Meadowmat Cottage Garden

Meadowmat Cottage Garden Do you enjoy seeing nodding flower heads, buzzing bees and vibrant colours combined with swaying grasses? Then you’ll love Meadowmat Cottage Garden! Cottage Garden is a beautiful combination of native wildflowers and grasses which can create a vibrant and bee-friendly cottage garden. A handy garden design tip is to lay the Cottage Garden on top of Spring and Summer flowering bulbs for an even longer flowering period. This ensures stunning turf for a dazzling looking garden in time for summer! What’s Included Cottage Garden is mainly created using perennial plant species. So these plants will grow back year after year, as long as they enjoy the conditions in your garden. Not only that but this mix also includes some annual and bi-annual flowering species. Some to give a pop of colour while the perennials are blooming and some just because of their sheer beauty. However, not all of the flowers will appear every year but when they do, you’ll realise why Cottage Garden is so worthwhile. Flowering The flowering time for Cottage Garden is late Spring until early Autumn, so it’s perfect for when you want to show your garden in its best light throughout Spring, Summer and even during the colder months! We would never want your Cottage Garden to be damaged in transit so the plants are mowed before harvest and despatch. So your product is unlikely to be in flower when it is delivered to you. Installation But you can install Cottage Garden all year round. For a burst of colour in time for Summer, try laying Meadowmat® before the end of March to allow plants to establish. It takes two slabs of Cottage Garden Meadowmat® wildflower turf to cover 1 square metre of prepared soil. It can be heavy – especially when it’s wet, so it’s a good idea to get some help when manoeuvring and laying it! The images shown are just to give you an idea of how Cottage Garden looks when in bloom, but it can be presented differently depending on the look of your garden and your level of maintenance. Therefore, the balance of plant species and the flowering time will be different in every single garden giving you endless possibilities! However, it can also depend on soil type, weather conditions, pollinator populations and management style. Then, simply place each piece of Meadowmat® onto prepared soil, ensuring the roots have contact with the ground, water it and keep the soil moist until the plants are well established! How to lay Meadowmat wildflower turf Derby College Case Study  Maintenance Maintaining Cottage Garden is easy and rewarding. Unlike many herbaceous flower borders, Cottage Garden doesn’t want to be fed, mulched, staked or sprayed. Simply leave it to grow unchecked between March and September. You may like to extend the flowering season by deadheading the plants, but this is not essential. At the end of summer, when all the flowers have faded, you can be ruthless and deadhead as much as you need. Cut your Cottage Garden back to a height of 10 – 15 cm and put all of that unwanted vegetation on to the compost heap. If your garden soil is quite fertile, you may need to trim it a couple of times during the autumn and winter, just to keep it neat. Cottage Garden is fairly easy-going provided it has plenty of sunshine and a moist, but whilst ensuring well-drained soil. It’s great in deep planters, raised beds, flower borders or as an alternative to your original lawn! The plants in this Meadowmat® like a fairly neutral pH but can adapt to anything but the most acidic or alkaline soils. Our Cottage Garden Meadowmat wildflower turf To maintain the balance of grasses to flowering plants, we highly recommend installing Cottage Garden onto our Low Fertility Soil which you can buy here. Richer soils tend to encourage lots of grasses and over time these can crowd out the flowering plants in Meadowmat®, leaving you with a less colourful display. Can I grow wildflowers on a slope? Coverage Each slab of Cottage Garden wildflower turf measures 500mm (19.6″) wide by 1000mm (39.2″) long so two slabs will cover 1m². Please note this product is sold per square metre. Check out these blogs in Help & Advice: The language of wildflowers How to prepare soil for a wildflower area Want to grow your own from seed? The mix of wildflowers found in Cottage Garden Meadowmat Wildflower Turf is also available as a seed mix – if you would like to grow your own from scratch or you just want to add some extra colour.   What’s In Meadowmat Cottage Garden? Please note, percentages refer to the weight of the seed in the growing mix and do not necessarily reflect the proportions of mature plants. Native grasses Grasses fill in any gaps between plants and provide activity outside of the flowering season. They also reduce moisture from the soil, so you’ll also be helping wildlife out with a place to stay in the colder months! The 2 native grasses in Cottage Garden Wildflower Turf are Tufted hair grass and Brown top bent grass. Flowering Plants Cottage Garden Mix features 30 flowering plants, providing a joyous display of summer colour! These wildflowers are: For more information about each flower, or to purchase more of the individual species, click on the links below: Achillea Millefolium Read More Buy More Birdsfoot Trefoil Read More Buy More Bladder Campion Read More Buy More Columbine Read More Buy More Common Knapweed Read More Buy More Common Mallow Read More Buy More Corn Chamomile Read More Buy More Cornflower Read More Buy More Cosmos Albatross Read More   Cosmos Gloria Read More Erigeron ‘Profusion’ Read More Field Scabious Read More Buy More Linaria Northern Lights Read More Meadow Saxifrage Read More Buy More Melton Pastels Read More Nettle Leaved Bellflower Read More Buy More Ragged Robin Read More Buy More Red Campion Read More Buy More Ribwort Plantain Read More Buy More Rose Campion Read More Buy More Sweet Violet Read More Thrift Read More Buy More Tufted Vetch Read More Buy More Viper’s Bugloss Read More Buy More White Breeze Read More Buy More White Campion Read More Buy More Wild Thyme Read More Buy More Vervain Read More Yarrow Read More Buy More Yellow Horned Poppy Read More See our Product downloads or visit our Help Centre for more detailed information on installing and maintaining Cottage Garden! Perishable living products should be installed on the day of delivery. In the unlikely event that your product does not arrive in good condition please get in touch immediately with photos showing the issue. The actual percentage of each species contained may vary due to environmental factors. Turfonline makes every effort to ensure wildflower products are free from weeds and pests, however due to the natural way in which these products are grown we cannot guarantee they are 100% pest  free on delivery. It is unlikely that you will see every species that is listed. The variation of species present has been developed to suit a wide variety of soils and environmental conditions. This will result in a product that will adapt to individual settings which may mean some species are more successful than others. Contains annual and perennial species.  If installed after March many species may not flower during the first year.