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BS No.2 Field Margin (+ Cocksfoot)

  • This mixture provides the main ingredients for a meadow to naturalise
  • Includes cocksfoot for height and clump forming for cover
  • Mixture includes: meadow fescue, creeping red fescue, cocksfoot, timothy and tall fescue
  • Suitable for Entry Level Stewardship (ELS) - EF1, EF7, EE1, EE2, EE3, EE8
  • Sowing rate: 20 kilos - 50 kilos per hectare. Pack size: 20 kilos
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BS No.6 Field Margin


  • This mixture excludes cocksfoot and will naturalise in a meadow; can be incorporated with wild flower mixtures
  • Includes slow growing grasses with attractive seed heads
  • Mixture includes: meadow fescue, creeping red fescue, Chewing's fescue, timothy, sheeps fescue
  • Suitable for ELS - EE1, EE2, EE3, EF7
  • Sowing rate: 20 kilos - 50 kilos per hectare. Pack size: 20 kilos
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BS No.8 Field Margin (+ Cocksfoot & Clover)


  • Will create a meadow type mixture for naturalising; the majority being slow growing species. Wild flowers mixtures can be included
  • Contains meadow fescue, creeping red fescue, cocksfoot, timothy, tall fescue, birdsfoot trefoil and small leaved white clover
  • With the inclusion of clovers this will attract insects, butterflies and bees 
  • Will provide habitat for ground nesting birds
  • Suitable for ELS - EE1, EE2, EE3, EE7, EE8
  • Sowing rate: 20 kilos per hectare. Pack size: 20 kilos
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BS No.12 Wildlife Seed Mixture


  • Contains 70% spring cereal, 10% kale, 10% quinoa, 10% yellow blossom clover
  • Attractive to seed eating birds i.e. chaffinches, yellow hammers and ground nesting birds such as skylarks; also food for mammals and insects 
  • Suitable for wildlife set-aside, may last for 2 years 
  • Sowing rate: 40 kilos per hectare. Pack size: 20 kilos
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BS No.15 Pollen & Nector

  • Includes 20% of pollen and nectar rich species to attract wild birds, insects, butterflies and bees - red clover, alsike, birdsfoot trefoil, sainfoin, common vetch, black medic
  • 80% grass species that are slow growing with attractive seed heads - meadow fescue, creeping red fescue, cocksfoot, timothy, tall fescue, smooth stalked meadow grass
  • Sowing rate: 20 kilos - 40 kilos per hectare. Packed in 20 kilo bags
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BSWF10: Wildflower Meadow and Field Margins

    • An inexpensive mixture to sow large areas with wildflowers or use it in conjunction with one our other wildflower meadow mixtures
    • Wild grasses, legumes and wildflowers form the basis for of this environmentally enhancing mixture, providing a rich habit for insects, birds and small mammals.
    • Contains 8 meadow grass species along with, Black knapweed, Birdsfoot trefoil, Self heal, Ladys bedstraw, Black medic, Red clover, Ox-eye daisy, Yarrow and Sainfoin 
    • Sowing rate  = 40-50kg per hectare. Packsize = 10kg
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    Wild Life Grasses - grass seed to attract birds & insects

    • Contains perennial ryegrass, timothy, meadow fescue, creeping red fescue, sheeps fescue, sainfoin, birdsfoot trefoil, lucerne & chicory
    • With the inclusion of a small percentage of perennial ryegrass this will establish quicker and form an open sward
    • The clover species and chicory will be a source of nectar that will attract many types of small mammals, insects, butterflies & bees
    • Sowing rate: 20 kilos per hectare. Pack size: 20 kilos
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    Species Rich Wild Grasses - grass seed for margin use

    • Contains sheep's fescue, timothy, crested dogstail, meadow fescue, rough-stalked meadow grass, smooth-stalked meadow grass, creeping red fescue, bentgrass, cocksfoot
    • A species rich blend that will tolerate a wide variety of soil types
    • The slow growing grasses allows the inclusion of wild flowers for further enhancement of the landscape.
    • Provides a food source for many insects and butterflies
    • Sowing rate: 20 kilos per hectare. Pack size: 20 kilos
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