You should look at a native seed mix for next year instead of this invasive plants
100% do this OP, and the best part aside from protecting native ecology is the native plants are built to handle your exact climate so they are much more likely to self propagate.
Our yard is half full of Blue Bells.
Very nice.
Thats absolutely beautiful! The folks at [email protected] might enjoy this :) (and probably lots of other comms too)
Especially us over at [email protected] 🌻
I tried that very same mix and it never took. Just tried a small area. Winter sowed. I got like three daisys.
beautiful but how are the bees?? id be scared to step out there without an epi
I like the look, but at $600 per 25lb bag (enough for 1/3 acre) I’ll have to look at other options. I know my local feed and seed sells clover, which is part of the fleur mix, and it wouldn’t be that expensive. My yard really could use another seeding of white clover, which was the only one that did well with our clay soil.
Okay now you have me hitting my wholesale accounts to price out their components. These are wholsale prices.
Perennial ryegrass $1.25/lb Hard Fescue $1.30/lb Quattro Sheep Fescue $1.60/lb English daisy $180/lb White Yarrow Est $150/lb(short supply this year so I get the “call for quote” aka we are screwing you over. White Clover $2.45/lb Sweet allysum $59/lb Baby Blue Eyes $33/lb Strawberry clover (out of stock usually around $5/lb).
Now if you ditched the grasses and just bought the flowers you would need around 1.5lbs for 1/3 of an acre. Pricing it out would depend upon the blend percentages but would guess it to be somewhere around $100/lb so $150 for 1.5lbs. Plus blending cost of around $80 (time + equipment). The total COGs would be around $230.
The total blend original blend would be around $300. They are pulling around a 50% margin on that blend.
I really need to increase my margins. I just sold 20lbs of a pollinator blend to an orchard at only a 20% margin. Sigh…
Wow … I’d love to be able to grow something like this but I’m up in northern Ontario. I think our growing area is a two or less.
What part of the country or region is this? So that we can know if we can do this or not.
It looks fantastic, good for you!
I have used Flawn which is based in Minnesota so a little further north. This shows the zones that the cover. I think they go down to 3.
Also Prairie Moon Nursery has sorting by zone which aren’t specially for lawns but ship bare root plants. They have good filters by zones and locations.
I found the website: https://ptlawnseed.com/products/fleur-de-lawn?variant=141703872
It looks like it’s made in Oregon and inspired by the flowers of New England. That would probably mean most suitable for zones 5-8 or so.
Here is a Canadian mix that says it’s suitable down to zone 3: https://ohcanadaseeds.ca/products/canadian-wildflower-seed-mix-19-annual-perennial-varieties-for-planting-in-canada
Same for this one: https://www.westcoastseeds.com/products/alternative-lawn-wildflower-mix
Zone 2 might be trickier to find.
Thanks for the info … it’s not easy in my area because I constantly search for plants that can tolerate cold. And even when I do find seeds that can, I have to plan and do work for a year, two years or three years ahead.
For anyone else reading this here is where I get my seeds for northern Ontario wildflowers
https://northernwildflowers.ca/collections/shop-seeds
I’ve only been trying for the past year or two and only meekly and I haven’t achieved any dramatic results yet. One thing I have done is to replace my dandelion infested grass lawn with white clover. The first planting was last summer and it turned out good but I am excited to see what will happen this year.
