Description

The Biodiversity Summer Mixture is a carefully constructed pollinator-supporting bulb blend, developed collaboratively by the Dutch Beekeepers Association and the Dutch Butterfly Foundation to deliver real ecological impact rather than ornamental value alone. This mix has been engineered to provide continuous nectar availability for up to 5 months, bridging the crucial period between spring bulbs dying back and late-summer herbaceous plants reaching peak bloom. Designed specifically for bees, butterflies, hoverflies and other beneficial insects, it ensures that foraging routes remain supported through the full growing season. The mixture contains a diverse multi-species composition of Liatris, Crocosmia, Gladiolus, Iris hollandica, and Anemone. Each contributes differently — Liatris offering tall nectar-rich spires in late summer, Crocosmia feeding hoverflies and bees with fiery funnel blooms, Gladiolus providing colour height and pollen layers, Iris bridging June flowering with accessible landing signals, and Anemone extending forage into early and late periods depending on type. Together they create wave-like seasonal succession, ensuring biodiversity support instead of a brief burst of colour. In Irish landscapes the mix performs strongly in full sun and fertile, free-draining soil, thriving in urban beds, wildflower-style borders, business parks, housing schemes, hotel grounds, and large civic plantings where mechanical planting is required. Bulbs can be installed using tractor-mounted planters or hand-set, making them suitable for both large-scale professional projects and pollinator-friendly domestic gardens. Once established, the mix returns reliably year after year, gradually forming naturalised colonies that become richer in flowering density with time. Flowering from late spring into early autumn, often stretching to 5 months of colour, this mixture delivers a living food-source corridor for pollinators while also providing strong aesthetic value — tall vertical spikes from Liatris and Gladiolus, arching flame trails from Crocosmia, elegant Iris silhouettes, and the more delicate movement of Anemone weaving between them. This textural diversity gives depth and layering in public displays, with enough variation to remain visually compelling long after conventional bedding fades. For biodiversity projects, Tidy Towns schemes, ecological reinstatement areas, council verge improvement or hotel and estate landscaping, the Biodiversity Summer Mixture is one of the most reliable, research-driven, pollinator-meaningful mixes available commercially, balancing ecology, longevity and visual performance. This mixture is sold in 2 square metre bags. Volume discounts available.