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Unlike most types of gardening where you change the soil or the garden to match the plant you want to grow, with Wild Flowers you need to judge the existing soil type and conditions and plant a mixture best suited to that situation.
Generally soil fertility should be low. The seed is best sown on well-drained, nutrient-poor subsoil. Slow establishing grasses and Wild Flowers cannot stand much competition from weeds such as docks, thistles and nettles.
If the land is free draining the seed can be sown at many times of the year. Although the best time is during the spring or autumn. If the soil is likely to contain weed seed or has existing grasses in it, then you should introduce cultivations that will kill them off. Keep following this procedure until you are satisfied that the soil is relatively free of weeds.
Cornfield annuals will not establish very well amongst grass or other vegetation. They need to be sown on weed free soil. They also grow strongly and thrive on rich fertile ground, instead of the usual poor soil described above.
Here is a list of Wild Flowers and the soil they prefer to grow in:
Borage
Corn Poppy
Cornflower
Lesser Knapweed
Musk Mallow
Ox-Eye Daisy
Red Campion
Red Clover Wild
Ribwort Plantain
Salad Burnett
Self Heal
White Campion
Yarrow
Autumn Hawksbit
Birdsfoot Trefoil
Betony
Corn Poppy
Devil Bits Scabious
Lady's Bedstaw
Meadow Buttercup
Musk Mallow
Ox-Eye Daisy
Red Campion
Ribwort Plantain
Self Heal
White Campion
Wild Carrot
Yarrow
Yellow Rattle
Birdsfoot Trefoil
Betony
Cornflower
Corn Poppy
Field Scabious
Lady's Bedstaw
Lesser Knapweed
Meadow Buttercup
Meadow Vetchling
Musk Mallow
Ox-Eye Daisy
Ragged Robin
Red Campion
Ribwort Plantain
Rough Hawkbit
Salad Burnet
Self Heal
Small Scabious
Sorrel
White Campion
Wild Carrot
Yarrow
Yellow Rattle
Autumn Hawkbit
Betony
Birdsfoot Trefoil
Corn Poppy
Lady's Bedstraw
Lesser Knapweed
Meadow Buttercup
Meadow Vetchling
Musk Mallow
Ox-Eye Daisy
Ragged Robin
Ribwort Plantain
Self Heal
Sorrel
White Campion
Wild Carrot
Yarrow
Yellow Rattle
Agrimony
Dark Mullein
Gipsy Wort
Hedge Bedstraw
Lesser Knapweed
Meadow Buttercup
Meadow Sweet
Ox-Eye Daisy
Ragged Robin
Red Campion
Ribwort Plantain
Self Heal
Sorrel
Water Avens
Water Betony
Yarrow
Yellow Rattle
Gipsy Wort
G. Birdsfoot Trefoil
Lesser Knapweed
Meadow Buttercup
Meadow Sweet
Pendulous Sedge
Purple Loosestrife
Ragged Robin
Red Campion
Self Heal
Teasel
Tufted Vetch
Water Avens
Yellow Flag Iris
Agrimony
Meadow Cranesbill
Birdsfoot Trefoil
Corn Poppy
Dark Mullein
Kidney Vetch
Lady's Bedstraw
Meadow Buttercup
Musk Mallow
Ox-Eye Daisy
Ribwort Plantain
Self Heal
Sorrel
White Campion
Wild Carrot
Yarrow
Yellow Rattle
Birdsfoot Trefoil
Common Vetch
Corn Poppy
Dropwort
Kidney Vetch
Meadow Cranesbill
Lady's Bedstraw
Meadow Buttercup
Musk Mallow
Ox-Eye Daisy
Rough Hawkbit
Ribwort Plantain
Salad Burnet
Self Heal
Common Sorrel
Small Scabious
Wild Carrot
Wild Marjoram
Betony
Bluebell Seed
Common Agrimony
Hedge Bedstraw
Hedge Garlic
Hedge Woundwort
Herb Bennet
Nettle Leaved Bell Flower
Ragged Robin
Red Campion
Self Heal
Square St Johns Wort
Sweet Cicely
Welsh Poppy
Wild Foxglove
Wood Sage
Agrimony
Betony
Bluebell Seed
Common Vetch
Dark Mullein
Hedge Bedstraw
Herb Bennet
Lesser Knapweed
Meadow Buttercup
Ox-Eye Daisy
Ragged Robin
Red Campion
Ribwort Plantain
Self Heal
Sorrel
Sweet Cicely
White Campion
Wild Foxglove
Hedge Garlic
Yarrow
Yellow Rattle
Seeds are best broadcast at a rate of 2 grams per square metre, unless directed otherwise on the packaging.
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