Description
Pond Edge Mix (SCF16)
For marshy conditions or water margins, these wildflowers provide interest & colour around the edges of ponds. Adding appropriate native plants around ponds will encourage pond-dwellers like toads, frogs, newts & dragonflies. There are 22 native Scottish wildflower species in this mix. Mix contents PDF.
| SOWING RATE: 2g / m2 |
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| (8kg / acre, 20kg / hectare) |
| Species | Common name | % |
| 100 | % wildflowers | |
| Achillea ptarmica | Sneezewort | 7 |
| Angelica sylvestris | Angelica | 1 |
| Caltha palustris | Marsh Marigold | 0.5 |
| Carex leporina | Oval sedge | 5 |
| Carex paniculata | Greater Tussock Sedge | 2 |
| Carex pendula | Pendulous Sedge | 5 |
| Cirsium palustre | Marsh Thistle | 2 |
| Comarum palustre | Marsh Cinquefoil | 0.2 |
| Filipendula ulmaria | Meadowsweet | 14 |
| Galium palustre | Marsh Bedstraw | 3 |
| Geum rivale | Water Avens | 7 |
| Hypericum tetrapterum | Square stemmed St John’s wort | 3 |
| Iris pseudacorus | Yellow Flag Iris | 26 |
| Lotus uliginosus | Greater Trefoil | 5 |
| Lythrum salicaria | Purple Loosestrife | 6 |
| Mentha aquatica | Water Mint | 1 |
| Myosotis scorpioides | Water Forget me not | 1 |
| Silene flos-cuculi | Ragged Robin | 5 |
| Stachys palustris | Marsh Woundwort | 0.5 |
| Typha latifolia | Reedmace | 0.5 |
| Valeriana officinalis | Valerian | 2.5 |
| Veronica beccabunga | Brooklime | 2.8 |
