Create a Low Flowering Mowable Wild Flower Lawn

This is my unique seed mix to create a wonderful low flowering wild flower lawn, that you can mow to keep short and tidy.

Containing 26 beautiful wild flower species including wild orchid, wild thyme, lawn chamomile, wild marjoram and other gorgeous species to delight your senses. This mixture is fantastic for bees and butterflies as well as humans. The lawn will tolerate a cut height of about 2 inches. This mix contains a high ratio of 30% wild flowers to grasses. It will cope with some shade, so long as you see sky when you look up, then it’s fine seeding it in that location.

If you want no grasses, view my ‘Grass-free Low Flowering Lawn‘ seed mix.

What’s in the mix

Species	Latin name	Average number of seeds contained within a 33m² seeding pack
Birds-foot-trefoil	Lotus corniculatus	2,053
Bulbous Buttercup	Ranunculus bulbosus	172
Common Knapweed	Centaurea nigra	92
Common Spotted Orchid	Dactylorhiza fuchsii	500
Cowslip	Primula veris	176
Creeping Buttercup	Ranunculus repens	585
Eyebright	Euphrasia officinalis	20
Germander Speedwell	Veronica chamaedrys	90
Greater Birds-foot-trefoil	Lotus pedunculatus	320
Kidney Vetch	Anthyllis vulneraria	224
Lady’s Bedstraw	Galium verum	2,000
Lawn Chamomile	Anthemis noblis	266
Lawn Daisy	Bellis perennis	266
Meadow Vetchling	Lathyrus pratensis	70
Oxeye Daisy	Leucanthemum vulgare	190
Ragged Robin	Silene flos-cuculi	300
Red Clover	Trifolium pratense	1,520
Ribwort Plantain	Plantago lanceolata	100
Salad Burnet	Poterium sanguisorba	440
Selfheal	Prunella vulgaris	4,380
Sorrel	Rumex acetosa	200
Sheep’s Sorrel	Rumex acetosella	106
White Clover	Trifolium repens	2,053
Wild Marjoram	Origanum vulgare	250
Wild Thyme	Thymus polytrichus	50
Yarrow	Achillea millefolium	320

Grasses
Slender Creeping Red Fescue	Festuca rubra
Sweet Vernal-grass	Anthoxanthum odoratum
Sheep’s Fescue	Festuca ovina
Common Bent	Agrostis capillaris
Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass	Poa pratensis
Smaller Cat’s-tail	Phleum bertolonii
Crested Dog’s-tail	Cynosurus cristatus
Quaking Grass	Briza media

To receive good flowering maintain a mowing frequency of about one cut every 3 to 6 weeks for the majority of the summer but you can be flexible with this.

This wild flower lawn seed mix is suitable for any soil and will come up year after year without the need for reseeding.

Once established this species rich mix will display a wide range of some of our most beautiful native wild flowers with different flowers coming into bloom from spring, through summer and even into the autumn to produce a continuous show of colour.

If it is left uncut during the summer it will look similar to the picture below where it was sown beneath a young apple orchard.

View our wildflower lawn turf for an instant alternative to seeding.

My native seed mixtures are unique, so please browse through their contents by scrolling further down this page and you will see a much greater variety of species than is usually obtainable within a commercially available mix. Many of the species present are not found in other seed mixtures. This mix is more expensive than my other mixes due to the scarcity of some of the species included.

What my customers say:
Dear Colin, Just writing to let you know that I’m absolutely delighted with the low flowering lawn mix of yours. This is its 2nd ‘summer’ and it’s exceeded all expectations. I’m up in Aberdeen’ where many folk told me I’d bought seed from too far south. My pride and joy just now is the common spotted orchid! The bees are loving the birds foot trefoil. Your sowing instructions were superb, logical and so easy to follow. Thanks again for a wonderful colourful bee-friendly patch of lawn. Regards, Pete Jeffels, Aberdeen.

To learn more view my instruction sheet on how to create a low flowering lawn.