Getting Ready For Fall Seeding Season

Native seed performs well when installed in late fall. Get some tips and tricks from the pros at OPN Seed to help make your seeding successful!

Fall Planting Tips for Native Seed

Late Summer Lawn Spruce Up

In the midwest, late August through early October is a great time to install any one of our Eco-Friendly Lawn Alternatives. Read more about it here! Eco-Friendly Lawn Alternatives ship year-round. Order now and store in a cool, dry location until it's time to seed!

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Native Seed Mixes

We've designed our seed mixes to cover a wide variety of applications including habitat for birds, bees, pollinators and more, slope stabilization and erosion control, septic fields, partially shaded areas and wet soils. Beautify your landscape, support sustainability, and create habitat with our broad selection of native seed mixes.

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Seed Packets

Whether you call them Pocket Prairies or Micro Meadows, bees, birds, butterflies and other wildlife will call them home. Seed Packets are some of our most popular mixes to plant in smaller areas of your landscape starting at 100 square feet. This is a great place to start if you're new to native plants and want to shrink your lawn.

Start Your Pocket Prairie

Eco-Friendly Lawn Alternatives

Creating native habitat with one of our seed mixes or seed packets should be done whenever and wherever possible. But we realize native plants may not work in all areas of your landscape.

Replacing your turf lawn with our Bee Lawn Mix or Clover Lawn Mix is a great option where you may have height restrictions that prevent you from planting some of our taller native seed mixes. Mow less and attract pollinators!

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Questions? We've Got Answers!

When Is A Good Time To Plant Native Seed?

Native seeds can be planted in spring (an active growing season), fall (dormant seeding when soil temperatures are below 50F) or as a frost seeding after the freeze/thaw cycle has begun. Please visit our Resources section for more information on seeding times.

When Is A Good Time To Plant Eco-Friendly Lawn Alternatives?

Clover Lawn, Bee Lawn or Freedom Lawn seed mixes can be planted in the spring when daytime temperatures are getting warmer and the nights are still cool. This is typically between April and early June. In the late summer, cooler days and nights will help the seeds to establish. This is typically late August through September.

How Long Do Native Plants Take To Establish From Seed?

Most perennial native grass and wildflower species will need at least 3 growing seasons to fully establish. Annual wildflower species typically germinate and flower in the same growing season they are planted.

How Tall Do Native Plants Usually Get?

Short growing native plants will typically reach heights of 2-5 feet. Tall growing native plants typically reach heights of 5-7 feet with a few species growing taller. All of our Individual Species and Seed Mixes will have a height range listed under Product Details.

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How To Plant Native Grass and Wildflower Seed

Read our comprehensive guide on site preparation, seed installation and management of your planting the first growing season and beyond.

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The REAL DEAL

A wildflower, by definition, refers to a flower growing in the wild without being tended to by people. As a steward of the environment, it's important for you to be informed that not all wildflowers are created
equal.

Increased public awareness has paved the way for many seed outlets to market and sell "wildflowers". A substantial percentage of these "wildflower" species originate from Asia, Europe and places with much different ecosystems. These inexpensive mixes contain mostly annual species and some are considered troublesome weeds that actually displace our native vegetation.

OPN Seed's native wildflower seed is the "REAL DEAL". Our seed mixes include annual and perennial species, native to our region of the United States. They grew up here. They create habitat, support long-term sustainability and beautify landscapes. In short, they belong here! In the event that we include non-native species, it is done for a specific reason (low maintenance, early cover, etc.) and we indicate that they are introduced species.

Over the last 27 years, we have learned and taught a lot about native ecosystems. Our native seed mixes reflect this and we try our best to make ourselves available to answer questions about our products and how to use them. We encourage you to plant native species, to do the right thing and go with the "REAL DEAL", native seed from OPN Seed (Ohio Prairie Nursery).