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HabitatAid
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We supply native trees, plants, seeds and heritage fruit trees which we offer through our community of small specialist UK nurseries and growers. We've donated over £100k to UK conservation charities, with whom we work to develop and distribute fund-raising products. We also supply corporate clients and landscape and ecology professionals.
Our Pond Plants: a quick explainer talking about our plants. What they are and where they're from.
We only sell native UK pond plants, and nothing punchy like Bulrush. They're grown outside by our growers in Norfolk, so fully hardy. We offer them as good size 110cc plugs, common in the landscaping industry, which we think give you good value for money: britishpondplants.co.uk/collections/british-pond-plants
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All about our pond plants: jumbo plugs, native species, grown in the UK from UK origin seed.
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We only sell pond plants native to the UK, grown here from UK origin seed. They're fully hardy and carefully selected to be appropriate for every planting scheme. And great for wildlife, of course: www.habitataid.co.uk/collections/pond-river-plants
British Pond Plants' coir mats and plug plants. Great product, as featured in Gardeners' World.
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Planting marginals into coir mats is a fab way of establishing plants on butyl liners. We offer unplanted mats and plug plants, which we deliver across the UK: britishpondplants.co.uk/products/coir-mats-ponds
Our unplanted coir mats and plug plants introduced. A great way to plant ponds with plastic liners.
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A quick explainer from a celebrity chef (in the rain!) to show you our coir mats and plants for ponds: www.habitataid.co.uk/products/preplanted-coir-mats-for-ponds
When your pond plants arrive - what to expect and what to do when your pond plants arrive.
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Thanks for buying your pond plants from us. We think they're great for wildlife and great value. Oh - they'll look good too. For more, look at our website: britishpondplants.co.uk/
How to start a wildflower patch
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An easy to follow guide to sowing a wildflower patch - it's simpler than you think, so long as you do the prep! A lovely addition to anyone's garden. We sell larger quantities of seed through our main website, and smaller packets at: britishwildflowermeadowseeds.co.uk/
How to plant a native hedge
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A short how to guide to planting a native hedge. It's not so tricky, even for non-gardeners. If you need plants and guards etc you know where to find them!
Sowing wildflowers: an easy to follow how to guide to sowing a small wildflower patch.
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It's easier than you think to establish a wildflower or wildflower meadow area in your garden from seed. This simple guide shoes you how to start. Really for gardeners in the UK.
Planting a bare root tree
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How to plant a small bare root tree. Trees for sale: www.habitataid.co.uk/collections/trees-hedges
We love traditional fruit trees! A brief introduction as to why, and the trees we sell.
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We love traditional fruit trees! A brief introduction as to why, and the trees we sell.
Why you should plant a native hedge. They're easy to establish, and bring so many benefits....
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Why you should plant a native hedge. They're easy to establish, and bring so many benefits....
All about Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus minor) and how to establish it.
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All about Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus minor) and how to establish it.
Preplanted Coir Mats & Rolls For Ponds
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Preplanted Coir Mats & Rolls For Ponds
Starting a Wildflower Meadow (Updated)
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Starting a Wildflower Meadow (Updated)
So glad you mentioned seasons as well as months for those of us in the Southern hemisphere.
Really disappointing not to see how this turned out later in the year which is what I want to see before purchasing a large(ish) quantity.
Hi Adrian - you can see images of how it looks once established on the website: www.habitataid.co.uk/products/preplanted-coir-mats-for-ponds
Not covering at all after sowing, do you not experience birds gorging themselves on your seed?
Generally no - not unless you have a flock of pigeons!
I think I would be wary of using play sand.We bought some from Argos a few years ago and I found that where our grandchildren spilt it on the lawn while playing with their sand table, the grass actually died back temporarily. Surely they wouldn't be allowed to add a herbicide to it would they?
I wouldn't have thought so, particularly as the children might swallow it!
That was really helpful and well explained. Thank you!
Our pleasure!
I enjoyed watching the video of starting the wildflower patch. Healthy plants grow well in good soil. I enjoyed watching the video.
Thanks for the informative video. We'll done and good luck with your program
How to protect from pigeons
Unless you're visited by a hungry flock of biblical proportions they shouldn't be a problem.
Thats a nice jacket. What brand is it?
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This looks very interesting
I love wild flower patches . I showed my seeds last week they are growing already . Thanks for the video
I'm in San Diego, CA USA. I bought a large, $50-60 bag of native wildflowers seeds and hand sewed them on the first 1/3 of the hill that makes up about 1/2 of our backyard- a largely unsueable and difficult to landscape space. I literally just tossed them about and scraped with a rake in late fall, just before our seasonal rains. By March, it was covered in green shoots- mostly of Elegant Clarkia- and it blooms from late March to late June. The next year the second third of the hill was covered in wildflowers and now this, the third season, the entire hill is literally nothing but wildflowers of pinks and yellows and purples and blues and oranges thanks partly to my weed whacking and ensuring futher seed spread. The neighborhors know to watch for it now. Besides weeding, no amendments or watering is needed.
sow not sew
Absolutely banging! Love it. Great channel btw. Loved your video on Yellow Rattle. 👍
Thanks!
I'm a very novice gardener and I've just built two raised beds in my "yarden". I intend to plant wildflowers there this year to keep the costs down after forking out on lots of compost, the raised beds themselves, and decorative gravel around them. I assume I won't have a problem (or hopefully not!) with competing grasses, so I'll just pop the seeds on top of the compost for now and see what happens!
It might be worth buying some sand - something coarse - to mix with that compost!
@@NickMannHAL I actually have some old paving sand from when we lifted up some of the old paving slabs, but its been very mixed as to what I can see online about whether its suitable for gardening. May have to buy some of the proper stuff!
Wild flowers don't like compost.
Good thorough instructions and a great video
I have a patch at the rear of my garden approx 4m2 but in partial shade. Do you recommend any wildflower seeds?
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Really useful snd comprehensive video. Thank you for helping my effort.
Thanks - that's good to hear, Good luck with it!
I like it I'll give it a go and have a look at your website.👍🏽
Good luck!
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Great video and most helpful.
This video has really helped me thank you, I’ve saved you to my biodiversity playlist and subscribed. Many thanks
Thanks!
Great stuff and love the idea of getting farmers harvesting off meadows. And also drawing focus to other suppliers. Got a few videos going forward over the summer which might be of interest.
Thanks Dusty. We're big fans of your social media feeds.
Thank you so much! I'm getting ready to plant a meadow on the side and back of my house for my chickens. You answered all of my specific questions about seeds and soil (even though we're on opposite sides of the pond). I just have to learn to convert grams to ounces lol. I'd like to use natives so I've further research to do for american seed mixes
Thanks for the message. You'll find it tough to get much going when there are chickens around though! They're super destructive...
@@HabitatAid Oh yes I know! I'll put a temporary fence around the new plantings for at least 6 months if not a year. I typically have 9 hens on 1/2 acre food forest to free range so I'm adding this plot to increase the volume of really nutritious greens and seeds :)
I need something for regulating creeping buttercup.
Hi Pat - tricky! I'm afraid if you heavy and relatively fertile soil it's going to like you. Manual removal is the best option.
Great video! Even better dog!
Thanks - got to love a Sealyham!
Just ordered 5 bare root to plant. Hopefully will provide forage for the next 60-80 yrs
The way the jet engine kicked in at the end 🚀
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Remidies cheppando please
What, no pictures?! 😪
Thank you. We have a Council Allotment tenancy where fruit tree heights were meant to be no taller than 2.8m. Perhaps you might advise Councils, not to be quite so mean, with their tree height rules. An apple picker can reach 3.5m from ground, quite easily, so can a long handled tree pruner.
How annoying! That makes no sense; trees on a more dwarfing rootstock are going to be more susceptible to damage etc.
Would you send seed to Missouri in USA?
Is there a similar supplier in USA? One you would recommend?
Hi - I don't know, I'm afraid. I'm sorry not to be more helpful.
My pomagrante tree leaves 😁 they come everyday😁😘😘 i let them take and go
Interesting 🌿🐞💐🦋💞
My golden celebration has always been the favorite of this leaf cutter 🐝 😂
They so freaking cute!
very nice video I'm new friend here
Is a no mow option any use ? Then over time removing squares of turf to sew the Wildflowers . Good information in this video . Long grass at this time of year is quite stunning but it would be more so with a Wildflower mix .
I'm not sure what you had in mind? No mow isn't an option, I'm afraid - you need to take a hay cut in late summer and keep cut or grazed over the winter. Yes, you can certainly add a wildflower only mix to squares as you describe.
@@NickMannHAL Brilliant & Thankyou for your suggestion . As I research more about the re-wild idea the more I like it . Certainly from what I gather is it's essential to cut & remove in late September to early October then as you correctly say keep trimmed through the Winter Months . Work in Progress . Peace .
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gower dont seemm to sell these any more, where can I get them and the coir logs?
We can supply both the preplanted rolls and mats, but in larger volumes only. We do also sell unplanted mats with plants though, which you can plant in the coir yourself: www.habitataid.co.uk/products/preplanted-coir-mats-for-ponds
How to control them
Why would you want to?
My 90% of rose plant leAves are damaged.. but i dont want to kill or harm them… just want to avoid..
@@ponmalarramesh5451 Wow! Are you in the UK? Doesn't sound like leafcutter bees...
No… from India
Same problem
So you should remove winter cuttings to reduce soil fertility? Why is it necessary to reduce it?
Grasses and plants like dock and nettle respond to higher fertility levels and outcompete wildflowers as a consequence, so you're always trying to reduce them. This is particularly true now, as nitrification is a growing problem for wildflower meadows.
@@NickMannHAL It would not be easier to build a mote around your entire garden. In Virginia USA a physical barrier reduces weed spread from a lot to almost nothing!!!
This video no longer works?
Seems ok I think?
Best video I have found on this. Thanks
What a lovely voice you have ,and very informative thank you.
I’m making my whole yard a wild something. Don’t know what I’m doing But will keep on
Perennial and butterfly gardening is a life long experiment. I wouldn't worry about it. Just get some Bee Balms and some Salvias and your on your way.
Please mind your back, pulling up those perennial "weeds". Back straight, bend at knees was advice for someone else. Some native thistles were so very successful with windblown seed for miles, one might consider, not letting them flower, but keep in leaf for the Painted Lady Butterfly larva. Try nettles grown in a nitrogen rich (well rotted manure, raised bed to keep nettles contained) to discover where Peacock and Small Tortoiseshell butterflies prefer to lay their eggs.
i would like to turn a field near where i live into more of a flowery meadow than the area of rough tussocky grass it currently is....dense tussocky grass that smothers everything and prevents anything else from moving in and getting started. i havent the time to do any guerilla gardening involving any digging so i was wondering if you had any suggestion of what i could try? i know that yellow rattle is supposed to be useful, but how easy would it be for their seeds to get through the almost inpenetrable sward and down to the soil? how easy would it be for yellow rattle to colonize such an area? is there any other plant seed that would be guaranteed to break the stranglehold this tussocky grass has got? might another way simply be to dump a lot of tree leaves and or other organic twigs stems etc from the garden in piles on top of the tussocks to 'smother the smotherer'! and provide some kind of access point for incoming airborn seeds to get a toehold?
Hi Dan - I'm afraid no - Rhinanthus won't most likely work in this situation and nor will much else. I'm afraid you'll have to invest some time to prep the area before seeding it.
Where's the after video, or pictures of it flowering? I need to see lol 👍
I was hoping the video would actually show how to lay the coir mats
Just plonk them down!
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