Description

Red Clover Trifolium pratense

• Taller-growing with larger leaves and red/pink flowers.
• Great for meadows and pollinator areas.
• Deep roots help improve soil structure.
• Better suited to wild patches, not mowing areas.

A resilient perennial wildflower Clover variety with pinkish red rounded flower heads and attractive trifoliate leaves. This red clover variety has been bred as drought-resistant. It can be added to your existing lawn to create an attractive bee-friendly clover lawn. Due to clover's nitrogen-fixing qualities, it will actually fertilise the existing sward and improve the soil condition. It is very effective when used as a green manure to improve soil fertility and structure.

Red clover is low maintenance and can be mowed very infrequently letting the plants flower to benefit wildlife.  Red clover is particularly nectar-rich and a favourite food source of many species of bees including honeybees and red-tailed bumblebees.

If you don't want flowers, simply mow the clover lawn before the plants bloom.  Clover grows in dense clumps and is great at outcompeting weeds.

Sow at 1.5 grams per square metre if sowing into existing sward; 10 grams per square metre if sowing onto bare seedbed.

N.B. Although clover grows naturally in Britain, this seed is an agricultural variety and may be sourced from trusted growers overseas.