Special Projects

• New mix for 2012 to celebrate the Queens' Diamond Jubilee
• Red, White and Blue patriotic colours
• Flowers appear very quickly
• Will keep flowering until the end of September
• Mixture of medium height flowers 50- 60cm
• A mixture of 100% annual wildflowers and cultivated species
• Sow from mid march onwards
• Cultivated species will die out in late Autumn
• Sowing Rate: 100% 3-4gms/sq.m
• Mixture contents and information

• Client - Weymouth Bay Holiday Park
• Location - Weymouth, Dorset
• Mixture name - Renovator
• Easy to establish and hard wearing grass seed mixture, commonly used to repair and renovate.
  
• Sowing Rate - 100kg /acre

• Client - Woody's Adventure World
• Location - Doncaster, South Yorkshire
• Mixture name - ELS2 Buffer Strip and Field Corner
  
• Mixture type - To establish a natural sward on the high banks shielding the park from the view and noise of traffic.
  
• Sowing Rate - 8kg /acre

• Client - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
• Location - Frampton Marsh, Boston, Lincolnshire
• Mixture name - Special Wild Bird Seed Mixture
• Mixture type - This seed mixture is designed to provide ground cover in marshy, exposed areas and attract wild birds.
• Sowing Rate - 50kg per hectare

• For warmer, sunnier climates (ie Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, southern France, Spain)
• Would require regular watering during drought periods.
• Contains 70% amenity tall fescue, 10% slender red fescue and 20% amenity turf perennial ryegrass.
• 20kg will cover 400-500m² if sown at 40-50 grm/m²
• Mowing height 25-50mm

• Client - J Murphy and Sons
• Location - Farningham to Hadlow, Kent
• Mixture name - Fairlawne Park Grass Seed Mixture, Semi-Improved Pasture Grass Seed Mixture, Stewardship Specie Rich Grasses Mixture and Horse & Classic Horse Paddock Seed Mixture
• A range of mixtures 'mixed and matched' to reinstate the varying local environs affected by the new pipeline.
• Sowing Rate - Classic Horse Paddock 14kg /acre, Stewardship Specie Rich 8kg /acre, Semi-Improved Pasture 8kg /acre, Fairlawne Park 8kg /acre
• Mixture contents and information

• Client - Environment Agency
• Location - Cambridgeshire Fens
• Mixture name - EA Special Mixture No.4 -ryegrass based & EA Special Mixture No.10 - no ryegrass 
• Robust, deep-rooted and quick establishing grass mixtures for use along the banks and surrounds of waterways.
• Sowing Rate - 16kg /acre

Mixture contents and information

• Client - Boston United FC
• Location - Boston, Lincolnshire
• Mixture name - Renovator
• Renovator is an excellent end of season repair mixture for overseeding soccer pitches. Groundsman, Nobby Croston, visited Wembley Stadium to collect his trophy for coming third in the National Non-League Best Playing Surface.
• Sowing Rate - 100kg /acre

For something different we offer a range of Wildflower mixes that would make ideal wedding favours if planted into small pots/ pails, or even put into pouches for your guests to plant the seed and watch them grow for themselves. We would recommend using either the BS9 100% Cornfield Annuals or the BSX 100%: Dual Purpose Wildflower Seed Mixture for " instant" colour.

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• Client - The Zoological Society of London
• Location - Whipsnade Animal Park, Bedfordshire
• Mixture name - Wildflower Meadow & Field Margin & BS4 Damp Loamy Soil Wildflower Mixture
• To provide a suitable and natural environment for corncrake chicks to thrive.The project involves releasing hand-reared corncrakes which have been bred and reared at Whipsnade Zoo and then transferred as chicks to rearing pens at the Nene Washes.
• Sowing Rate - Wildflower Meadow 20kg /acre

• Client - Woodland Trust
• Location - Heartwood Forest, Hertfordshire
• Mixture name - Heartwood Special Grass Seed Mixture & BS9 Cornfield Annuals
  
• A grass seed mixture to be established before trees will be planted. A cornfield annual mixture to provide visual impact in amenity areas.
  
• Sowing Rate - Grass seed mix 12kg /acre                      

Mixture contents and information