Wildflower Pollinator Blend

A selected blend of flowering plants high in nectar and pollen for bees and beneficial insects/predator insects. Easy access gives them a healthy supplement to their diet and a place to call home. Perfect for organic gardeners, orchardists and others looking to have a lighter touch in addressing pests and enhancing pollination of crops.

This blend was created with advice from the late Professor Steve Wratten, founder of the Biological Husbandry Unit at Lincoln University, and New Zealand’s self professed “Bug Man”, Ruud Kleinpaste. 

This blend includes around twenty varieties of flowers and herbs including buckwheat, coriander, echium, cornflower, phacelia, red clover, fennel, dill, mignonette, wallflower, rudbeckia, ammi, salvia, echinacea, gilia, alyssum, thyme and poppy and many others.

A blend of annuals and perennials. The annuals should self-seed, although it can often help to over-sow the second year to establish the flowers as the dominant species over unwanted weeds. 

Sow 3-5g per 10 square metres.

Wildflower Sowing Instructions

1. For best results sow in weed free soil
2. Prepare the soil to a fine consistency
3. For ease of sowing, mix the seed with seed raising mix; 1g seed to 100g of mix
4. Broadcast half the mix East-West, and half North-South for even spread
5. Lightly rake the soil to cover the seed
6. Water the whole area well with a fine spray
7. Keep soil moist during germination and establishment

PLEASE NOTE: It is our intention to supply a consistent selection of varieties for our blends. However, we reserve the right to adjust the recipe for these blends when it becomes necessary, due to availability, to do so.