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Based in Sheffield, UK, Pictorial Meadows brings togetherhorticulturalists, designers, ecologists, landscapers and of course ourhard working Dispatch Team.
The Company was originally founded by Dr Nigel Dunnett and is partowned by the University of Sheffield and the environmental socialenterprise Green Estate. Benefiting from the ongoing research fromthe University and the pioneering application work of Green Estate,products and knowledge are continually evolving. Pictorial Meadowsis the Sheffield School in practice.
As a team we are passionate about the subject and are continuallyworking on improved solutions. Our unique strength comes from ourdual role in the landscape industry. We are landscape practitionersourselves at the forefront of development tonew landscape solutions especially in
increasingly challenging economic times.
As a major user of our own products we have considerable vested interest in impactquality and reliability. This has driven our establishment of the seed company wherewe can control all element of bespoke design, cost and supply.
When our mixes reach you, you will know that they are a product of years ofresearch backed by leading horticulturalists. You will know that the seed is of goodquality and that the advice we give is the product of years of observations and trials.
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Pictorial Meadows through it’s parent company, Green Estate Ltd, offers a complete service for successfulmeadows. Offering help with any element from site analysis, design, implementation and longer termmanagement on any scale or site across the UK, our expert Meadow Team are here to help. SatisfiedCustomers include Local Authorities, Private Landowners, Housing Associations, Schools, Friends of Parks Groups,and Visitor Attractions. For further details of these services email [email protected]
Meadow Advisory, Establishment and Management Services4
About Our Meadow Mixes
Pictorial Meadows offers a fresh approach to meadows that has combined ecology, design and a rigorousapproach to quality. Offered as either annual or perennial meadows, our mixes contain carefully blendedseed from native and non-native species.
Annual Pictorial Meadow Mixes provide the easiest, most colourful and reliable of displays. They offer the realwow factor and are suitable to use in all areas from planters and small front gardens to parks and field scalelandscapes.
Perennial Pictorial Meadow Mixes provide an idealised impressionistic meadow . Theyare very suitable as atransition between more formal plantings and a purely natural or naturalised scheme. They are more sustainablethan annuals in the long term and offer exciting new design possibilities. They do however require much morecareful preparation and attention through to the end of their first year. After that management and maintenanceis relatively simple but well timed operations will always be critical.
Bespoke Meadow Mixes. Work on new meadows is evolving all the time. For contract customers we offer one offand bespoke designs. You can phone for details or book on one of our summer seminars to see what's comingnext.
Whether you own a window box or a large garden, manage a Stately Home or a Housing Estate, Pictorial Meadows will bring aromantic and enchanted countryside right to your doorstep. Designed to combine sumptuous colour and long flowering interestyour garden will also become a real haven for wildlife
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Photos sent in by Pictorial Meadows Customers to show the versatility of use.
About our Best Selling Annual Mixes
Designed to give you all the beauty of atraditional cornfield but with a much wider rangeof species providing colour from late spring intomid-Autumn
Pictorial Meadows Annual Mixes overcome manyof the problems associated with traditionalwildflower meadows such as unreliablegermination, short flowering season, loss of colourafter mid-summer and the need to sow on lowfertile soils.
Sow Pictorial Meadows Annual seed mixes in thespring – March, April, May - and they will start toproduce superb colour displays within 8 weeks orso of sowing.
Unlike other annual meadow mixtures, PictorialMeadows mixtures are formulated so that asone species in the mix starts to die back it isreplaced by another to give continuous everchanging displays.
You don’t need to worry about your soilconditions - just pick the colour mix you prefer- they work in all types of soil.
The sowing rate is 2.5 - 3 grams per square metre.
Photos above taken at the Olympic Park courtesy of Laura Cryer
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It's wasn’t just Team GB that werea success in the summer of 2012.Visitors to the Olympic Park werewowed by wonderful flowermeadow displays.
As a Sheffield based company weare proud to introduce the PictorialMeadows "Golden Girl" AnnualMix in honour of a certain localathlete.
Capture the memories of the eventand the look of the Olympic Parkyourself with this celebratory mix.
Featuring various species of :Californian Poppy Eschscholzia CaliforniaAfrican Daisy Dimorphotheca SinuataGolden tickseed Coreopsis TinctorialCorn Marigold Chrysanthemum SegetumBlue Cornflower Centaurea Cyanus
NEW - Pictorial Meadows“Golden Girl” Annual Mix
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NEW – Pictorial Meadows “Grandstand”Annual MixDesigned with stunning and vibrant coloursinterspersed with dramatic tall varieties this mixwowed visitors to the Olympic Park and was featurednext to what was claimed to be the world’s largestburger restaurant.
Included in the mix are :Bishops Flower Ammi MajusLarkspur Delphinium AjacisRed Orache Atriplex Hortensisand Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia Hirta
NEW – Pictorial Meadows “Blue Wave”Annual MixThe Blue Wave mix is designed to reflect theshimmering waters of the aqua centre. It combinesdifferent shades of blue species that flower atdifferent times during the season to create a continuinglong flowering display;
Main Species include:Cornflower Centaurea CyanusBlue Salvia Salvia Horminium BlueLarkspur Delphinium AjacisViper’s Bugloss Echium Vulgare
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Pictorial Meadows“Standard/Classic”Annual Mix
The original PictorialMeadows mix, shown here inthe main picture at The EdenProject, produces stunningdisplays through until lateOctober / November,starting out with white, blues,pinks and reds, turning toreds, orange and yellow inthe autumn.
The mix has been carefullybalanced for colour andsuccession of display.
Components include:Shirley Poppy, Pavader RhoeasCalifornian Poppy,Eschscholzia CalifornicaCornflower, Centaurea CyanusFairy Toadflax, Linaria MaroccanaTickseed Coreopsis TinctorialRed Orache Atriplex Hortensisand Larkspur. Delphinium Ajacis
General Height: 60cm. Late season flowering
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Pictorial Meadows“Short” Annual Mix
A mix suited especially to more
restricted or compact situations, but
having the same long-flowering
characteristics of the standard
mixture.
Components include :
Fairy Toadflax Linaria MaroccanaRed Flax Linum Grandiflorum RubrumShirley Poppy Papaver RhoeasLove-in-a-mist Nigella DamascenaCandytuft Iberis UnbellataBlue Flax Linum Usitatissimum
General Height: 30-40 cm.
Late seasonflowering
An exciting
alternative to
bedding plants
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Pictorial Meadows “Marmalade”Annual MixA wonderful mix of rich tones of yellow,orange and reds. Made from a tasty recipeincluding :Corn Marigold Chrysanthemum SegetumRed Flax Linum Grandiflorum RubrumPainted Daisy, Chrysanthemum CarinatumBlack-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia HirtaCalifornian Poppy Eschscholzia Californica
Pictorial Meadows “Candy’ Annual MixA vibrant collection of bright sparkling coloursincluding sweet purples, playful yellows, radiantreds with a splash of wispy-whites and baby-bluesproducing stunning eye-candy effects.Main components:Tickseed Coreopsis TinctoriaFairy Toadflax Linaria MaroccanaField Poppy Papaver RhoeasCornflower Centaurea CyanusCalifornian Poppy Eschscholzia CalifornicaCorn Marigold Chrysanthemum Segetum
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Pictorial Meadows “Pastel” Annual Mix
A beautiful ‘strawberries & cream’ mix of white andpink with a scattering of clear blue. Particularlyimpressive towards the end of the flowering periodwhen pink takes over from blue as the dominantcolour theme.Gently blending elements such as :
Bishops Flower Ammi MajusCosmos Cosmos BipinnatusCornflower Centaurea Cyanusand Shirley Poppy Papaver Rhoeas
Pictorial Meadows “Contrasting” Annual Mix
A vibrant mix with a combination of orange and yellow withcontrasting blue components and smattering of reds. Photocourtesy of Telford & Wrekin Council on one of the manytraffic islands the council sow Pictorial Meadows displays eachyear.Throwing together species likeCornflower Centaurea CyanusRed Flax Linum Grandiflorum "Rubrum"Baby Blue Eyes Nemophila Insigniaand Larkspur. Delphinium Ajacis
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Pictorial Meadows “Cornfield” Annual MixA carefully selected mix of pretty cornfield annuals that willflower mainly in July and August. Inc :
Field Poppy Papaver RhoeasCornflower Centaurea CyanusScentless Mayweed Matricaria Inodoraand Corncockle Agrostemma Githago
Pictorial Meadows “Volcanic”Annual Mix
A fiery mix of reds with some purple anda splash of gold, giving an eruption offlowers including :
Red Clover, Trifolium IncarnatumRed Flax Linum Grandiflorum RubrumPurple Cornflower Centaurea Cyanusand Red Orache Atriplex Hortensis
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About our Pictorial Meadows Perennial MixesPictorial Meadows Perennial Mixes are robust and reliable mixes dominated by Northern and CentralEuropean native meadow plants with a sprinkling of other more exotic species to extend the flowering periodand add drama. While lacking the overwhelming flower-power of the annual meadows, our perennialmeadows share the same characteristics of very long seasons of flowering and harmonious colour displays.
Recently reformulated, they provide exciting forms of planting which are also highly attractive to wildlife.Like all Pictorial Meadow Mixes the carefully designed recipes produce long-lasting colour from spring to lateautumn and once established can be simply managed through an annual meadow cut in late February.
Full establishment and management instructions will be provided or you can read them on our website.Suggested average sowing rate is around 2g per sq m. Sowing can take place from early Autumn through tolate spring with October/November being the best.
Over time your meadow will create its own changing patterns. Species composition will change dynamically inresponse to the weather and other external factors.
Bespoke Mixes can be produced for larger projects - call us to discuss
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Pictorial Meadows “Golden Summer”Perennial Mix
A Colour-themed mixture for normal fertility soils .Generally yellows and golds with hints of orangeand purple. Our most popular perennial mix.The mix contains 18 different species including :Garden Yarrow Achillea MillefoliumPerennial Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia Fulgida DeamiiLance-leaf Coreopsis Coroepsis LanceolataLady’s Bedstraw Galium VerumMeadow Buttercup Ranunculus Acris
Pictorial Meadows “Woodland Edge”Perennial Mix
Ideal for shady areas. Free flowering mixture to sowin semi-shaded situations or to use to provide shorterterm colour and interest around new tree and shrubplantings. The mix contains 17 different speciesIncluding :Red Campion Silene DioicaOxe-eye Daisy Leucanthemum VulgareAmerican Wood Aster Aster DivicariusWood Avens Geum UrbanumFoxglove Digitalis Purpurea
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Pictorial Meadows “Purple Haze”Perennial Mix
A Colour themed mixture for normal fertility soils.Predominantly mauve and blue with billows of white andflashes of red for contrast. 22 species including:Field Scabious Knautia arvensisMichaelmas Daisy Aster AmelusHedge Bedstraw Galium MollugoPerennial Flax Linum PerenneOxe-eye Daisy, Leucanthemum VulgarePurple Coneflower Echinacea purpurea
Pictorial Meadows “Native Meadow”Perennial Mix
A more traditional and subdued meadow. Suitable forconservation sites . A selection of very dependablenative species without grass that will succeed in a widerange of soils and conditions. Flowering predominantlyin June, July and August. 19 species including :Oxe-eye Daisy Leucanthemum VulgareLady’s Bedstraw Galium VerumGreater Knapweed Centaurea ScabiosaBlack Knapweed Centaurea NigraSt John’s Wort Hypericum Perforatum
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New – Pictorial Meadows“Roadside Picnic”Perennial Mix.
A dramatic and colourful long seasonmeadow mix designed for the mostinfertile and free draining of sites.Suitable for use on pure brick rubbleand demolition sites.
Mix feaures 21 species including :Perennial Flax Linum PerreneHollyhocks Alcea Ficifolia HybridsChives Allium SchoenoprasumRed Valerian Centranthus RubraEvening Primrose Oernothera OdorataCarthusian Pink Dianthus Carthusianorum
New – Pictorial Meadows“Treasure Chest”Perennial Mix
A robust leafy and very richly-colouredmeadow designed for normal fertilitysoils
21 species including :Devil's Bit Scabious Succisa pratensisWood Betony Betonica officinalisGreat Burnet Sanguisorba OfficinalisMeadow Cranesbill Geranium PratenseHollyhock Mallow Malva AlceaWoodland Sage Salvia Nemerosa
New – Pictorial Meadows“Patchwork Quilt”Perennial Mix
An open lower canopy meadowdesigned for less fertile soils butproviding a riot of colour and shapefrom spring to late autumn.
21 species including :Musk Mallow Malva MoschataGreater Knapweed Centaurea ScabiosaVipers Bugloss Echium VulgareField Scabious Knautia ArvensisOriental Poppy Papaver OrientalisHard Fescue Fastuca LongifoliaWild Marjoram Origanum Vulgare
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Green Roofs are vegetated layers that sit ontop of the conventional roof surfaces of abuilding. They are composed of lightweightlayers of free-draining material that supportlow-growing tough drought-resistantvegetation.
Because of their very wide range ofenvironmental and economic benefits , greenroofs have become important elements ofsustainable and green construction in manycounties.
Establishing a Green Roof from seed is asimple and cost effective solution compared tothe use of sedum mats or plug plants PictorialMeadows offer a range of seed mixesdesigned to withstand the rigours of a rooftop environment whilst provide a rich bio-diverse ecosystem and a colourful floraldisplay.
We offer 3 main green roof mixes with andwithout grass and can custom design largerorders to location and budget
Pictorial Meadows Green RoofPerennial Seed Mixes
Green Roof Installation and Maintenance.Green Estate Ltd, Pictorial Meadows parentcompany, offer a nationwide service forsupply and maintenance of green roofs.Offering bespoke horticultural solutions tomeet the specific needs of the customerwhether it be an urban high rise, domesticretrofit or a Visitor Centre in a NationalPark. For further information [email protected] or visit our websitewww.greenestate.org.uk
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Pictorial Meadows LtdManor Oaks Farmhouse
389 Manor LaneSheffield S2 1UL
Tel 0114 267 7635Fax 0114 267 7636Email: [email protected]
Pictorial Meadowsis a Registered Trade Mark of Pictorial Meadows Ltd
We reserve the right to alter thecomposition of our mixes without
notice.
