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Advice
- Spring has sprung! - when can we start sowing?
- Autumn sowing deadlines
- Haytime 2020
- Sowing deadlines for Spring?
- Equinox - a time to 'spring clean' meadows
- 70 Yellow rattle sowing days left until Christmas!
- Spring mowing to reduce grass vigour
- Autumn mowing to restore balance.
- Horses, wild flower and herb rich meadows, and buttercups
- Autumn Sowing Deadlines 2015
- Spring sowing: timing and deadlines
- 50 yellow rattle sowing days left until Christmas!
- Haytime
- Spring mowing reduces grass vigour
- Autumn mowing to restore balance
- Flowering lawns - give your mower a holiday!
- Autumn sowing deadlines 2011
- DRY SPRING SOWING UPDATE
- A time for sowing
- Lammas day in cornfields
- Spring sowing tips 2010
- How to get cornfield annual plots to flower again in 2010 - new video
- Autumn sowing deadlines
- May sowing update
- Taming Lush Spring Growth
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Events
- Scythe and Grassland courses and events 2020
- Meadows Demonstration Open Days 2020
- Wood meadow management and scything demonstration day Sat 3rd August 2019.
- Orchard grassland management & Practical scything workshop
- SCYTHE AND GRASSLAND COURSES AND EVENTS 2019
- Scythe and Grassland Courses and Events 2018
- Winter Talks
- WILD FLOWER AND GRASSLAND TRAINING EVENTS 2017
- SCYTHE TRAINING EVENTS AND COURSES 2017
- Wild flower and grassland training events 2016
- SCYTHE TRAINING EVENTS AND COURSES 2016
- Scythe training events and courses 2015
- Wild flower and grassland management training events 2015
- MEADOW MANAGEMENT & SCYTHE TRAINING 2014
- MEADOW MANAGEMENT & SCYTHE TRAINING 2013
- Meadow management & scythe training 2012
- Training events 2011
- Meadow management and scythe training JUNE 2011
- Wild flower and Biodiversity Training events July 2010
- Meadow management and Scythe Training events June 2010
- Wild flower & Scythe training events June and July 2009
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News
- COVID 19
- Yellow rattle spring watch 2020
- Yellow rattle spring watch 2019
- Wild flowers and Rewilding
- Blue butterflies return after sowing wild flowers
- The plight of the solitary bee
- Yellow Rattle Springwatch 2018
- Poppies
- Sow in snow?
- Native Seed Conference at Kew Gardens
- Monty Don on Scythes
- Cricklade revisited
- When is the latest time to sow seeds in spring?
- Yellow Rattle Springwatch 2017
- The ancient art of rake making
- Yellow rattle spring watch 2016
- Richard’s scythe workshop
- RSPB Nature's Home magazine feature
- YELLOW RATTLE SPRINGWATCH 2015
- Spring Sowing Update
- Yellow Rattle Springwatch 2012
- Yellow Rattle Springwatch 2011
- Oxborough scything demonstration and meadow question time
- Dry weather delays seedling emergence
- Scythe versus Strimmer 2010
- Yellow rattle ‘Springwatch’ 2010
- Wildflower diversity linked to the health of bees and other pollinating insects
- Biodiversity is life
- Winter wildlife snow shelters
- 2009: A Record year for restoring wildflowers to farmland
- Scythe beats Strimmer in mowing contest
- Heritage wheat and other plant varieties - EC regulations relaxed
- Emorsgate's founder marries 'page 3' flower girl
- Yellow rattle ‘Springwatch’ 2009
- RHS Grassland Characters
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Advice
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Species
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Wild Flowers
- Achillea millefolium (Yarrow)
- Adonis annua (Pheasant's-eye)
- Agrimonia eupatoria (Agrimony)
- Agrostemma githago (Corncockle)
- Alliaria petiolata (Garlic Mustard)
- Allium schoenoprasum (Chives)
- Allium ursinum (Ramsons)
- Althaea officinalis (Marsh-mallow)
- Angelica sylvestris (Wild Angelica)
- Anthriscus sylvestris (Cow Parsley)
- Anthyllis vulneraria (Kidney Vetch)
- Aquilegia vulgaris (Columbine)
- Arctium minus (Lesser Burdock)
- Armeria maritima (Thrift (Sea Pink))
- Arum maculatum (Lords-and-Ladies)
- Barbarea vulgaris (Winter Cress)
- Betonica officinalis - (Stachys officinalis) (Betony)
- Bistorta officinalis - (Persicaria bistorta) (Common Bistort)
- Buglossoides arvensis - (Lithospermum arvense) (Field Gromwell)
- Bupleurum rotundifolium (Thorow-wax)
- Calluna vulgaris (Ling - (Common Heather))
- Caltha palustris (Marsh Marigold)
- Campanula glomerata (Clustered Bellflower)
- Campanula rotundifolia (Harebell)
- Campanula trachelium (Nettle-leaved Bellflower)
- Capsella bursa-pastoris (Shepherd's-purse )
- Carlina vulgaris (Carline Thistle)
- Centaurea cyanus (Cornflower)
- Centaurea nigra (Common Knapweed)
- Centaurea scabiosa (Greater Knapweed)
- Chaerophyllum temulum (Rough Chervil)
- Chelidonium majus (Greater Celandine)
- Cirsium eriophorum (Woolly Thistle)
- Clinopodium vulgare (Wild Basil)
- Comarum palustris - (Potentilla palustris) (Marsh Cinquefoil)
- Cota austriaca (Anthemis austriaca) (Corn Chamomile)
- Cruciata laevipes (Crosswort)
- Cynoglossum officinale (Houndstongue)
- Daucus carota (Wild Carrot)
- Dianthus armeria (Deptford Pink)
- Dianthus deltoides (Maiden Pink)
- Digitalis purpurea (Foxglove)
- Dipsacus fullonum (Wild Teasel)
- Dipsacus pilosus (Small Teasel)
- Echium vulgare (Viper's Bugloss)
- Epilobium tetragonum (Square-stalked Willowherb)
- Erigeron acris (Blue Fleabane)
- Eryngium maritimum (Sea Holly)
- Eupatorium cannabinum (Hemp Agrimony)
- Euphrasia officinalis (Eyebright)
- Filipendula ulmaria (Meadowsweet)
- Filipendula vulgaris (Dropwort)
- Galeopsis tetrahit (Common Hemp-nettle)
- Galium album - (Galium mollugo) (Hedge Bedstraw)
- Galium verum (Lady's Bedstraw)
- Genista tinctoria (Dyer's Greenweed)
- Geranium lucidum (Shining Crane's-bill)
- Geranium pratense (Meadow Crane's-bill)
- Geranium pyrenaicum (Hedgerow Crane's-bill)
- Geranium sanguineum (Bloody Crane's-bill )
- Geranium sylvaticum (Wood Cranesbill)
- Geum rivale (Water Avens)
- Geum urbanum (Wood Avens)
- Glebionis segetum - (Chrysanthemum segetum) (Corn Marigold)
- Helianthemum nummularium (Common Rock-rose)
- Heracleum sphondylium (Hogweed)
- Hippocrepis comosa (Horseshoe Vetch)
- Hyacinthoides non-scripta (Bluebell)
- Hypericum perforatum (Perforate St John's Wort)
- Hypericum tetrapterum (Square-stalked St John's Wort)
- Hypochaeris radicata (Catsear)
- Iberis amara (Wild Candytuft)
- Inula conyzae (Ploughman's-spikenard)
- Iris foetidissima (Gladdon)
- Iris pseudacorus (Yellow Iris)
- Jasione montana (Sheep's-bit)
- Knautia arvensis (Field Scabious)
- Lamium purpureum (Red Dead-nettle)
- Lapsana communis (Nipplewort)
- Lathyrus nissolia (Grass Vetchling)
- Lathyrus pratensis (Meadow Vetchling)
- Lathyrus sylvestris (Narrow-leaved Everlasting-pea)
- Leontodon hispidus (Rough Hawkbit)
- Leucanthemum vulgare (Oxeye Daisy - (Moon Daisy))
- Linaria vulgaris (Common Toadflax)
- Linum bienne (Pale Flax)
- Linum catharticum (Fairy Flax)
- Lotus corniculatus (Birdsfoot Trefoil)
- Lotus pedunculatus (Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil)
- Lycopus europaeus (Gypsywort)
- Lysimachia arvensis - (Anagallis arvensis) (Scarlet Pimpernel)
- Lysimachia vulgaris (Yellow Loosestrife)
- Lythrum salicaria (Purple Loosestrife)
- Malva arborea - (Lavatera arborea) (Tree Mallow)
- Malva moschata (Musk Mallow)
- Matricaria chamomilla - (Matricaria recutita) (Scented Mayweed)
- Medicago lupulina (Black Medick)
- Mentha aquatica (Water Mint)
- Misopates orontium (Weasel's-snout)
- Myosotis arvensis (Field Forget-me-not)
- Myrrhis odorata (Sweet Cicely)
- Oenanthe pimpinelloides (Corky-fruited Water-dropwort)
- Onobrychis viciifolia (Sainfoin)
- Ononis spinosa (Spiny Restharrow)
- Origanum vulgare (Wild Marjoram)
- Ornithogalum pyrenaicum (Bath Asparagus)
- Papaver dubium (Long-headed Poppy)
- Papaver rhoeas (Common Poppy)
- Pastinaca sativa (Wild Parsnip)
- Pimpinella major (Greater Burnet-saxifrage)
- Pimpinella saxifraga (Burnet-saxifrage)
- Plantago lanceolata (Ribwort Plantain)
- Plantago media (Hoary Plantain)
- Poterium sanguisorba - (Sanguisorba minor) (Salad Burnet)
- Primula elatior (Oxlip)
- Primula veris (Cowslip)
- Primula vulgaris (Primrose)
- Prunella vulgaris (Selfheal)
- Pulicaria dysenterica (Common Fleabane)
- Ranunculus acris (Meadow Buttercup)
- Ranunculus arvensis (Corn Buttercup)
- Ranunculus bulbosus (Bulbous Buttercup)
- Reseda lutea (Wild Mignonette)
- Reseda luteola (Weld)
- Rhinanthus minor (Yellow Rattle)
- Rumex acetosa (Common Sorrel)
- Rumex acetosella (Sheep's Sorrel)
- Rumex sanguineus (Wood Dock)
- Salvia verbenaca (Wild Clary)
- Sanguisorba officinalis (Great Burnet)
- Saponaria officinalis (Soapwort)
- Saxifraga granulata (Meadow Saxifrage)
- Scabiosa columbaria (Small Scabious)
- Scorzoneroides autumnalis - (Leontodon autumnalis) (Autumn Hawkbit)
- Scrophularia auriculata (Water Figwort)
- Scutellaria galericulata (Skullcap)
- Sherardia arvensis (Field Madder)
- Silaum silaus (Pepper Saxifrage)
- Silene dioica (Red Campion)
- Silene flos-cuculi - (Lychnis flos-cuculi) (Ragged Robin)
- Silene latifolia (White Campion)
- Silene noctiflora (Night-flowering Catchfly)
- Silene uniflora (Sea Campion)
- Silene vulgaris (Bladder Campion)
- Stachys sylvatica (Hedge Woundwort)
- Stellaria holostea (Greater Stitchwort)
- Succisa pratensis (Devil's-bit Scabious)
- Tanacetum vulgare (Tansy)
- Taraxacum officinale (Dandelion)
- Teucrium scorodonia (Wood Sage)
- Thalictrum flavum (Common Meadow-rue)
- Thlaspi arvense (Field Penny-cress )
- Torilis japonica (Upright Hedge-parsley)
- Tragopogon pratensis (Goat's-beard)
- Trifolium arvense (Hare's-foot Clover)
- Trifolium ochroleucon (Sulphur Clover)
- Trifolium pratense (Wild Red Clover)
- Tripleurospermum inodorum (Scentless Mayweed)
- Verbascum nigrum (Dark Mullein)
- Verbascum thapsus (Great Mullein)
- Verbena officinalis (Vervain)
- Veronica persica (Common Field-speedwell)
- Vicia cracca (Tufted Vetch)
- Vicia sativa ssp. segetalis (Common Vetch)
- Viola odorata (Sweet Violet)
- Viola riviniana (Common Dog-violet)
- Viola tricolor (Wild Pansy)
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Wild Grasses and Sedges
- Agrostis capillaris (Common Bent (w))
- Agrostis stolonifera (Creeping Bent (w))
- Agrostis vinealis (Brown Bent (w))
- Alopecurus geniculatus (Marsh Foxtail (w))
- Alopecurus pratensis (Meadow Foxtail (w))
- Anthoxanthum odoratum (Sweet Vernal-grass (w))
- Arrhenatherum elatius (False Oat-grass (w))
- Avenella flexuosa - (Deschampsia flexuosa) (Wavy Hair-grass (w))
- Avenula pubescens - (Helictotrichon pubescens) (Downy Oat-grass (w))
- Brachypodium sylvaticum (False Brome (w))
- Briza media (Quaking Grass (w))
- Bromopsis erecta (Upright Brome (w))
- Bromus commutatus (Meadow Brome (w))
- Bromus hordeaceus (Soft Brome (w))
- Carex flacca (Glaucous Sedge)
- Carex pendula (Pendulous Sedge)
- Cynosurus cristatus (Crested Dogstail (w))
- Dactylis glomerata (Cocksfoot (w))
- Deschampsia cespitosa (Tufted Hair-grass (w))
- Festuca ovina (Sheep's Fescue (w))
- Festuca rubra (Red Fescue (w))
- Festuca rubra ssp litoralis (Red Fescue (w))
- Helictochloa pratensis - (Avenula pratensis) (Meadow Oat-grass (w))
- Hordeum secalinum (Meadow Barley (w))
- Koeleria macrantha (Crested Hair-grass (w))
- Lolium perenne (Perennial Ryegrass (w))
- Luzula campestris (Field Wood-rush)
- Phleum bertolonii (Smaller Cat's-tail (w))
- Phragmites australis (Common Reed)
- Schedonorus arundinaceus - (Festuca arundinacea) (Tall Fescue (w))
- Schedonorus pratensis - (Festuca pratensis) (Meadow Fescue (w))
- Trisetum flavescens (Yellow Oat-grass (w))
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Other Grasses
- Agrostis capillaris (Common Bent)
- Agrostis castellana (Highland Bent)
- Agrostis stolonifera (Creeping Bent)
- Arrhenatherum elatius (False Oat-grass)
- Cynosurus cristatus (Crested Dogstail)
- Dactylis glomerata (Cocksfoot)
- Festuca ovina (Sheep's Fescue)
- Festuca rubra (Slender-creeping Red-fescue)
- Festuca rubra (Strong-creeping Red-fescue)
- Festuca rubra ssp. commutata (Chewing's Fescue)
- Holcus lanatus (Yorkshire Fog)
- Lolium multiflorum (Westerwolds Ryegrass)
- Lolium perenne (Perennial Ryegrass)
- Phleum bertolonii (Smaller Cat's-tail)
- Phleum pratense (Timothy)
- Poa nemoralis (Wood Meadow-grass)
- Poa pratensis (Smooth-stalked Meadow-grass)
- Poa trivialis (Rough-stalked Meadow-grass)
- Puccinellia distans (Reflexed Saltmarsh-grass)
- Schedonorus arundinaceus (Festuca arundinacea) (Tall Fescue)
- Schedonorus pratensis (Festuca pratensis) (Meadow Fescue)
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Other clovers, legumes and herbs
- Achillea millefolium (Yarrow)
- Centaurea nigra (Knapweed)
- Lotus corniculatus (Birdsfoot Trefoil (Ag))
- Medicago lupulina (Black Medick (Ag))
- Onobrychis viciifolia (Sainfoin (Ag))
- Plantago lanceolata (Ribwort Plantain)
- Trifolium hybridum (Alsike Clover (Ag))
- Trifolium pratense (Red Clover (Ag))
- Trifolium repens (Small Leaved White Clover (Ag))
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Wild Flowers
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Mixtures
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Meadow and Grassland
- General purpose meadow mixtures
- Meadow mixtures for different soil types
- Wild harvested meadow mixtures
- Other grassland mixtures
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100% wild flower mixtures
- EL1F – Wild flowers for lawns
- EM10F – Tussock wild flowers
- EM1F – Basic general purpose wild flowers
- EM2F – Standard general purpose wild flowers
- EM3F – Special general purpose wild flowers
- EM4F – Wild flowers for clay soils
- EM5F – Wild flowers for loamy soils
- EM6F – Wild flowers for chalk & limestone soils
- EM7F – Wild flowers for sandy soils
- ER1F – Wild flowers for green roofs
- 100% meadow grass mixtures
- 100% wild grass mixtures
- Wetland and Pond
- Hedge and Woodland
- Cornfield Annuals
- Other Mixtures
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Meadow and Grassland