Description
Flowers for Wildlife – RHS Cool Mix Seeds
Easy to shake and sow this Cool Mix of Plants for Pollinators will give you a summer of beautiful flowers in cool blue and white hues.
Carefully selected by the RHS in conjunction with well known seed suppliers Mr Fothergills, this scatter seed mix will cover approximately 10 to 20 square meters of garden with plants bees and other pollinators will love to visit. The box consists of 20g of plant seeds for pollinators mixed with buckwheat husks to help disperse the seeds more evenly, the buckwheat will degrade naturally in the soil leaving you with lots of colourful plants.
The Oh Sow Simple – Cool Mix contains seeds of mainly annual plants, these are:
- Lupinus nanus ‘Pixie Blue‘
- Lupinus nanus ‘Pixie Snow‘
- Nemesia versicolor ‘Blue Bird‘
- Browallia americana ‘Sky Blue‘
- Callistephus chinensis ‘Starlight Blue‘
- Centaurea cyanus ‘Midget Snow‘
- Cynoglossum zeylanicum ‘Chill Out‘
- Dimorphotheca pluvialis ‘Tetra Polar Star‘
- Eschscholzia californica ‘Thai Silk Milkmaid‘
- Iberis amara ‘Mount Hood‘
- Nigella damascena ‘Moody Blues‘
- Omphalodes linifolia ‘Little Snow White‘
- Viscaria oculata ‘Blue Angel‘
- Zinnia hybrida ‘Molino White‘
- Viscaria oculata ‘White Angel‘
Coverage – 10-20 sq. metre depending on how densley the mix is sown
Sowing Times – April – June, sow directly where they are to flower for best results as some species prefer not to be moved.
Flowering times – June – October
Plants from later spring sowings will flower later than described
Wildlife value – Mainly nectar use for pollinators rather than catapillar food plant or shelter.
The seeds come in a carboard box that can be recycled or composted. All sowing instructions and aftercare are on the box.
