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| This mixture is designed to tolerate a degree of shadiness. As with
meadow mixtures it is composed of 20% native wild flowers and 80% slow growing grasses (by weight), and the
flower and grass components are available separately as EH1(F)
for the flower component and EG9 for the grass
component.
EH1 contains wild flowers and grasses that are tolerant of semi-shade and is suitable for sowing beneath newly planted or established hedges and on woodland edges, rides and glades. Hedgerows and other semi-shaded communities usually sit on the boundary between one habitat type (e.g. open grassland) and another (e.g. closed tree canopy). The management requirements of EH1, once established, are very flexible and can be managed to fit in with adjacent vegetation types, whether there is a regime of annual cutting or no management.
EH1 can be used to repair past damage caused by farming too close to the hedge. Good perennial ground cover at the base of a hedge, combined with a headland strip sown with grasses or a meadow mixture, has been shown to help control problem arable weeds like cleavers and sterile brome.
The typical composition of EH1 is as follows:
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