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NataliePortland @lemmy.ca

3d ago

Our flower lawn looks so good this year! "Fleur de Lawn" seed mix

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I tried that very same mix and it never took. Just tried a small area. Winter sowed. I got like three daisys.

Thats absolutely beautiful! The folks at !aesthetic@slrpnk.net might enjoy this :) (and probably lots of other comms too)
- Especially us over at !nolawns@slrpnk.net 🌻

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

No Lawns, No Masters
Great job diversifying the plant life around you :), it looks beautiful

Ooooo. That's fun.
Got any pictures of the wintertime? Curious what it looks like then.
- No pics but it’s 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.

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.
- I think it’s cute 🤷‍♀️
  
  Yeah I assumed you had a different opinion in the store, either way happy for you and slightly jealous of your nice garden!
- 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.
- 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.

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