AMENITY GRASS SEED and Wildflower Catalogue

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HEADSTART® GOLD 4

WINTER SPORTS & HORSE RACING 6

SUMMER SPORTS 10

GOLF AND BOWLS 12

SEED QUALITY - LANDSCAPE WITH RYEGRASS 18 IT’S IN THE BAG! If you want your grass to perform to the highest level, it is vital to start LANDSCAPE WITHOUT RYEGRASS 26 with a high quality technical mixture, and in today’s marketplace, this is not always easy. TURF PRODUCTION 30 The latest Designer range contains and mixtures that have been formulated to meet the demands of the modern Turf Manager, using the following performance standards: WILDFLOWERS 32

• Proven in the UK and European climates, Designer uses the latest cultivars, tested at the BSPB trials at Bingley and in European trialling centres. COLOUR SPLASH 40 • Designer uses top quality seed for very high germination and purity; more seeds, less weeds! SOWING RATES 46 • Designer seed undergoes a comprehensive quality control programme in our state of the art seed testing laboratory to ensure it exceeds industry standards. KEY CONTACTS 47 • Quality bonus - all Designer Seed is coated with our HEADSTART® GOLD non-toxic seed treatment to help ensure that each mixture gets off to the best possible start. Molybdenum (Mo) Phosphorus (P)

n Essential trace element n Essential for photosynthesis for initial growth and synthesis oils, sugars, n Required for enzymes starches and enzymes that are involved with n Ensures rapid rooting Biostimulants protein formation n Enhances stress resistance n Promote the supply of nutrients Copper (Cu) Sulphur (S) n Ensure efficient n Important trace n Basic building block for use of nutrients element for re-growth production of proteins, n Prevent deficiency n Part of enzymes in hormones & vitamins of trace elements photosynthesis / metabolism Enzyme Activity n Stimulates production n Stimulates growth of of lignin rigid cell walls Seaweed roots/shoots Your key to the successful establishment of all grass areas. Extract with n Provides energy to The revolutionary natural grass seed treatment that ensures start photosynthesis High Cytokinin rapid germination. Content n Promotes cell ® HEADSTART GOLD is the latest in performance-enhancing grass seed coatings for division & sports fields, golf courses, and amenity turf. metabolism n Leads to faster ® HEADSTART GOLD is a biological germination accelerator which is the second germination generation of the original HEADSTART® formula. HEADSTART® GOLD has been further developed and improved in a number of different ways through research, testing and field trials work. HEADSTART® GOLD includes major and micro nutrients which include Phosphorus, Sulphur, Copper and Molybdenum. These nutrients stimulate root formation, development and growth, ensuring that the seedling grass develops a strong root system during the critical start-up phase. This leads to better access to moisture and nutrients and makes the grass seedling stronger and more resistant to stress.

In a short time, HEADSTART® GOLD can help you by giving faster germination, creating stronger roots and ultimately, healthier and stronger amenity turf. The improved seed technology of HEADSTART® GOLD works to help improve amenity grass establishment in all situations. This, along with quality Designer seed, gives sports and amenity turf the best possible start.

HEADSTART® GOLD comes as standard on all Designer seed mixtures. Designer seed offers the highest quality seed in germination and purity standards, meeting the high demands and expectations of today's professional grass users. All mixtures are All mixtures are treated with treated with

ACTION REPLAY PREMIER SPORT

Winter Sports and Horse Racing CYRENA % Winter Sports and Horse Racing COLUMBINE % Perennial Ryegrass Perennial Ryegrass An excellent mixture to use when renovating 35 A superb mixture to use when constructing and 35 winter sports pitches and high wear areas. MELBOURNE % renovating football and rugby pitches. Premier CYRENA % Perennial Ryegrass Perennial Ryegrass Action Replay will germinate and establish 25 Sport will produce a hard wearing sward for all 30 COLUMBINE % HEIDRUN very quickly, producing a dense, hard-wearing Perennial Ryegrass 20 heavy duty sports areas. Strong Creeping % sward. Red Fescue 20 NAGANO % Perennial Ryegrass 20 MIRACLE % Benefits & Uses: Benefits & Uses: Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass 15

• Fast germination SOWING RATE: • High wear areas 35 - 50g/m2 • Hard wearing • Fast germination SOWING RATE: PACK SIZE: 35 - 50g/m2 Good disease resistance Good disease resistance • 10kg and 20kg • PACK SIZE: Excellent renovation mixture for General sports grounds • MOWING HEIGHT: • 10kg and 20kg football and rugby areas 20mm • Excellent renovation mixture for MOWING HEIGHT: • Racecourses and gallops football and rugby areas 20mm

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QUICKSPORT

Winter Sports and Horse Racing TETRAMAGIC Tetraploid Perennial % A winter sports mixture suitable for all Ryegrass 35 renovations of football and rugby pitches and CORAIL other high wear areas. Quicksport produces a Strong Creeping % Red Fescue 30 fine, dense and hard-wearing sward. PLATINUM % Perennial Ryegrass Benefits & Uses: 20 COLUMBINE % • Fast germination Perennial Ryegrass 15 • Hard-wearing mixture Fast recovery from damage SOWING RATE: • 35 - 50g/m2 • Excellent renovation mixture for football and rugby pitches PACK SIZE: 20kg Racecourses and gallops • MOWING HEIGHT: 20mm

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WICKET RENOVATION OUTFIELDS

Summer Sports CYRENA % Summer Sports CYRENA % Perennial Ryegrass Perennial Ryegrass This mixture contains a blend of fine-leaved, 40 A quality mixture that will produce a 30 fast to germinate, quick recovering ryegrasses MELBOURNE % fine-leaved, dense sward for use on tennis TROPHY % Perennial Ryegrass Chewings Fescue that have good wear tolerance. 30 courts and cricket outfields. 25 NAGANO % COLUMBINE % Perennial Ryegrass Perennial Ryegrass Ideal for cricket square overseeding and end of 30 Benefits & Uses: 20 the season renovation. SMIRNA Tennis courts Slender Creeping % SOWING RATE: • Red Fescue 20 Benefits & Uses: 35 - 50g/m2 Sportsfields • HIGHLAND PACK SIZE: % Overseeding Cricket outfields Browntop Bent • 10kg and 20kg • 5 Cricket square renovation • MOWING HEIGHT: 5mm SOWING RATE: • Wicket end repair 35 - 50g/m2 PACK SIZE: 10kg and 20kg MOWING HEIGHT: 13mm

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GREENS GREEN BAIZE

Golf and Bowls NIKKY % Golf and Bowls NIKKY % Chewings Fescue Chewings Fescue A high quality traditional 80:20 greens mixture 40 This mixture will establish quickly producing 55 that produces a dense, fine-leaved, attractive TROPHY % a fine, dense surface that is tolerant of close SMIRNA Chewings Fescue Slender Creeping % sward with good colour throughout the year. 40 mowing with good disease resistance. Red Fescue 25 HIGHLAND % Browntop Bent 20 ARLETTA % Benefits & Uses: Benefits & Uses: Browntop Bent 10 High disease resistance Good shoot density HIGHLAND % • SOWING RATE: • Browntop Bent 2 10 • Traditional mix 35g/m • Good disease resistance Fine, dense sward PACK SIZE: Tolerates close mowing • 10kg and 20kg • SOWING RATE: Tolerates close mowing Fine, dense sward 35g/m2 • MOWING HEIGHT: • Golf and bowling greens 5mm Golf and bowling greens PACK SIZE: • • 10kg and 20kg MOWING HEIGHT: 5mm

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ELITE GREEN FINE TEES & FAIRWAYS

Golf and Bowls SEFTON % Golf Fairways and Roughs HEIDRUN Browntop Bent Strong Creeping % An excellent, all bent grass bowling and golf 70 An excellent non-ryegrass tees and fairways Red Fescue 50 renovation mixture that produces a fine, dense, JORVIK % mixture that will produce a dense, attractive Browntop Bent 20 CALDRIS % hard-wearing surface. fine sward that emerges quickly following Chewings Fescue 25 ARLETTA % Browntop Bent divotting and recovers rapidly from damage. SMIRNA Benefits & Uses: 10 Slender Creeping % Red Fescue 25 Renovation of golf and bowling greens Benefits & Uses: • SOWING RATE: 8g/m2 Non-ryegrass, tees and fairways • Tolerant of close mowing • SOWING RATE: 2 • Produces fine, dense turf PACK SIZE: • Dense sward 30 - 50g/m 10kg and 20kg • High disease resistance • Fine appearance PACK SIZE: MOWING HEIGHT: 10kg and 20kg Excellent autumn overseeding mixture 4mm • Suitable for sustainable golf • management MOWING HEIGHT: 15mm • Excellent mix for overseeding golf fairways and roughs

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TEES

Golf CYRENA % Perennial Ryegrass Produces a fine, strong, attractive surface that 30 CORAIL recovers quickly from club head damage due Strong Creeping % to the high percentage of rhizomatous grasses Red Fescue 20 present. TROPHY % Chewings Fescue 20 Benefits & Uses: VENICE % Perennial Ryegrass Fast germination 20 • CALDRIS % • High percentage of Ryegrasses Chewings Fescue 10 • Good disease resistance Quick recovery SOWING RATE: • 35g/m2 Dense sward • PACK SIZE: 20kg MOWING HEIGHT: 15mm

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PRIZE SUBURBAN

Landscape with Ryegrass CYRENA % Landscape with Ryegrass CORAIL Perennial Ryegrass Strong Creeping % A high quality lawn and landscape mixture with 30 An excellent multipurpose lawn and landscape Red Fescue 35 ryegrass that produces a fine, dense sward with CALDRIS % mixture that establishes quickly with high wear Chewings Fescue 25 NAGANO % good colour and wear tolerance. tolerance and good appearance. Perennial Ryegrass 30 NAGANO % Perennial Ryegrass 20 PLATINUM % Benefits & Uses: Benefits & Uses: Perennial Ryegrass 25 SMIRNA % Quality lawns Slender Creeping Multipurpose use CALDRIS % • Red Fescue 20 • Chewings Fescue 10 High quality landscape areas Back lawns • HIGHLAND % • Excellent all year round appearance Browntop Bent General landscaping • 5 • SOWING RATE: 2 and colour • Housing estates 35g/m SOWING RATE: PACK SIZE: 35 - 50g/m2 10kg and 20kg PACK SIZE: MOWING HEIGHT: 10kg and 20kg 20mm MOWING HEIGHT: 13mm

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ESTATE PARKS

Landscape with Ryegrass CORAIL Landscape with Ryegrass COLUMBINE % Strong Creeping % Perennial Ryegrass An economical landscape ryegrass mixture Red Fescue 30 A mixture of amenity ryegrass, fescue and 35 that establishes quickly, giving rapid cover and smooth stalked meadow grass that together CYRENA % GLADYS % Perennial Ryegrass 30 good wear tolerance. Estate contains only true Perennial Ryegrass 20 produce a durable, dense attractive sward for HEIDRUN amenity cultivars. PLATINUM % use in lawns and landscape situations. Strong Creeping % Perennial Ryegrass 20 Red Fescue 20 Benefits & Uses: COLUMBINE % Benefits & Uses: MIRACLE Perennial Ryegrass 15 Smooth Stalked % High wear areas General landscaping Meadow Grass 15 • TETRAMAGIC • Reseeding Tetraploid Perennial % Attractive sward • Ryegrass 15 • General landscaping High wear areas SOWING RATE: • • 35 - 50g/m2 Quick establishment Parks • SOWING RATE: • PACK SIZE: 2 35g/m 10kg and 20kg PACK SIZE: MOWING HEIGHT: 2kg, 10kg and 20kg 20mm MOWING HEIGHT: 20mm

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UTILITY DOT

Landscape with Ryegrass CALDRIS % Landscape with Ryegrass CRYSTAL % Chewings Fescue Hard Fescue This popular general purpose mixture will 30 This mixture conforms to the specifications of 30 produce an attractive sward with good wear CORAIL the Department of Transport official mixture, PASSION % Strong Creeping % Perennial Ryegrass tolerance but with relatively low maintenance Red Fescue 25 for use on roadside verges, embankments and 25 CORAIL requirements. The inclusion of a low CYRENA roundabouts. Strong Creeping % % F percentage of ryegrass will provide a durable Perennial Ryegrass 20 Red escue 20 sward that will establish quickly. HEIDRUN Benefits & Uses: HIGHLAND % Strong Creeping % Browntop Bent Red Fescue 20 10 Benefits & Uses: • Roadside verges MIRACLE Smooth Stalked % HIGHLAND % Tolerates a wide range of soils • General landscaping Browntop Bent 5 • Meadow Grass 10 Meets the official specification for the Quality lawns • ALICE % • White Cover Department of Transport 5 Fine appearance SOWING RATE: • 35g/m2 PACK SIZE: SOWING RATE: 10kg and 20kg 35g/m2 MOWING HEIGHT: PACK SIZE: 20mm 20kg MOWING HEIGHT: 25mm

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EQUIPADDOCK ORIGINAL RECLAMATION

Equipaddock Original has been designed as ELRYIA Landscape with Ryegrass MASTERPIECE % a very flexible grazing and cutting ley ideal for Diploid Intermediate % Tall Fescue Perennial Ryegrass 30 A land reclamation mixture that has low 30 use by horses and ponies. CORAIL TIMING maintenance requirements, suitable for a wide Strong Creeping % Diploid Late % range of environmental conditions. Red Fescue 25 The combination of three ryegrasses; Timothy, Perennial Ryegrass 25 red fescue and smooth stalked meadow grass VENICE % CORAIL Benefits & Uses: Perennial Ryegrass help form a pasture with a dense sward that is Strong Creeping % 20 Red Fescue 17.5 very capable of producing good yields of high Low maintenance TROPHY % • Chewings Fescue BOYNE 10 quality horse hay. Diploid Intermediate % Broad range of Perennial Ryegrass • HIGHLAND % 15 Browntop Bent The ‘creeping’ natures of the fescue and • Tolerant of a wide range of soils 7 ERECTA meadow grasses ensure that this ley will ‘repair’ % Fast establishment BIRDSFOOT % Timothy 10 • TREFOIL itself where heavy treading or close grazing 5 EVORA Helps prevent soil erosion have occurred. This feature also means that Smooth Stalked % • ALICE % Meadow Grass White Clover Equipaddock Original mixture can be readily 2.5 3 used on gallop areas where hard wear and dense cover are essential. SOWING RATE: SOWING RATE: 2 13kg/acre 25g/m Equipaddock Original is very responsive to PACK SIZE: PACK SIZE: moderate use of nitrogen fertiliser that will 10kg 20kg enhance yields of forage for hay and assist MOWING HEIGHT: with recovery after cutting. 25mm

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FORMAL GREENSWARD

Landscape without Ryegrass HEIDRUN % Landscape without Ryegrass CORAIL Chewings Fescue Strong Creeping % Produces an attractive, fine, dense sward for 50 An economic non-ryegrass mixture for Red Fescue 75 use on non-ryegrass ornamental lawns and TROPHY landscape areas, including steep banks where Strong Creeping % CALDRIS % landscape areas. The inclusion of rhizomatous Red Fescue 25 the mix will help facilitate soil stabilisation. Chewings Fescue 20 grasses provides resistance and strength to SMIRNA HIGHLAND % the sward. Slender Creeping % Benefits & Uses: Browntop Bent Red Fescue 20 5 • Building surrounds, steep slopes Benefits & Uses: HIGHLAND % and banks Browntop Bent SOWING RATE: 5 2 • Quality lawns and landscape areas • Non-ryegrass landscape areas 35g/m

Fine appearance Low maintenance PACK SIZE: • SOWING RATE: • 10kg and 20kg Reduced mowing 30 - 50g/m2 Helps soil stabilisation • • MOWING HEIGHT: PACK SIZE: Fine-leaved 25mm 2kg, 10kg and 20kg • MOWING HEIGHT: 15mm

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LOW MAINTENANCE

Landscape without Ryegrass CORAIL Strong Creeping % A true low maintenance mixture that has good Red Fescue 25 shade and drought tolerance with a slow TROPHY % growth habit. Ideal to use under trees and in all Chewings Fescue 20 shady lawn and landscape situations. COCKTAIL Smooth Stalked % Meadow Grass 15 Benefits & Uses: CRYSTAL % • Shaded/dry soils Hard Fescue 15 Drought tolerant SMIRNA • Slender Creeping % • Reduced mowing Red Fescue 15 Fine appearance HIGHLAND % • Browntop Bent 5 Environmental and sustainable mix • SOUTHLANDS % Crested Dogstail 5 SOWING RATE: 25 - 35g/m2 PACK SIZE: 10kg and 20kg MOWING HEIGHT: 25mm 28 All mixtures are treated with

TURFMASTER

Turf Production HEIDRUN Strong Creeping % Turfmaster produces a fine looking sward Red Fescue 30 that establishes quickly with good disease CALDRIS % resistance and excellent colour. The high Chewings Fescue 20 proportion of rhizomatous grasses helps form CYRENA % Perennial Ryegrass a strong root structure, giving good root 15 strength when the turf is lifted. SMIRNA Slender Creeping % Red Fescue 15 Benefits & Uses: MALIBU % Turf production with ryegrass Slender Creeping • Red Fescue 10 • Quick establishment

• Fine-leaved SOWING RATE: 2 • Good year round colour 35g/m PACK SIZE: Excellent disease resistance • 20kg MOWING HEIGHT: 15mm

30 WILDFLOWER MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES

Select a weed-free site of low fertility. Fertiliser should not be used, since broad-leaved and grass weeds, together with LG Wildflowers cultivated grasses contained in standard mixtures, can be highly competitive on fertile soils. This can adversely affect All LG Wildflower mixtures contain: seed germination, establishment and subsequent growth. However, increased grass cutting can help to counteract • 80% Low Maintenance Mixture over-competitive growth. • 20% Native British Wildflowers Control weeds before sowing. Annual weeds may be hoed, buried or killed with a contact herbicide. Perennial weeds should be eradicated by a translocated glyphosate-based herbicide. Cultivate the ground to provide a fine, weed-free seed bed. Firm if necessary. Sow mixtures either from early Over the past 50 years, the number of traditional March to early May, or from early August to mid-September. wildflower meadows have sadly declined, which has This will ensure autumn establishment of most species. Take resulted in a noted decrease of British insects. care to sow evenly, at the recommended rate. Thoroughly In order for pollination to take place, we need the mixing one part seed with four parts dry sand makes for perfect flowers to attract those all-important bees, easy distribution. Rake the seed in lightly with a spring-tined so they can ensure the become fertilised and rake and firm the soil by treading or preferably, rolling. This produce seeds and fruit. Limagrain’s ten perennial ensures that the seed comes into contact with moisture in Wild Flower mixtures and the Cornfield Annual the soil. Water with a fine spray. This will avoid disturbing the Mixture all contain some of the recommended plants surface of the soil. Keep the area well-watered and free from on the Royal Horticultural Society’s list of plants. any unwanted plants. Cut the sward every six to eight weeks during the first year after sowing and remove the cuttings. You can read more about the need for bees on the This will prevent the grass from over growing the slower RHS website . www.rhs.org.uk growing wildflowers. The Bumblebee Conservation In the following years, cut in early spring, before growth starts, Trust is the only charity in the and in October, after all wildflower seeds have been shed. Business Member 2020/21 UK dedicated solely to the protection of bumblebees. Their expert conservation Remove the cuttings. team support bumblebee friendly habitats, raise WILDFOWER SOWING GUIDE awareness and gather scientific evidence about J F M A M J J A S O N D bumblebee populations, to safeguard the future of these iconic insects and vital pollinators. You can read more about their work at Sowing possible Optimum sowing window www.bumblebeeconservation.org. 33 LG 1 LG 2 WOODLAND & WETLAND & HEAVY SHADE WATER MEADOW

A suitable mixture for heavy A mixture for all damp, moist shaded areas and woodlands, and wetland soils, it is also the flower species selected are suited for banks of ponds, found naturally in these low streams and rivers. light environments. 80% Low Maintenance 80% Low Maintenance • Browntop Bent Agrostis capillarisa • Chewings Fescue rubra commutata • Browntop Bent Agrostis capillaris • Crested Dogstail Cynosurus cristatus • Chewings Fescue Festuca rubra commutata • Sheeps Fescue • Crested Dogstail Cynosurus cristatus ANNUALS MIXTURE • Slender Creeping Red Fescue Festuca rubra ACTIONCORNFIELD REPLAY • Sheeps Fescue Festuca ovina litoralis • Slender Creeping Red Fescue Festuca rubra • Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass Poa Pratensis litoralis • Strong Creeping Red Fescue Festuca rubra rubra A popular mixture bringing together all • Corn Cockle • Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass Poa Pratensis the elements needed to produce a field of Agrostemma githago • Strong Creeping Red Fescue Festuca rubra rubra 20% Native British Wildflowers • Betony Stachys officinalis traditional British native wildflowers that reflect 20% Native British Wildflowers Corn Marigold • Betony Stachys officinalis • Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil Lotus uliginosus • • Knapweed nigra how meadows would look if they were left to Chrysanthemum segetum • Bluebell Hyacinthoides non - scripta • Foxglove Digitalis purpurea • Meadow Buttercup Ranunculus acris grow wild. • Garlic Mustard Alliaria petiolata • Meadowsweet Filipendula ulmaria Cornflower • Hedge Bedstraw Galium mollugo • Oxeye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare • • Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria Centaurea Cyanus • Hedge Woundwort Stachys sylvatica 100% British native wildflowers. • Nettle Leaved BellflowerCampanula trachelium • Ragged Robin Lychnis flos-cuculi • • Red Campion Silene dioica A splash of colour in the same year, Common Poppy • Red Campion Silene dioica • • Self-heal Prunella vulgaris • Self-heal Prunella vulgaris if spring sown. Papaver Rhoeas • Wild Angelica Angelica sylvestris • Sneezewort Achillea ptarmica • Water Avens Geum rivale • Wood Aven Geum urbanum • Corn Chamomile • Wood Sage Teucrium scorodonia Anthemis Arvensis

SOWING RATE: SOWING RATE: 2 SOWING RATE: 3 - 5g/m2 3 - 5g/m 2 2g/m PACK SIZE: PACK SIZE: 1kg Business Member 2020/21 1kg Business Member 2020/21 Business Member 2020/21 PACK SIZE: 1kg

34 35 LG 3 LG 4 LG 5 LG 6 LIMESTONE CLAY & ACID SOILS GENERAL PURPOSE MIX HEAVY SOILS MIX / LOAM SOILS

This mixture has been formulated This mixture is suited for use The species selected in the An excellent general-purpose for limestone and chalkland soils on heavy / clay soil types and LG 5 mix are suited for acidic meadow mix suitable for a wide types and includes a range of environments. soils, they will produce an range of habitats and areas. species that are naturally found attractive diverse meadow 80% Low Maintenance 80% Low Maintenance in these areas. • Browntop Bent Agrostis capillaris mixture. • Browntop Bent Agrostis capillaris • Chewings Fescue Festuca rubra commutata • Chewings Fescue Festuca rubra commutata 80% Low Maintenance • Crested Dogstail Cynosurus cristatus 80% Low Maintenance • Crested Dogstail Cynosurus cristatus • Browntop Bent Agrostis capillaris • Sheeps Fescue Festuca ovina • Browntop Bent Agrostis capillaris • Sheeps Fescue Festuca ovina • Chewings Fescue Festuca rubra commutata • Slender Creeping Red Fescue Festuca rubra • Chewings Fescue Festuca rubra commutata • Slender Creeping Red Fescue Festuca rubra • Crested Dogstail Cynosurus cristatus litoralis • Crested Dogstail Cynosurus cristatus litoralis • Sheeps Fescue Festuca ovina • Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass Poa Pratensis • Sheeps Fescue Festuca ovina • Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass Poa Pratensis • Slender Creeping Red Fescue Festuca rubra • Strong Creeping Red Fescue Festuca rubra rubra • Slender Creeping Red Fescue Festuca rubra • Strong Creeping Red Fescue Festuca rubra rubra litoralis 20% Native British Wildflowers litoralis 20% Native British Wildflowers • Poa Pratensis Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass • Birdsfoot Trefoil Lotus corniculatus • Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass Poa Pratensis • Betony Stachys officinalis • Festuca rubra rubra Strong Creeping Red Fescue • Bulbous Buttercup Ranunculus bulbosus • Strong Creeping Red Fescue Festuca rubra rubra • Birdsfoot Trefoil Lotus corniculatus 20% Native British Wildflowers • Common Vetch Vicia sativa 20% Native British Wildflowers • Bulbous Buttercup Ranunculus bulbosus • Agrimony Agrimonia eupatoria • Knapweed Centaurea nigra • Common Birdsfoot Trefoil Lotus corniculatus • Rough Hawkbit • Betony Stachys offiicinalis • Lady’s Bedstraw Galium verum • Common Knapweed Centaurea nigra • Cowslip Primula veris • Black Medick Medicago lupulina • Lesser Trefoil Lotus corniculatus • Common Sorrel Rumex acetosella • Common Knapweed Centaurea nigra • Common Birdsfoot Trefoil Lotus corniculatus • Oxeye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare • Common Toadflax Linaria vulgaris • Lady’s Bedstraw Galium verum • Common Knapweed Centaurea nigra • Salad Burnet Sanguisorba minor • Common Vetch Vicia sativa • Oxeye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare • Cowslip Primula veris • Self-heal Prunella vulgaris • Dandelion Taraxacum officinale • Salad Burnet Sanguisorba minor • Dandelion Taraxacum officinale • Teasel Dipsacus fullonum • Devil’s-bit Scabious Succisa pratensis • Self-heal Prunella vulgaris • Field Scabious Knautia arvensis • Wild Carrot Daucus carota • Lady’s Bedstraw Galium verum • White Campion Silene alba • Greater Knapweed Centaurea scabiosa • Meadow Buttercup Ranunculus acris • Hoary Plantain Plantago media • Musk Mallow Malva moschata • Kidney Vetch Anthyllis vulneraria • Oxeye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare • Oxeye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare • St John’s Wort Hypericum perforatum • Salad Burnet Sanguisorba minor • Ragged Robin Lychnis flos-cuculi • Self-heal Prunella vulgaris • Self-heal Prunella vulgaris • Wild Basil Clinopodium vulgare • White Campion Silene alba • Wild Carrot Daucus carota • Wild Basil Clinopodium vulgare • Wild Mignonette Reseda lutea • Yellow Rattle Rhinanthus minor • Yarrow Achillea millefolium • Yellow Rattle Rhinanthus minor SOWING RATE: SOWING RATE: SOWING RATE: SOWING RATE: 3 - 5g/m2 3 - 5g/m2 3 - 5g/m2 3 - 5g/m2 PACK SIZE: PACK SIZE: PACK SIZE: PACK SIZE:

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36 37 LG 7 LG 8 LG 9 LG 10 HEDGEROWS & SANDY / DRY FLOWERING POLLINATORS SEMI SHADE SOILS MIX LAWN MIX

A suitable mix for hedgerows A diverse mixture that includes The LG Flowering lawn mix The Pollinators mix contains and semi shade. a wide range of flower types combines slow growing grasses wildflowers and grasses suitable for sandy and dry soils. and low growing wildflowers that help create the perfect 80% Low Maintenance that create an attractive wildflower meadow and • Browntop Bent Agrostis capillaris 80% Low Maintenance • Chewings Fescue Festuca rubra commutata • Browntop Bent Agrostis capillaris flowering lawn or grassland habitat that will attract bees, • Crested Dogstail Cynosurus cristatus • Chewings Fescue Festuca rubra commutata • Sheeps Fescue Festuca ovina area. butterflies and pollinators. This • Crested Dogstail Cynosurus cristatus • Slender Creeping Red Fescue Festuca rubra • Sheeps Fescue Festuca ovina mixture is suitable for a wide litoralis 80% Low Maintenance • Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass Poa Pratensis • Slender Creeping Red Fescue Festuca rubra litoralis • Browntop Bent Agrostis capillaris range of soils. • Strong Creeping Red Fescue Festuca rubra rubra • Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass Poa Pratensis • Chewings Fescue Festuca rubra commutata 20% Native British Wildflowers • Strong Creeping Red Fescue Festuca rubra rubra • Crested Dogstail Cynosurus cristatus 80% Low Maintenance • Betony Stachys officinalis • Sheeps Fescue Festuca ovina • Browntop Bent Agrostis capillaris

• Common Knapweed Centaurea nigra 20% Native British Wildflowers • Slender Creeping Red Fescue Festuca rubra • Chewings Fescue Festuca rubra commutata • Black Medick Medicago lupulina • Garlic Mustard Alliaria petiolata litoralis • Crested Dogstail Cynosurus cristatus • Birdsfoot Trefoil Lotus corniculatus • Hairy St John’s Wort Hypericum hirsutum • Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass Poa Pratensis • Sheeps Fescue Festuca ovina • Knapweed Centaurea nigra • Hedge Bedstraw Galium mollugo • Strong Creeping Red Fescue Festuca rubra rubra • Slender Creeping Red Fescue Festuca rubra • Dandelion Taraxacum officinale • Hedge Woundwort Stachys sylvatica litoralis • Field Forget-me-not Myosotis arvensis 20% Native British Wildflowers • Red Campion Silene dioica • Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass Poa Pratensis • Hoary Plantain Plantago media • Buttercup Ranunculus acris • Self-heal Prunella vulgaris • Strong Creeping Red Fescue Festuca rubra rubra • Kidney Vetch Anthyllis vulneraria • Self Heal Prunella vulgaris • Teasel Dipsacus fullonum • Lady’s Bedstraw Galium verum • Yarrow Achillea millefolium 20% Native British Wildflowers • Wood Avens Geum urbanum • Musk Mallow Malva moschata • Ladys Bedstraw Galium verum • Birdsfoot Lotus corniculatus • Yarrow Achillea millefolium • Oxeye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare • Red Clover Trifolium pratense • Field Scabious Knautia arvensis • Perforate St John’s Wort Hypericum perforatum • Cowslip Primula veris • Knapweed Centaurea nigra • Ribwort Plantain Plantago lanceolata • Birdsfoot Trefoil Lotus corniculatus • Greater Knapweed Centaurea scabiosa • Self-heal Prunella vulgaris • Black Medick Medicago lupulina • Sainfoin Onobrychis vicifiolia • Viper’s Bugloss Echium vulgare • Wild Carrot Daucus carota • Red Clover Trifolium pratense • Wild Mignonette Reseda luteola • Wild Basil Clinopodium vulgare • White Clover Trofolium repens • White Campion Silene alba • Wild Marjoram Origanum vulgare • Wild Marjoram Origanum vulgare • Wild Carrot Daucus carota • Purple Loostrife Lythrum salicaria • Yarrow Achillea millefolium • Buttercup Ranunculus acris • Yellow Rattle Rhinanthus minor • Kidney Vetch Anthyllis vulneraria • Borage Borago officinalis • Wild Clary Salvia verbenaca • Hedge Bedstraw Galium mollugo

SOWING RATE: SOWING RATE: SOWING RATE: SOWING RATE: 3 - 5g/m2 3 - 5g/m2 3 - 5g/m2 3 - 5g/m2 PACK SIZE: PACK SIZE: PACK SIZE: PACK SIZE: Business Member 2020/21 Business Member 2020/21 1kg 1kg 1kg 1kg Business Member 2020/21 Business Member 2020/21

38 39 AMENITY FLOWER MIXTURES

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This rich mixture contains Aurora is the general all varieties such as the Sunbow purpose mixture for all soil Zinnia, which provides several types. waves of flowers. Sunbow Zinnia and Trianon Cosmos Festival offers good cover and a provide more effective and source of insects and wildlife. It is long-lasting flowering. an appropriate mixture for dry land, This is a medium height mixture, since a lack of water will only tend around half a metre tall. to limit growth height.

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41 CS 5 CS 6 CELEBRATION BIODIVERSITY

Celebration consists of flowers This mid-height, strikingly rich such as Cornflower and Poppy, mixture was designed to CS 3 CS 4 which were once found in attract butterflies, pollinating NEW WAVE HONEY BEE abundance in traditional insects and in general, small cornfields in the days before invertebrate or vertebrate the widespread use of fauna. New Wave provides good Honey Bee mixture is herbicides became cover for fauna and a good composed of flowering plants Predatory insects will find food and commonplace. source of nectar for insects. for landscaping, which will water and it will provide food for It is a rich mixture which is mid The mixture features yellow tones attract insects, bees and other many vertebrates. The inclusion height, perfect for creating a and withstands heat and drought pollinators. of lupins in the mixture will enrich pastoral environment. very well. It is the perfect mixture for attracting soil fertility because they have the pollinating insects whilst beautifying ability to ‘fix’ nitrogen from the SOWING RATE: atmosphere. SOWING RATE: the countryside. 2g/m2 2g/m2 SOWING DATE: SOWING DATE: SOWING RATE: SOWING RATE: April - June 2 April - June 2g/m2 2g/m PACK SIZE: SOWING DATE: PACK SIZE: SOWING DATE: 1kg or 4kg bag 4kg bag and / or 400g metal April - June April - June & Sept - Oct HEIGHT: can / bag PACK SIZE: PACK SIZE: 0.8 - 1m 1 or 4kg HEIGHT: 4kg bag and / or 400g metal 1 - 1.5m can / bag HEIGHT: HEIGHT: 0.5 - 0.8m 1 - 1.5m

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42 43 CS 7 CS 8 FLORAL CANVAS POPPY MIX

Short mixture exclusively Poppy Mixture is an excellent composed of annuals: choice for those wanting to Cornflower, Poppy and create a vivid red show of Red Flax. colour. Flowers around 50 days after It is a popular choice for those CS 9 germination then continuously until wanting to create Armistice displays BUTTERFLY MIX the first frost. as the poppies create a poignant reminder of those who lost their A mid to tall mixture designed SOWING RATE: lives in battle. to attract butterflies and other 2g/m2 pollinators, the mixture will SOWING DATE: SOWING RATE: produce a vast array of flowers April - June 2g/m2 in the first year, followed by PACK SIZE: SOWING DATE: further flowering in the 500g packs April - May second year. HEIGHT: PACK SIZE: 0.4 - 0.5m 500g packs SOWING RATE: 2g/m2 SOWING DATE: April - June PACK SIZE: Business Member 2020/21 Business Member 2020/21 Business Member 2020/21 1kg bag

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• Direct telephone line to our Customer Service Desk - Dial 01472 370197 for a quick response to all your seed enquiries. Limagrain Head Office at SOWING RATES • Careful monitoring of all orders and deliveries. Rothwell in Lincolnshire • First class delivery service with next-day For the latest news on our Sowing rate conversion chart delivery option. mixtures and varieties All sowing rates in this booklet are expressed in grams per square metre. The please visit our website following table can be used to convert these rates into units suited to larger areas. SALES TEAM 2020 www.lgseeds.co.uk/designer Grams/Square Metres 8 1.5 25 35 50 Kilograms/100 Square 0.8 1.5 2.5 3.5 5 Metres Matt Gresty Sam Horner Kilograms/Hectare 80 150 250 350 500 AMENITY PRODUCT MANAGER AMENITY SEED SPECIALIST Kilograms/Acre 30 60 100 140 200 & SEED SPECIALIST North West England, Midlands, Channel Islands, Southern England Ireland and Wales Mobile: 07769 740314 DIMENSIONS AREA 20kg BAG REQUIREMENTS SOWN AT PITCH SIZES (m) (m2) 20g/m2 25g/m2 35g/m2 Mobile: 07767 278335 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Football 100 x 64 6,400 7 8 12 Rugby 100 x 69 6,900 7 7 13 91.4 x 55 5,027 6 7 9 Hockey John Heaphy Richard Camplin Cricket Square 30 x 30 900 1 1.25 1.75 AMENITY SEED SPECIALIST AMENITY PRODUCT Lawn Tennis 23.8 x 11 262 0.25 0.5 0.5 DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Bowls 40 x 40 1,600 1.75 2 3 Croquet 32 x 25.5 81 1 1.25 1.5 Scotland & North East England Mobile: 07789 507567 Golf Green Average 500 0.5 0.75 1 Mobile: 07774 929742 Tel: 01472 370219 Email: [email protected] Golf Tee Average 350 0.5 0.5 0.75 Email: [email protected] One Hectare – 10,000 10 12.5 17.5 TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE: All mixtures/individual varieties in this catalogue are offered strictly subject to safe harvest, final certification and remaining unsold One Acre – 4,047 4.25 5.25 7.25 on receipt of orders. All other Terms and Conditions of sale will be advised by your Designer distributor.

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