a sticker on the front that tells you what's inside, which spoils the surprise.

Thank you for taking the time to review our service - it's always helpful for a small business to have feedback. I'm afraid we don't offer a gift wrapped option and generally feel it's a good idea to tell people what's in the packet they're buying.

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Laura Holmes
Great company, product & service

Really pleased to be able to source local wildflower seeds from this company. Their website is a fantastic resource in itself, with links to tutorials and factsheets. the seed I ordered arrived two days later, much of it sourced from meadows within twenty miles of us.