GENERAL Mulligan Seeds are hand collected from wild stands of native and naturalized
wildflowers in the Eastern Ontario area. This ensures that resulting
plants will be vigorous under Canadian weather conditions and will perpetuate
long term, when grown in a field setting.
SEED LIST Browse the Price List for the price, colour, bloom period
and height for each wildflower species.
ORDER FORM Print out the Order Form and send to the
Mulligan Seeds address below. Note, these wildflower seeds can only be shipped to
a Canadian address.
PROPAGATION For the best results, we highly recommend the establishment of stands by
using plugs, seedlings or transplants. Seeds are planted in plug
trays or as row crop for germination and growth to a seedling stage.
The plugs or seedlings are then planted out in the location and configuration
desired. Plugs or seedlings can be planted in a flower bed or into
an established grass or meadow area. We suggest cutting a grassy
area, especially a tall meadow, just prior to planting to allow the seedlings
time to compete successfully with existing plant species.
The only seeds available from Mulligan Seeds that have been successfully
grown by a broadcast method are Lupine seeds.
STORAGE Once cleaned, Mulligan Seeds are stored in a cool dry location. Purchased
seeds should be subjected to several weeks of cold treatment, around 0
degree C., to ensure that their natural dormancy is broken.
DESIGN The plug method permits not only best survival, but also good control over
the density and mix of species. However, since all of the species
available from Mulligan Seeds are strongly perennial and some of them spread
vegetatively, we recommend the establishment of pure stands. When
two perennial species are planted together, one of them soon dominates,
crowding out the other. Design can be produced using various combinations
of pure, but small stands, of the various species.
MAINTENANCE The maintenance recommended is the cutting of the wildflower area once
per year, in late fall. This cutting is to prevent woody shrubs and
tree seedlings from becoming established in a grass area, thus preventing
natural succession into a shrub - wood state.
Fertilizing a wildflower area is usually detrimental. Our wildflowers
can compete best with other plants in soils that have less than optimum
conditions for most plant growth.