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  Paul @ Ashgate Garden Care August 27, 2009 at 8:11pm

  Try Pictorial Meadows in Sheffield:
  
  http://www.pictorialmeadows.co.uk/
  
  They do some seeds that may be of interest.
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  Nick Mann August 27, 2009 at 8:39pm

  Thanks - the mixes look lovely but I'm really after something specifically native and with a local provenance...
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  Sustainable Land Management August 27, 2009 at 9:13pm

  We have struggled with this in the past, there are a few one man operations about but some of provenance seems a bit shady to me. We got a load of 'riparian estuarine grass and flower seed' at a cost, but really good stuff which was all apparently sourced in the South West of UK, backed up by a loads of maps and reference numbers, permissive slips from NT, (their main clients), etc.,. - but I know they don't want to be mentioned, (as I wrote the quay construction blog I asked them), heaven knows why. I think though that there is a small but potentially profitable niche here definetaly so down here.
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  Nick Mann August 28, 2009 at 11:32am

  Thanks - I do too. I am working with a guy in the Blackdown Hills who is starting to produce a really promising mix from about 70 acres of ancient meadow(www.goren.co.uk), but have no-one further west...
  
  Cornwall Landscaping said:

  We have struggled with this in the past, there are a few one man operations about but some of provenance seems a bit shady to me. We got a load of 'riparian estuarine grass and flower seed' at a cost, but really good stuff which was all apparently sourced in the South West of UK, backed up by a loads of maps and reference numbers, permissive slips from NT, (their main clients), etc.,. - but I know they don't want to be mentioned, (as I wrote the quay construction blog I asked them), heaven knows why. I think though that there is a small but potentially profitable niche here definetaly so down here.