acidic soils

Cambrian uplands meadow in Montgomeryshire with a dry stone wall and wildflowers

Wildflower Seeds for Montgomeryshire: Native Mixes for the Cambrian Uplands and Severn Valley

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

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Charnwood Forest rocky outcrop meadow in Leicestershire with wildflowers

Wildflower Seeds for Leicestershire: Native Mixes for Charnwood Forest and the Clay Vales

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

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Acid grassland wildflowers including tormentil and heath bedstraw at the edge of a Greater Manchester mossland

Wildflower Seeds for Greater Manchester: Native Mixes for Mosslands, Pennine Fringe and Urban Green Space

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,

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South Downs inland chalk grassland meadow in West Sussex with wild orchids

Wildflower Seeds for West Sussex: Native Mixes for the South Downs, Weald and Coastal Plain

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

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Heathland with flowering heather and gorse near Sutton Park in the West Midlands

Wildflower Seeds for the West Midlands: Native Mixes for Heathland, Black Country Brownfield and Urban Parks

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

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North Downs chalk grassland meadow in Surrey with wildflowers

Wildflower Seeds for Surrey: Native Mixes for Chalk Downs, Greensand and Heathland

Wildflower Seeds for Surrey: Native Mixes for Chalk Downs, Greensand and Heathland Surrey packs an unusual amount of geological variety into a small, heavily wooded county. The North Downs run chalk from Farnham through Guildford, Dorking and Box Hill towards the Kent border. South of that ridge sits the Greensand, its sandy hills rising around

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Limestone coastal grassland wildflowers including cowslip and bird's-foot trefoil on the Glamorgan Heritage Coast, Wales

Wildflower Seeds for Glamorgan: Native Mixes for the Heritage Coast, Gower and the Valleys

Wildflower Seeds for Glamorgan: Native Mixes for the Heritage Coast, Gower and the Valleys Glamorgan is Wales’s most botanically varied historic county, and it shows in the ground itself. The Heritage Coast running from Penarth to Ogmore is built on Liassic limestone and shale, giving calcareous grassland found nowhere else in South Wales at this

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