WBA 2 Autumn Sown Bumblebird Mixture 2 Year Autumn Sown (AB16)

This mixture is eligible for Countryside Stewardship option AB16

It will provide important food resources for farmland birds and a range of nectar feeding insects, including butterflies and bumblebees on arable land and mixed farms.

If successful there will be:

• An abundant supply of small seeds during the winter months
• Farmland birds such as tree sparrow and corn bunting eating these seeds
• Abundant supply of pollen and nectar-rich flowers between early and late summer
• Pollinating and beneficial insects including bumblebees, solitary bees, butterflies and hoverflies using these flowers

Sow late August to the end of September