Rare plant seeds for botanical research & cultivation

  • Staff inspecting young seedlings in a commercial greenhouse nursery
  • Researchers inspecting seed samples under microscopes in a glasshouse laboratory
  • Potting and transplanting young seedlings in a traditional glasshouse

Grass, grain and ornamental grass species raised from seed: lawn and turf grasses, pasture and hay mixtures, green manures, cereals such as rice, maize, sorghum and millet, and the ornamental grasses and sedges grown for borders, pots and pond edges. Salt-tolerant species used for reclamation and dryland grazing sit alongside the cereals. Each profile covers the species across its native range, how it behaves under mowing, grazing or harvest, the seeding rate and timing that actually work, and the cultivars that matter in the trade. Notes are written from field experience rather than catalogue copy.

This section now holds 135 species entries. Last updated November 2026.