Down with boring bedding flowers! Our native wildflowers are vibrant, nectar-rich versatile plants that look equally good in pots, hanging baskets, formal and flower borders, or naturalised in grass.
The wildflowers below are all great for wildlife, and in particular, insect life including butterflies, moths and bees.
All our wildflowers are organically grown on our nursery beds.
Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra)
A fantastic wildlife plant that grows on grassy roadsides and meadows. It's vibrant purple thistle-like flowers have a long flowering season frmo June until late Autumn, whilst its hard brown seedheads can persit into winter. The common knapweed is very attractive to a range of insects, including hoverflies, bumblebees, honey bees, and numerous butterflies and day-flying moths.
Sold in 3 litre pot.
£2.49
Foxglove (Digitalis Purpurea)
Tall and stately spikes of purple to speckled white bell flowers up to 3 or 4 feet high, the foxglove grows freely in lightly shaded situations, such as woodland glades and clearings, and is popular with gardeners. Needing little soil, it is also often found in the crevices of walls and by roadsides. It flowers in its second year, and though flowering time varies, it is often at its best in nJuly. As the flowers on the main stem gradually fall away, smaller flowering shoots are often thrown out from its lower parts, which remain in flower long after the main stem has shed its flowers. The foxgolve is a favourite flower of the honey bee.
Sold in 3 litre pot.
£2.49
Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum)
A tall sculpural wildflower of scrub and grassy places, the teasel produces large egg-shaped flowers in its second year. The flowerheads are covered in lilac-purple flowers in July and August and are popular with bees, butterflies (such as the brimstone, common blue and small copper) and other long-tongued insects. Following flowering, teasel has further benefits - its ripe seeds are loved by goldfinches. It's spent flower heads look great through winter, and has the perfect country name of 'barbers' brushes.
Sold in a 3 litre pot.
£2.49
Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis)
A classic grassland flower, field scabious competes well with vigorous grasses, and produces a colourful display of beautiful lilac-blue flowerheads from June through to September. It' nectar attracts a wife range of butterflies, bees, beetles and hoverflies, whilst its leaves are eaten byn the caterpillats of numerous butterflies and moths, including marsh fritillary and chalkhill blue. In olden times its juice was used to cure sores and skin complaints - and was konwn as the 'scabies herb'.
Sold in 3 litre pot.
£2.49
Oxeye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
The classic oxeye daisy grows in meadows and roadsides but is also popular in the cottage garden. The yellow and white flowerhead appears from June to September and are an important source of food for numerous insects. It is typically one of the first flowers to naturalise itself within a wildflower meadow. It will tolerate a wide range of soil types and growing conditions.
Sold in 3 litre pot
£2.49
Red Campion (Silene dioica)
One of the most attractive of all British native flowers, red campion has vivid pink flowers that appear from May right through to October. Common in woods and hedgerows, the tubular flowers are especially beneficial to long tongued bumble bees as well as hoverflies. Also known as 'bachelor's buttons'.
Sold in 3 litre pot.
£2.49