Thats absolutely beautiful! The folks at [email protected] might enjoy this :) (and probably lots of other comms too)
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Very nice! We're probably a month behind you. First we'll have the dandelion wave, then we'll have a nearly month long clover wave.
I like the look, but at $600 per 25lb bag (enough for 1/3 acre) I'll have to look at other options. I know my local feed and seed sells clover, which is part of the fleur mix, and it wouldn't be that expensive. My yard really could use another seeding of white clover, which was the only one that did well with our clay soil.
Okay now you have me hitting my wholesale accounts to price out their components. These are wholsale prices.
Perennial ryegrass $1.25/lb Hard Fescue $1.30/lb Quattro Sheep Fescue $1.60/lb English daisy $180/lb White Yarrow Est $150/lb(short supply this year so I get the "call for quote" aka we are screwing you over. White Clover $2.45/lb Sweet allysum $59/lb Baby Blue Eyes $33/lb Strawberry clover (out of stock usually around $5/lb).
Now if you ditched the grasses and just bought the flowers you would need around 1.5lbs for 1/3 of an acre. Pricing it out would depend upon the blend percentages but would guess it to be somewhere around $100/lb so $150 for 1.5lbs. Plus blending cost of around $80 (time + equipment). The total COGs would be around $230.
The total blend original blend would be around $300. They are pulling around a 50% margin on that blend.
I really need to increase my margins. I just sold 20lbs of a pollinator blend to an orchard at only a 20% margin. Sigh...
You should look at a native seed mix for next year instead of this invasive plants
100% do this OP, and the best part aside from protecting native ecology is the native plants are built to handle your exact climate so they are much more likely to self propagate.
Our yard is half full of Blue Bells.
Very nice.
Wow .... I'd love to be able to grow something like this but I'm up in northern Ontario. I think our growing area is a two or less.
What part of the country or region is this? So that we can know if we can do this or not.
It looks fantastic, good for you!
I have used Flawn which is based in Minnesota so a little further north. This shows the zones that the cover. I think they go down to 3.
Also Prairie Moon Nursery has sorting by zone which aren't specially for lawns but ship bare root plants. They have good filters by zones and locations.
I found the website: https://ptlawnseed.com/products/fleur-de-lawn?variant=141703872
It looks like it's made in Oregon and inspired by the flowers of New England. That would probably mean most suitable for zones 5-8 or so.
Here is a Canadian mix that says it's suitable down to zone 3: https://ohcanadaseeds.ca/products/canadian-wildflower-seed-mix-19-annual-perennial-varieties-for-planting-in-canada
Same for this one: https://www.westcoastseeds.com/products/alternative-lawn-wildflower-mix
Zone 2 might be trickier to find.
Thanks for the info .... it's not easy in my area because I constantly search for plants that can tolerate cold. And even when I do find seeds that can, I have to plan and do work for a year, two years or three years ahead.
For anyone else reading this here is where I get my seeds for northern Ontario wildflowers
https://northernwildflowers.ca/collections/shop-seeds
I've only been trying for the past year or two and only meekly and I haven't achieved any dramatic results yet. One thing I have done is to replace my dandelion infested grass lawn with white clover. The first planting was last summer and it turned out good but I am excited to see what will happen this year.
saving this so I can buy that mix when I move, or a native flower equivalent
edit: might buy from here https://www.westernnativeseed.com/mixesintro.html
I tried that very same mix and it never took. Just tried a small area. Winter sowed. I got like three daisys.
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Great job diversifying the plant life around you :), it looks beautiful
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Ooooo. That's fun.
Got any pictures of the wintertime? Curious what it looks like then.
No pics but itβs just looks like boring lawn
Where are you located? How harsh of winters do you get? How wet is your spring?
I've always been interested in doing this. Winters are fairly mild here in my part of the PNW, but have doubts that I wouldn't just have a mud pit in the fall/spring.
beautiful but how are the bees?? id be scared to step out there without an epi
I have a few decades of experience of walking (often barefoot) onto flowering lawns/meadows and I've never been stung by a bee. Unless you disturb their nest, which won't be in the lawn, bees will do their best to avoid you. Well, European honey bees are harmless at least. Bumblebees are harmless as well. I have been stung a few times by wasps, but those incidents were not lawn related in any way.
If the lawn is more grown out and I've walked through it, then I always worry about ticks and I check my legs afterwards, because of Lyme disease.
No offense but Fleur de lawn is a really lame name for seeds. The result looks good, really, but if I'd see Fleurs de lawn seeds in the store i would not even consider buying it. Yes i am just a random hater.
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Yeah I assumed you had a different opinion in the store, either way happy for you and slightly jealous of your nice garden!
I don't mind the name, but it seems awful expensive.
I mean in theory it ends up a yearly thing if they get pollinated. So could be worth.
Flower lawn is a lame name?
It be less turned of by that. Same for flowery lawn, lawn flowers and a lawn full of flowers. But the mixed languages in this case sound very obnoxious to me. To be fair, if it was called fleurs de pelouse or fleurs d'herbe (which Google translate thinks is proper french) i would ask the people working there what kind of flowers they were, so i guess it is kind of original. Still don't like it, but I don't care if anyone else likes it. Everyone is free to their opinion, just wanted to express my negative opinion for no meaningful reason.
Fair, I think more companies need to be witty myself.
Only so many bland boxes and descriptors you can stare at before they all look the same.
Mind you, people love stuff like this as well, so yeah I get it as well.
In Canada everything has French on the package, so I wouldnβt even think twice about the mixed languages myself.
Here in Sweden you have loads of languages on packages, but the only time you mix languages mid sentence is when you're trying to save space in the instructions/information label. You'll often see Norwegian, Danish, and sometimes Swedish mashed together because we share a lot of words.
So you'll see like
Ingredienser
Vatten/vann, socker/sokker, kakao, smΓΆr/smΓΈr
What you generally don't see is product names that are a mashup of two languages. You do sometimes, and generally my knee-jerk reaction is also that it's a bit obnoxious.
I think that really only applies when they hamfistedly mash Swedish and English together. Worst I've ever seen was "pullad pork." It's like they attempted to make "pulled" sound Swedish, but somehow forgot that "pullad" already is a word. Thus making it sound like someone has sexually assaulted a pig.
Eugh.
I think here the bar is maybe higher for witty names. I can imagine if youre used to two languages it could be a good thing they mix them up.