Wildflower Seeds for Berkshire: Native Mixes for Chalk Downland, Clay and the Thames Valley Berkshire is a county of surprising contrasts once you look past the M4 corridor. In the west, the chalk of the North Wessex Downs rises toward Walbury Hill, the highest chalk hill in southern England. Around Reading and Wokingham, London Clay
Wildflower Seeds for Buckinghamshire: Native Mixes for Chiltern Chalk and the Vale of Aylesbury Buckinghamshire runs from high chalk in the southeast down to heavy clay in the north, and the two halves of the county could hardly ask for more different wildflower seed. The Chiltern escarpment through High Wycombe, Amersham and Wendover sits on
Wildflower Seeds for Merseyside: Native Mixes for Sand Dunes, the Mersey Fringe and Urban Liverpool Merseyside’s defining habitat sits along its coast rather than inland. The Sefton coast, running roughly twenty kilometres between Liverpool and Southport, holds the largest sand dune system in England — a genuinely internationally important landscape. Inland, the county is largely
Wildflower Seeds for Rutland: Native Mixes for England’s Smallest County Rutland packs two genuinely different soil stories into just 382 square kilometres. Free-draining Jurassic limestone dominates the east of the county, around Ketton, Clipsham, Pickworth and Greetham, historically quarried for building stone and now expressed as some of the East Midlands’ best surviving calcareous grassland.
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Wildflower Seeds for Montgomeryshire: Native Mixes for the Cambrian Uplands and Severn Valley Montgomeryshire runs from the acid, peaty Cambrian uplands in the west — the source of the Severn, Wye and Rheidol — down through the broad Severn Valley around Welshpool and Newtown, with occasional pockets of base-rich ground on the Long Mountain and
Wildflower Seeds for Northamptonshire: Native Mixes for Ironstone, Limestone and Clay Vale Northamptonshire sits on Jurassic bedrock that gives the county three genuinely different growing grounds. Ironstone uplands run through the northwest around Daventry and Kettering’s fringes, giving local buildings their distinctive orange-brown colour. Limestone dominates the Rockingham Forest country in the northeast, between the
Wildflower Seeds for Leicestershire: Native Mixes for Charnwood Forest and the Clay Vales Leicestershire’s geology divides sharply between the ancient volcanic rock of Charnwood Forest, in the county’s centre, and the heavy glacial clay vales that surround it. Charnwood — around Loughborough, Coalville, Shepshed and Markfield — sits on some of the oldest rock in
Wildflower Seeds for Greater Manchester: Native Mixes for Mosslands, Pennine Fringe and Urban Green Space Greater Manchester’s landscape is shaped by two very different stories. To the west and south-west, the county sits on what was once one of the largest expanses of lowland raised peat bog in England — the mosslands around Chat Moss,
Wildflower Seeds for West Sussex: Native Mixes for the South Downs, Weald and Coastal Plain West Sussex runs from chalk in the south to heavy clay in the north, with a lighter coastal plain and greensand band in between. The South Downs cross the county from Brighton’s edge westward to Chichester, thin and free-draining. North
Wildflower Seeds for the West Midlands: Native Mixes for Heathland, Black Country Brownfield and Urban Parks The West Midlands metropolitan county — Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and the Black Country boroughs of Sandwell, Dudley, Walsall, plus Solihull and Coventry — is one of England’s most heavily built-up areas, but it holds more genuine wildflower potential than its
Wildflower Seeds for East Sussex: Native Mixes for the South Downs, High Weald and the Levels East Sussex divides into four genuinely different landscapes. The South Downs run chalk along the county’s southern edge, from Lewes through Seaford towards Eastbourne. North of that, the High Weald’s sandstone ridges and clay valleys cover most of the
Wildflower Seeds for Monmouthshire: Native Mixes for the Wye Valley, Vale of Usk and Gwent Levels Monmouthshire packs an unusual amount of geological variety into a relatively small county. Old Red Sandstone dominates the Black Mountains fringe and the Vale of Usk, giving free-draining, slightly acid-to-neutral ground. The Wye Valley’s limestone slopes around Chepstow and
