BFS 11 – Coastal Meadow Grassland Seed Mix

BFS11 is a conservation grade seed mix bred for the coast: 26 UK native wildflowers combined with 9 grasses, designed for the low fertility, salt-sprayed ground around sea cliffs and shingle beaches. It matches NVC maritime cliff communities MC1 to MC12 and the ‘maritime cliff and slope’ habitat of principal importance. Because the sward establishes on shallow, low fertility soils, it needs little ongoing management once established. Coastal grassland like this supports foraging Chough and gives shelter to invertebrates such as the Glanville Fritillary.

• Suitable NVC communities: MC1; MC2; MC3; MC4; MC5; MC6; MC7; MC8; MC9; MC10; M11; MC12.
• Sowing rate: 5g/m².
• Contains: wildflowers 20% (26 species), grasses 80% (9 species).

N.B: All seeds specified in this mixture are subject to availability at the time of purchase.

Wildflowers

• 5% Achillea millefolium – Yarrow
• 8% Anthyllis vulnearia – Kidney Vetch
• 0.5% Armeria maritima – Thrift
• 5% Centaurea scabiosa – Greater Knapweed
• 7% Daucus carota – Wild Carrot
• 4% Echium vulgare – Viper’s Bugloss
• 7% Galium verum – Lady’s Bedstraw
• 2% Hypericum perforatum – Perforate St John’s Wort
• 2% Hypochaeris radicata – Common Cat’s-Ear
• 8% Leucanthemum vulgare – Ox-Eye Daisy
• 3% Linaria vulgaris – Yellow Toadflax
• 10% Lotus Corniculatus – Bird’s-Foot Trefoil
• 2% Ononis repens – Common Restharrow
• 1% Plantago coronopus – Buck’s-Horn Plantain
• 1% Plantago maritima – Sea Plantain
• 5% Plantago media – Hoary Plantain
• 7% Prunella vulgaris – Selfheal
• 7% Rumex acetosa – Common Sorrel
• 5% Sanguisorba minor – Salad Burnet
• 0.25% Sedum album – Biting Stonecrop
• 0.25% Sedum anglicum – English Stonecrop
• 3% Silene maritima – Sea Campion
• 4% Silene vulgaris – Bladder Campion
• 1% Thymus praecox – Wild Thyme
• 1% Tragopogon pratensis – Goat’s Beard
• 1% Tripleurospermum maritimum – Sea Mayweed

Grasses

• 2% Agrostis stolonifera – Creeping Bent
• 1% Briza media – Quaking Grass
• 4% Bromus erectus – Upright Brome
• 32% Cynosurus cristatus – Crested Dog’s-Tail
• 30% Festuca ovina – Sheep’s Fescue
• 25% Festuca rubra ssp rubra – Red Fescue
• 1% Koeleria macrantha – Crested Hair Grass
• 4% Phleum bertolonii – Small Timothy
• 1% Trisetum flavescens – Yellow Oat Grass