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News Release from: Wildflower Turf | Subject: CT Flora Wildflower Turf
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 January 2008
Wildflower Turf selected for biodiverse
scheme
CT Flora Wildflower Turf has been designed to give a bio-diverse wildflower turf suitable for all types of landscaping projects.
Coronet Turf has developed a new product to add to their soil-less turf range The turf has already been used successfully on domestic and commercial sites, as well as civil engineering schemes and green roofs
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 23 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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James Hewetson-Brown, Coronet Turf's Managing Director claims to have found a way of creating a wildflower meadow of any size without the risk and potential disappointment of seeding.
"So many customers come to me needing a solution when seeding has failed and I am pleased to be able to offer a guaranteed way of establishing a wildflower meadow".
"The turf is suitable for a wide range of uses and examples include gardens, orchards and a municipal park as well as river diversion schemes, in fact anywhere that biodiversity, low maintenance and a natural environment is needed".
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Coronet's turf uses a seed mix of 50% wildflower seed and 50% grass seed in its soil-less system.
This high wildflower content prevents the grasses from dominating the sward.
The formation of a dense sward of mature wildflowers and grasses allows the wildflower turf to act as a weed blanket suppressing the establishment of weeds from the prepared soil.
The roll sizes range from 1.25m to 40m adding to the weed suppressing effect, with the advantage of quick and easy laying times.
The production process does not require the turf to be cut from the soil at lifting, resulting in an undamaged root structure.
This gives a speedy establishment and soil stabilization as well as a good display of perennial plants in the first growing season.
The wildflowers and grasses give colour and diversity during the spring and summer and when they seed, provide a food source for birds and a favourable habitat for butterflies and other insects.
The nature of the meadow requires very little maintenance; an autumn cut is all that is needed.
After a large seeding project failed for house builders, Wilson Homes, Coronet's Wildflower Turf was called upon at a sensitive ecological site where the habitat of Greater Crested Newts had to be attended to, in order to meet the Environment Agency's exacting requirements.
Tom Hickman, Director of Hickman Bros Landscapes , was delighted with the turf.
"It was quick and easy to lay and in my opinion a great way of establishing a wildflower meadow".
"It was remarkable how soon a variety of species were flowering in the early summer, eight weeks after we laid the turf".
In addition to conventional landscape projects, the wildflower turf is being used for Green Roof projects.
It is an interesting and bio-diverse alternative to sedum matting and a number of techniques can be used to ensure a long-lasting and environmentally friendly green roof".
"Ultimately, CT Flora wildflower turf offers gardeners and landscapers a simple way to establish a bio-diverse, interesting and attractive environment" says Mr Hewetson-Brown.
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