Instant Meadows for Olympic and Jubilee Year 2012

• These meadow selections are the same as those chosen for planting in public spaces for this most important year. They represent the very epitome of the natural meadows of the English countryside.
• Grow your own long-flowering annual flower-meadow display and have your own beautiful summer meadow in a part of your garden with this wonderful selection of seeds. These Annual meadows produce superb colour displays within 8 weeks or so of sowing.
• These delicious meadows are so versatile that they can be laid on the terrace as well as anywhere in a garden or allotment plot. Place a row of these delightful beds round the border of the garden to give no maintenance colour all summer..

Pastel Mix:
A beautiful ‘strawberries & cream’ mix of white and pink with a scattering of clear blue. Gently blending elements such as Bishops Flower, Cosmos and Shirley Poppy.    

Marmalade Mix:
A wonderful mix of rich tones of yellow, orange and reds. Made from a tasty recipe including Red Flax, Painted Daisy, Black-eyed Susan, Californian Poppy.

Short Mix:
A mix suited especially to more restricted or compact situations, but having the same long-flowering characteristics of the standard mixture. Components include Fairy Toadflax, Red Flax, Californian Poppy, Convolvulus minor, Love-in-a-mist, Candytuft, Larkspur, Dwarf Cornflower. General Height: 30-40 cm.

These Pictorial Meadow mixtures are a carefully blended seed mixtures of native and non native hardy annuals designed to provide high quality and cost effective flowering displays.
They have been developed following several years of intensive trials.
Unlike other mixes that are available, Pictorial Meadows will flower and provide visual interest over an extremely long period of time from Summer through late Autumn.
They overcome some of the problems that are often associated with creating meadows from seed, such as unreliable germination, short flowering season, untidy appearance and the need to sow on low fertility soils
Pictorial Meadows create sumptuous visual effects; they are formulated primarily for their harmonious and impressionistic colour associations rather than attempting to copy the species compositions of meadows that might be found in the wild.
They inject drama into large scale commercial landscapes and create sparkling, complex and intricate pictures at the very smallest of scales.
Providing a colourful, wildlife friendly replacement for mown  grass, or more formally in planting beds, or to provide colour  between planted shrubs, trees and perennials.

Make your choice, using the options below.

How to Sow Your Instant Meadow.

• 1 Packet will cover 2-3m²
• Clear the area of weeds ensuring the cleanest bed possible.
• A fertile soil will ensure good displays
• Dig or rake the soil until it has a fine surface for sowing
• Mix the seeds with sand to help disperse the seeds evenly
• Scatter the seeds over the area.
• Carefully rake in the seeds, and if possible, roll then water.