WE PRODUCE THREE SEED MIXES:

POLSKA ŁĄKA KWIETNA

Hay Meadow. This mix is used to start meadows on a vast range of average soils, possibly not too dry. This meadow should be cut once or twice a year (June-July or June-July and then August-October). It is composed of over a dozen colourful meadow species, mostly perennial (eg ox-eye daisy, meadow buttercup and ragged robin). It is an easily managed alternative to a lawn. It is our most often ordered seed mix. more info here

Standard sowing rate 1.5 g / sq.m
Price in Poland: 50 g - 49 zł, 200 g - 130 zł, 500 g - 280 zł, 1 kg - 480 zł. One zł = ca. 4 euros. We can arrange a dispatch abroad as well.

KWIETNA MURAWA

Dry Grassland. This mix is suitable for any well-drained soil but grows best in soils rich in calcium (chalk, dry clay, richer sands). Poor acid soils can be simply enriched by several bags of garden chalk. It consists of over 20 colourful flower species typical of dry hills e.g. field scabious, dark mullein, whorled sage, St John's wort or knapweed. It does not require mowing except for the first year. more info here

Standard sowing rate 1.5 g / sq.m
Price in Poland: 50 g - 49 zł, 200 g - 130 zł, 500 g - 280 zł, 1 kg - 480 zł. One zł = ca. 4 euros. We can arrange a dispatch abroad as well.

KWIATY POLNE

Colourful annuals. This seed mix consists of a few annual flower species typical of corn fields (field poppy, two species of mayweed, cornflower, corn marigold, corncockle and large-flowered vetch). Extremely colourful and easily grown. It quickly gives the full effect (a few months after sowing) but requires ploughing or clearing the ground every year. more info here

Standard sowing rate 2 g / sq.m
Price in Poland: 50 g - 49 zł, 200 g - 130 zł, 500 g - 280 zł, 1 kg - 500 zł. One zł = ca. 4 euros. We can arrange a dispatch abroad as well.


WHY MEADOW?

Nowadays most people live in urban area and have little contact with nature. Modern gardens are often filled with exotic plants and lawns are treated with chemicals to get rid of weeds such as moss or dandelions (or even daisies).

Can our garden look different? YES. Our garden can be full of easily grown colourful native plants. The native species are adjusted to the local climate and they are good habitat for fauna including butterflies and beetles. In such a garden a greater part of the lawn can be replaced by a wildflower meadows.

There is another reason why we should set up wildflower meadow in our garden. The area of species-rich meadows is shrinking in most countries, inlcuding Poland, due to cessation of mowing, excess fertilisation, drainage or urban sprawl. In areas rich in well-preserved meadows new meadow can sometimes be created just by starting to mow an empty field but in most cases we need to supply the right seeds of typical meadow species as the wild specimens may grow miles away, too far for their seeds to reach the meadow.

The seeds can be ordered by phone, e-mail or letter. We normally send seeds only within the area of Poland but we can send seeds abroad on special request after arranging a form of payment.

Łukasz Łuczaj, Pietrusza Wola 86., tel. +48 602497483

Most of the seeds were hand collected from seminatural meadows and traditionally managed fields in the Carpathians (SE Poland). I do not collect seeds of protected species or particularly rare species. I grow more and more species in my own land.


Last update 22.11.2007