Church of Bures | Wild Flower

White Clover is a low-growing, high-tillering plant which is a very important constituent of our long term leys. Kersey is a large leaf variety, Milka is medium and Nanouk is small. In our mixtures we blend the three. This enables maximum benefits in terms of flexibility to most multi-purpose leys. Kersey is larger and more robust than the small, hardier Wild White Clover.

Constable Mix

This fantastic all purpose wild flower mixture is unique to Church of Bures. All species in the mix have been grown on a wild flower farm in Lincolnshire and harvested carefully, cleaned and mixed for us. It provides a stable way of establishing a beautiful meadow using attractive native species and has been formulated to provide a wide range of strong UK native flowers. The Constable and Gainsborough Mixtures give excellent variety and colour throughout the flowering season, from April through to October. The mixtures will not only delight the eye with their rich diversity but will also prove very attractive to butterflies and other insects.

Since enhanced soil fertility will have an adverse effect on the persistence of Wild Flora by encouraging more aggressive grasses, clovers with their atmospheric nitrogen fixing properties have been omitted entirely from the mixtures.

Mixed in with the wild flora is a carefully selected blend of attractive and ornamental meadow grasses which are worthy of appreciation in their own right. These will maintain healthy but non-competitive growth in low fertility soil conditions, keeping the ground tidy throughout the year. The ornamental grasses make up 80% of the mixtures with 20% wild flowers.

When buying a wild flower meadow mixture we provide you with a complete guide to soil preparation, sowing, initial maintenance and continual maintenance.

Constable Mix

Flora
10.0%	Birdsfoot Trefoil	Lotus corniculatus
12.0%	Black Medick (Trefoil)	Medicago Lupulina
6.0%	Carrot	Daucus carota
9.0%	Field Scabious	Knautia arvensis
9.0%	Knapweed	Centaurea
10.0%	Ladies Bedstraw	Galium verum
8.0%	Meadow Buttercup	Ranunculus acris
4.0%	Ox Eye Daisy	Leucanthemum vulgare
3.0%	Common St Johns Wort	Hypericum perforatum
10.0%	Ribwort Plantain	Plantago lanceolata
6.0%	Salad Burnet	Sanguisorba minor
10.0%	Self Heal	Prunella vulgaris
3.0%	Yarrow	Achillea millefolium
100.0%	= 20% of Constable Mixture

Grasses
6.5%	Browntop Bentgrass	Agrostis capillaris
18.5%	Chewings Fescue	Festuca rubra commutata
12.5%	Creeping Red Fescue	Festuca rubra litoralis
18.5%	Crested Dogstail	Cynosurus cristatus
12.5%	Meadow Fescue	Festuca pratensis
9.5%	Rough Stalked Meadow Grass	Poa trivialis
12.5%	Sheeps or Hard Fescue	Festuca ovina
9.5%	Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass	Poa pratensis
100.0%	= 80% of Constable Mixture

1kg per 250yd² (200m²)

Gainsborough Mix

The Gainsborough wild flower mix has been formed to include less species than the Constable Mix, however there are far more seeds of each wild flower specie included. This improves the chance of establishment especially in areas where the soil is quite fertile and the grasses are allowed to grow quickly and dominate. This is a beautiful mixture which is completed by the attractive non-aggressive meadow grasses.

Gainsborough Mix

Flora
12%	Knapweed	Centaurea nigra
15%	Field Scabious	Knautia arvensis
8%	Oxeye Daisy	Leucanthemum vulgare
10%	Birdsfoot Trefoil	Lotus corniculatus
16%	Self Heal	Prunella vulgaris
12%	Meadow Buttercup	Ranunculus acris
12%	Lady's Bedstraw	Galium verum
15%	Ribwort Plantain	Plantago lanceolata
100% = 20% of Gainsborough Mixture

Grasses
6.5%	Browntop Bentgrass	Agrostis capillaris
18.5%	Chewings Fescue	Festuca rubra commutata
12.5%	Creeping Red Fescue	Festuca rubra litoralis
18.5%	Crested Dogstail	Cynosurus cristatus
12.5%	Meadow Fescue	Festuca pratensis
9.5%	Rough Stalked Meadow Grass	Poa trivialis
12.5%	Sheeps or Hard Fescue	Festuca ovina
9.5%	Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass	Poa pratensis
100% = 80% of Gainsborough Mixture

1kg per 250yd² (200m²)

Church Cornfield Mixture

It is possible to create a striking meadow of annual cornfield flowers. When this mixture is established the results are stunning. It is commonly sold as a pure mixture of wild flower seeds, however it is possible to dilute the flora with a meadow grass mixture.

Church Cornfield Mixture

10%	Corn Poppy	Papaver rhoeas
25%	Corn Flower	Centurea cyanus
17%	Corn Marigold	Chrysanthemum segatum
8%	Corn Chamomile	Anthemis arvensis
40%	Corn Cockle	Agrostemma githago
100% = 100% of Church Cornfield Mix

1kg per 250yd² (200m²)

Bumblebees & Butterflies Mix

	This is an excellent way to attract bees, butterflies and many other insects. This mixture is not only ideal for domestic wildlife projects but can also be suitable for farmers as an alternative ELS mixture.

	Bumblebees & Butterflies Mix

	3 kgs Borage 2 kgs Phacelia 1 kg Essex Broad Red Clover 6 kgs per ace

Wild Flower Seeds

There are numerous wild flower mixtures available for a wide range of situations and soils i.e. acid soils, damp loamy soils, calcareous soils, hedgerow and light shade, woodland, heavy shade, water margins and pond edges. It is therefore possible to construct a mixture to suit your needs and situation from the list of common names of wild flower species below.

Wild FLower Seeds

Autumn Hawkbit	Meadow Rue
Betony	Meadow Vetchling
Birdsfoot Trefoil	Meadowsweet
Bladder Campion	Monkshood
Bloody Cranesbill	Musk Mallow
Bulbous Buttercup	Nettle Leaved Bellflower
Burnet Saxifrage	Night Flowering Catchfly
Bush Vetch	Ox-eye Daisy
Clustered Bellflower	Oxlip
Columbine	Pepper Saxifrage
Common Agrimony	Penennial Flax
Common Cats-ear	Pheasants Eye
Common Daisy	Pignut Wood Cranesbill
Common Fleabane	Primrose
Common Knapweed	Purple Loosestrife
Common Restharrow	Ragged Robin
Common St Johns Wort	Ribwort Plantain
Common Toadflax	Rockrose
Corn Buttercup	Rough Hawkbit
Corn Chamomile	Sainfoin
Corn Cockle	Salad Burnet
Corn Marigold	Sawwort
Corn Poppy	Sea Campion
Cornflower	Sea Holly
Cowslip	Sea Kale
Dandelion	Self Heal
Dark Mullein	Sheeps Sorrel
Devils Bit Scabious	Skullcap
Dropwort	Small Scabious
Dyer's Greenweed	Sneezewort
Field Scabious	Soapwort
Forget-me-not	Sorrel
Foxglove	Spiny Restharrow
Fragrant Agrimony	Square Stemmed St Johns Wort
Garlic Mustard	Sweet Cicely
Germander Speedwell	Sweet Violet
Globe Flower	Teasel
Goatsbeard	Tufted Vetch
Gorse Red Campion	Upright Hedge Parsley
Grass Vetchling	Vipers Bugloss
Great Mullein	Water Avens
Greater Birdsfoot	Water Mint
Greater Burnet Saxifrage	White Campion
Greater Knapweed	Wild Basil
Gypsywort	Wild Candytruft
Hairy St Johns Wort	Wild Carrot
Harebell	Wild Marjoram
Haresfoot Clover	Wild Mignonotte
Heath Bedstraw	Wild Pansy
Hedge Bedstraw	Wild Red Clover
Hedge Woundwort	Wild Strawberry
Hedgerow Cranesbill	Wild Thyme
Hemp Agrimony	Wood Avens
Herb Roberts	Wood Sage
Hoarty Plantain	Wood Vetch
Hop	Yarrow
Horseshoe Vetch	Yellow Archangel
Kidney Vetch	Yellow Flag Iris
Lady's Bedstraw	Yellow Horned Poppy
Lady's Smock	Yellow Rattle
Lesser Snapdragon
Marsh Marigold
Meadow Buttercup

Wild Flower Plugs

It is extremely difficult, almost impossible to successfully introduce wild flowers by sowing seeds to an existing grass meadow. We describe such a project as an expensive waste of time. The grass plants simply do not allow enough room for the newly planted seeds to establish. The simple solution is to use wild flower plugs. Hand planting with established annual and perennial wild flowers into the grass sward is a simple and highly effective means of solving the problem. Each planted plug has an established root system and contain slow release fertiliser. For the more conservation conscious all wild flower plugs are no more than two generations from a wild plant. Contact the office for a full list species available as plugs.

Minimum order 500 plus