Fleurs Champêtres – perennial mix

Description

Fleurs Champêtres is a flower seed mixture from the EconSeeds catalogue (Graines Bertrand brand), from the Les Paysagers & Durables range – multi-year landscape mixtures. This mixture is appealing for its diversity. Its character expresses itself differently depending on when it is sown. With a spring sowing, the annuals are what mark the mixture. Sown in autumn, the mixture's second profile asserts itself, with the biennials and perennials.

Advantages

• natural decorative effect that evolves throughout the season

• established by direct sowing, no planting required

• Les Paysagers & Durables range: multi-year landscape mixtures

• suited to low-maintenance landscaping

Specifications

• Product code: MP08357

• Range: Les Paysagers & Durables

• Life cycle: Multi-year (annuals and perennials)

• Composition: 28 annuals and 24 perennials

• Sowing period: best in March–June and September–October; also possible in July–August; November only as a dormant sowing

• Flowering period: May–September (in summer of the first year when spring-sown, then from spring in following years)

• Height: 50–100 cm

• Sowing rate: 2–4 g/m²

Composition

Pot marigold, Soapwort, Flax, Dame's rocket, Wallflower, Mallow (Lavatera), Common poppy, Corncockle, Coreopsis, Oxeye daisy, Chrysanthemum, Anthemis, Blanketflower, Malope, Sweet William.

Sowing method

Prepare the ground as for a lawn: remove weeds including roots, loosen the soil to about 10 cm and level it. Mix the seed with fine sand for even distribution, broadcast it, firm lightly and water with a fine spray. Do not bury the seed deeply.

Maintenance

Water until emergence and weed as needed. Multi-year mixtures should be cut above 15 cm, once or twice a year after flowering, to encourage the plants to start again.