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How to grow Autumn Hawkbit Seeds
Autumn Hawkbit seeds should be sown in spring or autumn, either outside, where they are to flower, or in seed trays and covered lightly with compost. Seedlings, can be pricked out and grown on, for planting out later in the year.

Autumn Hawkbit –Leontodon autumalis – grows best in dry grassland and is well suited to fertile soils, on sites with plenty of sunlight, where plants will be attractive to Bees. Autumn Hawkbit is a low growing species with a yellow flower, resembling a dandelion that appears from June to October.

Autumn Hawkbit looks best growing with other plants low growing plants such as Lawn daisies, Selfheal, Forget-me-nots and Birsfoot trefoil.

RHS Perfect for Pollinators.
The RHS Perfect for Pollinators mark is only given to plants that support pollinating insects in gardens. Bees, butterflies, moths, hoverflies and many others visit flowers to feed on nectar and pollen; while doing so they transfer pollen and increase seed set and fruit development. Find out more at: rhs.org.uk/plants

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To Buy Autumn Hawkbit seeds
To purchase Autumn Hawkbit seeds please select a quantity above and click add to cart. To ensure the best chance of success, we sell all of our wildflower seeds by weight, which ensures each wildflower seed packet contains a good quantity of seeds. The recommended sowing rate is 1 gram per square metre, and the number of Autumn Hawkbit seeds per gram is approx. 1000. All of our Wildflower seed packets contain seeds of Native British provenance.


Summary
type - perennial,
colour - Yellow, height - 25 to 50cms,
flowering moths - July, August, September, October,
habitat - Dry Grassland (clay, loam), Attracts Butterflies