Wildflower meadow mats

A mixture of wildflowers, herbs and flowering perennials, specifically designed for green roofs and sustainably grown in the UK.

Working closely with the University of Sheffield’s Professor Nigel Dunnett and the Green Roof Centre, Lindum has developed the Wildflower Mat. Attractive to pollinators, it provides a biodiverse and colourful range of wildflowers, herbs and flowering perennials that will flourish in the conditions created on many types of green roofs.

Features & benefits

  • Attractive mixture of wildflowers, herbs and flowering perennials

  • Prolonged flowering period, from April - early winter

  • Flowering height 30-80cm

  • Combines drought tolerant aspects with colour and ecological benefits of wildflowers and other species

  • Grown into 100% plastic free recycled biodegradable mat

 

Specification Guidance Notes

Sown Mixtures
Achullea Millefolium - Yarrow, Centaurea Scabiosa- Greater Knapweed, Daucus Carota - Wild Carrot, Filipendula ulmaria - Meadowsweet, Galium album - (Galium Mollugo) - Hedge Bedstraw, Galium Verum - Lady's Bedstraw, Knautia arvensis - Field Scabious, Leontodon hispidus - Rough Hawkbit, Leucanthemum Vulgare - Oxeye Daisy, Lotus Corniculatus - Birdsfoot Trefoil, Origanum Vulgare - Wild Marjoram, Plantago Lanceolata - Ribwort Plantain, Plantago Media - Hoary Plantain, Poterium Sanguisorba - (Sanguisorba Minor) - Salad Burnet, Primula Veris - Cowslip, Prunella Vulgaris - Selfheal, Rhinanthus Minor - Yellow Rattle, Silene Dioica - Red Campion, Silene Flos-cuculi - (Lychnis flos-cuculi) - Pink Ragged Robin, Silene Vulgaris - Bladder Campion, Echium Vulgare - Viper's Bugloss, Allium Schoenoprasum - Chives, Veronica Spicata - Spiked Speedwell, Linaria Vulgaris - Toadflax, Thymus Vulgare - Common Thyme, Dianthus Carthusianorum - Carthusian Pink, Lychnis Flos Cuculi - White Ragged Robin.

Size & weight
0.8 x 1m. 550g/m2 material 25mm Thickness. Saturated Weight 25kg per square metre.

Maintenance
1-2 cuts per year at the end of the flowering period and an optional cut in spring. Removing all cuttings from the roof. Weed when necessary. Through dry/warm periods, water manually or by a watering system.