BFS 6 – Hedgerow & Shade Wildflower Seed Mix

BFS 6 suits shaded and semi-shaded ground: along hedgerows, at woodland edges and beneath trees within established woodland.

Sowing rate: 5g per square metre. Wildflowers make up 20% of the mix across 20 species, and grasses 80% across 9 species. Species availability can vary at the time of purchase, so the exact list below may differ slightly between orders.

Wildflower species

• 6.0% Achillea millefolium – (Yarrow)
• 10.0% Agrimony eupatoria – (Agrimony)
• 4.0% Alliaria petiolata – (Hedge Garlic)
• 0.5% Arum maculatum – (Lords-and-Ladies)
• 3.0% Campanula trachelium – (Nettle Leaved Bellflower)
• 10.0% Centaurea nigra – (Black Knapweed)
• 8.0% Digitalis purpurea – (Foxglove)
• 4.0% Galium mollugo – (Hedge Bedstraw)
• 1.0% Geranium pyrenaicum – (Hedgerow Crane’s-bill)
• 7.0% Geum urbanum – (Wood Avens)
• 4.0% Hypericum hirsutum – (Hairy St John’s Wort)
• 8.0% Knautia arvensis – (Field Scabious)
• 8.0% Prunella vulgaris – (Selfheal)
• 8.0% Silene dioica – (Red Campion)
• 5.0% Stachys sylvatica – (Hedge Woundwort)
• 6.0% Teucrium scorodonia – (Wood Sage)
• 3.0% Torilis japonica – (Upright Hedge Parsley)
• 0.5% Verbascum thapsus – (Greater Mullein)
• 2.0% Vicia sepium – (Bush Vetch)
• 2.0% Vicia sylvatica – (Wood Vetch)

Grass species

• 10.0% Agrostis capillaris – (Common Bent)
• 2.0% Anthoxanthum odoratum – (Sweet Vernal Grass)
• 1.0% Brachypodium sylvaticum – (Wood False Brome)
• 30.0% Cynosurus cristatus – (Crested Dogstail)
• 4.0% Deschampsia cespitosa – (Tufted Hair Grass)
• 25.0% Festuca rubra ssp commutate – (Chewings Fescue)
• 15.0% Festuca rubra ssp litoralis – (Slender CRF)
• 8.0% Poa nemoralis – (Wood Meadow Grass)
• 5.0% Poa trivialis – (Rough Meadow Grass)