Establishing mixtures on water margins can be difficult due to fluctuating water levels, try and sow when weather conditions look stable. Only use this mix where there is a constant supply of moisture, this is essential for the indicator species to thrive.
Mixtures
20% Wild Flowers
2% Common Fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica)
5% Gipsywort (Lycopus europaeus)
3% Great Burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis)
8% Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil (Lotus uliginosus)
2% Hemp Agrimony (Erigeron acer)
1% Marsh Mallow (Althaea officinalis)
12% Meadow Buttercup (Ranunculus acris)
10% Meadowsweet (Flipendula ulmaria)
2% Pepper Saxifrage (Silaum silas)
6% Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
3% Ragged Robin (Lychnis floscuculi)
9% Salad Burnet (Sanguisorba minor)
12% Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris)
2% Sneezewort (Achillea ptarmica)
1% Sq. Stem St John’s Wort (Hypericum tetrapterum)
6% Tufted Vetch (Vicia cracca)
2% Water Avens (Geum rivale)
14% Yellow Flag Iris (Iris psudacorus)
80% Grasses
5% Browntop Bentgrass (Agrostis capillaris)
1% Soft Rush (Juncus effusus)
32% Crested Dogstail (Cynosurus christatus)
10% Meadow Foxtail (Alopecurus pratensis)
1% Pendulas Sedge (Carex pendula) 7% Rough Stalked
Meadow Grass(Poa trivialis)
10% Sheep’s Fescue (Festuca ovina)
25% Slender Creeping Red Fescue(Festuca rubra litoralis)
4% Sweet Vernal Grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum)
5% Tufted Hairgrass (Deschampsia caespitosa)
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