BS Dry Soils Wildflower Plug Plant Collection
Wildflower plants for dry and sandy soils. Choose our selection of wildflower plug plants for chalky soils to create a beautiful wildflower area in your garden, landscape or meadow.
- Dry soil plugs - small plug plant species available from our range, ideal for dry areas -tolerant of drought conditions and suitable for green roofs.
- A minimum of 10 species will be chosen from the list and used in equal quantities
- Contents of Dry Soils Wildflower Plant Collection
Mixture Specification
A minimum of 10 species will be chosen from the list and used in equal quantities
- Anthyllis vulneraria - Kidney Vetch Plug Plants
- Centaurea nigra - Common Knapweed Plug Plants
- Centaurea scabiosa - Greater Knapweed Plug Plants
- Daucus carota - Wild Carrot Plug Plants
- Galium verum - Lady's Bedstraw Plug Plants
- Knautia arvensis - Field Scabious Plug Plants
- Leucanthemum vulgare - Oxeye Daisy Plug Plants
- Linaria vulgaris - Common Toadflax Plug Plants
- Lotus corniculatus - Birdsfoot Trefoil Plug Plants
- Malva moschata - Musk Mallow Plug Plants
- Plantago media - Hoary Plantain Plug Plants
- Primula veris - Cowslip Plug Plants
- Prunella vulgaris - Self Heal Plug Plants
- Silene vulgaris - Bladder Campion Plug Plants
- Verbascum nigrum - Dark Mullein Plug Plants
Sowing & Establishment
How to plant your wildflower plants
1 - Open up the box
On arrival open the boxes immediately, lightly water and leave them in good sunlight until they are required for planting. This will help them recover from being in transit. Ideally, they are best planted within a few days of arrival but will be ok if kept watered with access to sunlight.
2 - What to expect
These are supplied as plug plants and are a standard 40cc plug, roughly the length of your index finger. Most wildflowers die back in the winter but will still have a good root base.
3 - Planting time
Planting can be done year round providing the soil is moist and you will find the plants generally do better being planted in situ rather than being potted on. The optimum time for sowing is from September – May. Hold off planting if the soil is dry, waterlogged, hard or frozen.
4 - Preparation
Any grass should be close-mown prior to planting and the cuttings removed. It's advisable to clear/ mow the grass to around 10cm from around the plug until they are well established and remove any cuttings.
5 - Planting
To remove the plugs from the tray gently squeeze each one from the base and slowly pull it out.
6 - Depth and Spacing
Using a trowel or dibber, make a hole in the ground as deep as the plug itself. Plant the plugs 5 per square metre. Insert the plug and gently firm the soil around it and water well until established.
7 - Flowering
Sit back, relax and look forward to beautiful spring flowers! They may not always flower in their first year.
8 - Aftercare
Once your flowers have finished flowering, leave them to die back naturally. You can remove any dead foliage once the plant has finished seeding in the Autumn and take it back to around 10cm and remove the cuttings.
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