Flowering meadowmix Tubingen - ?g. Blanda fron

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Here's what Blanda frön says about the product: (May 9, 2024)

Flower Meadow Tübingen: "'Tübingen' is the perfect flower mix to attract bees and butterflies. It is very suitable for gardens as it will provide your garden with lots of color. The mix contains, among other things, phacelia, marigold, cornflower, and many more."

Comment:

I opened my bag purchased in early May 2024. It contains 4 cornflower seeds ("kornblomma" in their description — an old Swedish synonym and the Danish name for the flower), 1 borage seed, and a few more dill, buckwheat, marigold, coriander, cosmos, and phacelia (honeywort) seeds. The bag also has a few medium-sized beige seeds, which I believe are red clover, and a few other seeds I don't recognize.

It's great that the seeds are organic! Kudos for that. And yes, it can become a beautifully flowering bed that attracts various insects. However, this has nothing to do with a meadow, as a meadow consists of wild Swedish plants that can withstand annual mowing year after year. None of the seeds mentioned in the description (or found in the bag) are anything but annual, non-Swedish flowers (except for cornflower, which is a 1-2 year blooming weed, and red clover, if that's what it is. Clover can actually withstand mowing for a few years).

A meadow with wild Swedish plants always attracts a much larger variety of more specialized insect species than a flower bed!