EM11 Cricklade Mixture (lowland meadow)
Wild meadow mixtures are harvested directly from wild sites and are therefore more variable than our other mixtures.  Based on several years of analysis we present the main composition by seed number of species present in a typical harvest.  The actual composition of each harvest will vary and will include small amounts of a wide range of species that do not appear in the analysis.  Because ancient meadows are a finite and precious  resource, seed supplies from these sources are limited and we are only able to offer these mixtures subject to harvest and availability.

 

EM11 Cricklade Mixture is 'brush harvested' from North Meadow National Nature Reserve in Wiltshire, the finest lowland meadow in Britain.  North Meadow is a traditional water meadow, situated beside the upper River Thames on gravely clay soil.  The meadow occasionally floods in wet winters and is famous for the snakeshead fritillary.  Cricklade mixture is our best meadow mixture because of both its origin and species content.  It is suitable for sowing on most lowland soils, particularly in southern England.  We have been harvesting this mixture for many years and it has produced some excellent results.

 

The typical composition of EM11 is as follows:

 

EM11 Cricklade Mixture (lowland meadow)
%  

wild flowers
(% seed by number)

common name
0.6   Centaurea nigra Common Knapweed
0.1   Cerastium fontanum Common Mouse-ear
trace   Filipendula ulmaria Meadowsweet
1.7   Leontodon Hawkbit
0.6   Leucanthemum vulgare Oxeye Daisy
0.1   Lotus pedunculatus Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil
1.8   Plantago lanceolata Ribwort Plantain
8.0   Ranunculus acris Meadow Buttercup
8.0 Ranunculus bulbosus Bulbous Buttercup
15.5   Rhinanthus minor Yellow Rattle
trace   Sanguisorba officinalis Great Burnet
0.4   Silaum silaus Pepper-saxifrage
1.3   Trifolium pratense Red Clover
%  

grasses & sedges
(% seed by number)

  
0.1   Alopecurus pratensis Meadow Foxtail
0.1   Anthoxanthum odoratum Sweet Vernal-grass
1.1   Arrhenatherum elatius False Oat-grass
7.3   Briza media Quaking Grass
5.6   Bromus commutatus Meadow Brome
2.3   Carex sp. Sedges
12.0   Cynosurus cristatus Crested Dogstail
2.0   Dactylis glomerata Cocksfoot
0.1   Deschampsia cespitosa Tufted Hair-grass
0.7   Festuca pratensis Meadow Fescue
5.3   Festuca rubra Red Fescue
4.4   Holcus lanatus Yorkshire Fog
1.8   Hordeum secalinum Meadow Barley
14.0   Lolium perenne Perennial Ryegrass
0.4   Poa trivialis Rough Meadow-grass
0.1   Scirpus sp. Club Rush
4.6   Trisetum flavescens Yellow Oat-grass
 
 

 

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