BFS 4 – Heavy Clay Soil Wildflower Seed Mix

Clay soils can be difficult to establish on. They waterlog over winter, turn sticky and heavy when wet, and crack in a dry summer. BFS 4 is a wildflower and grass seed mix for heavy clay soil, built from species suited to those conditions.

Sow this mix at 5g/m². It is 20% wildflowers (18 species) and 80% grasses (7 species).

Wildflowers

• 4% Achillea millefolium – (Yarrow)
• 8% Centaurea nigra – (Black Knapweed)
• 6% Dipsacus fullonum – (Teasel)
• 8% Galium verum – (Lady’s Bedstraw)
• 4% Leucanthemum vulgare – (Oxeye Daisy)
• 5% Lotus corniculatus – (Bird’s-foot Trefoil)
• 3% Lychnis flos-cuculi – (Ragged Robin)
• 9% Plantago lanceolata – (Ribwort Plantain)
• 2% Primula veris – (Cowslip)
• 8% Prunella vulgaris – (Selfheal)
• 7% Ranunculus acris – (Meadow Buttercup)
• 6% Rhinanthus minor – (Yellow Rattle)
• 10% Rumex acetosa – (Common Sorrel)
• 3% Silaum silaus – (Pepper Saxifrage)
• 8% Stachys officinalis – (Betony)
• 4% Trifolium pratense – (Red Clover, Native)
• 1% Verbascum Thapsus – (Greater Mullein)
• 4% Vicia cracca – (Tufted Vetch)

Grasses

• 10% Agrostis capillaris – (Common Bent)
• 4% Alopecurus pratensis – (Meadow Foxtail)
• 2% Anthoxanthum odoratum – (Sweet Vernal Grass)
• 30% Cynosurus cristatus – (Crested Dogstail)
• 4% Deschampsia cespitosa – (Tufted Hair Grass)
• 20% Festuca rubra ssp Commutata – (Chewings Fescue)
• 30% Festuca rubra ssp litoralis – (Slender CRF)

All seeds in this mix are subject to availability when your order is placed.