Perennial. Lower leaves resemble nettle leaves, flowers droop from the top.
Flowers: July - September.
Requires: Open deciduous woods, scrub and hedgerows.
Height: can grow to 1m tall.
Approx 4000 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Betony (Stachys officinalis) Seeds
Perennial. Attractive leaves and many stems smothered in brilliant reddish-purple flowers, adored by bees.
Flowers: June onwards.
Requires: Well drained sunny.
Height: 30cm
Approx. 600 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Borage (Borago officinalis) Seeds
A stout, roughly hairy annual, has bright blue flowers.
Much loved by the bees!
Flowers: June on.
Requires: Sun
Height: 30 - 60 cm.
Approx. 100 seeds per gramme
3-5 day Delivery
Burnet, Great (Sanguisorba officinalis) Seeds
Perennial. An unusual plant with distinctive reddish - purple oblong "knobs".
Looks good with Dark Mullein.
Flowers: June to Sept.
Requires: Damp sun
Height: 45 - 90cm.
Approx. 400 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Burnet, Salad (Sanguisorba minor) Seeds
Perennial. An attractive rosette of leaves which smell of cucumber when crushed. Unusual purple tinged flowers.
Flowers: May-August
Requires: Sun
Height: 30cm.
Approx. 300 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Buttercup, Creeping (Ranunculus repens) Seeds
Perennial. Slightly hairy with long runners. yellow flowers 2-3cms across.
Flowers: May - August
Requires: Woods, wet-moist meadows, farmland, footpaths, wasteland - not acid.
Height: 30-60cm.
Approx 500 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Buttercup, Meadow (Ranunculus acris) Seeds
Perennial. The tallest and most graceful of all the buttercups.
Glossy yellow flowers, superb growing in association with Ragged Robin.
Flowers: May - September
Requires: Damp sun.
Height: 30-90cm.
Approx. 600 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Campion, Bladder (Silene vulgaris) Seeds
Perennial. An unusual plant with white, slightly drooping flowers above a purplish veined bladder. A nectar plant for butterflies.
Flowers: June-August.
Requires: well drained soil and full sun
Height: 20-40cm.
Approx. 1200 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Campion, Red (Silene dioica) Seeds
Perennial. A lovely specimen to brighten hedgerows, meadows and shady spots in the garden.
Bright rose-pink flowers.
Flowers: April - September
Requires: Part shade
Height: 30-60cm.
Approx. 800 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Campion, White (Silene alba) Seeds
Perennial. Pure white flowers. Often growing on the edge of cornfields or hedgerows.
Flowers: May - October
Requires: Sun
Height: 30-60cm.
Approx. 800 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Carrot, Wild (Daucus carota) Seeds
Biennial. White umbelliferous flowers with a pink tinge. Good for drying.
Flowers: June - October
Requires: Sun/well-drained soil.
Height: 30-40cm.
Approx. 1100 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Cat's-ear, Common (Hypochaeris radicata) Seeds
Perennial. A good meadow component with rich yellow flowers and dandelion-like seed heads.
Flowers: May to September.
Requires: Sun/Part shade
Height: 30-45cm.
Approx. 1250 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Chamomile, Corn (Anthemis arvensis) Seeds
Annual. Produces white, 'daisy' fragrant flowers.
Flowers: May-July.
Requires: Sun.
Height: 30 cm
Approx. 5000 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Clover, Wild Red (Trifolium pratense) Seeds
Perennial. Trefoil leaves and pinkish-red rounded flower heads.
Essential component of the spring meadow.
Flowers: May - September.
Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
Height: 10-45cm.
Approx. 1000 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Corn Cockle (Agrostemma githago) Seeds
A softly hairy annual, With beautifully intricate reddish - purple flowers.
Flowers: June-Aug.
Requires: Sun.
Height: 60-120 cm
Approx. 80 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) Seed
Annual, well known in gardens in various colour forms.
Has bright blue flowers.
Flowers: June-Aug.
Requires: Sun
Height: 30-60cm
Approx. 200 seeds per gram.
3-5 day Delivery
Cow Parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris) Seeds
Perennial. White umbellifer flowers like lace. Known as "Queen Anne's Lace".
Flowers: April-June.
Requires: Sun
Height: 60 - 90cm
Approx. 200 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Cranesbill, Meadow (Geranium pratense) Seeds
Perennial. Hairy plant, violet or light blue flowers are usually in pairs on long forked stems . Seed pods will appear lower down the plant while still in flower.
Flowers: June - September.
Requires: Damp meadows, along stream sides, wet woodlands.
Height: 60-100cm.
Approx 120 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Daisy, Ox-eye (Leucanthemum vulgare) Seeds
A well known wild flower with lovely, large, white daisy flowers.
Also known as the Dog Daisy.
Often seen in meadows and on roadsides.
Flowers: May onwards.
Requires: Sun well-drained soil.
Height: 30 –60 cm.
Approx. 3000 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) Seeds
Perennial. A golden blaze in the May meadows and banks.
Basal rosettes of leaves deeply lobed or toothed (dent de lion), flowers are composed of bright yellow ray - florets.
Flowers: April-May
Approx. 8000 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Deadnettle, Red (Lamium purpureum) Seeds
Flowers pinkish-purple, important early bee and butterfly nectar plant.
Flowers: March-Oct.
Requires: Sun
Height: 7 - 22 cm
3-5 day Delivery
Dropwort (Filipendula vulgaris) Seeds
Perennial. Fern-like leaves and foamy cream flowers opening from pink buds.
Flowers: May/August
Requires: Sun
Height: 60-90cm
Approx. 850 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Evening-primrose (Oenothera biennis) Seeds
Biennial. Leaves toothed or with entire margins. Yellow flowers 2-3cm long
Tolerant of infertile soils
Flowers: June - October
Requires: Sun
Height: Up to 1m
Approx. 2250 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Forget-me-not, Field (Myosotis arvensis) Seeds
A delightful annual with blue or pink flowers, will self -seed readily.
Flowers: April on.
Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
Height: 7-25cm.
Approx. 4000 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Gypsywort (Lycopus europaeus) Seeds
Perennial. Leaves are spear-shaped and sharply toothed. Unstalked flowers cluster around each pair of upper leaves on stem. White flowers with red-spotted lower lip.
Perennial. Dandelion-like flowers and seed heads, a good showy subject.
Seeds are magnets for Finches.
Flowers: August on.
Requires: Sun. Meadows
Height: 15cm
Approx. 1000 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Hawkbit, Rough (Leontodon hispidus) Seeds
Perennial. A meadow plant with yellow dandelion flowers.
Also known as Greater Hawkbit.
Seed heads form a clock which attracts birds.
Flowers: June on.
Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
Height: 15-45cm
Approx 900 seeds per gramme
3-5 day Delivery
Iris, Yellow-Flag (Iris pseudacorus) Seeds
Perennial. Sword shaped leaves and bright yellow flowers, will stand in water.
Flowers: June-August.
Requires: Moist situations
Height: 90cm
Approx. 20 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Knapweed, Common (Centaurea nigra) Seeds
Perennial. Thistle-like purple flowers, looks good with ox-eye daisies, also known as Lesser Knapweed.
Flowers: June - September.
Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
Height: 30-60cm
Approx 500 seeds per gramme
3-5 day Delivery
Knapweed, Greater (Centaurea scabiosa) Seeds
Perennial. A lovely plant with large, raggy, purple flowers, looks good with scabious, ox-eye daisy and musk mallow.
Flowers: June - September
Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
Height: 30-60cm
Approx. 130 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Loosestrife, Purple (Lythrum salicaria) Seeds
Perennial. A lovely plant with bright red/purple spikes
Good in a moist border or bog garden.
Flowers: June-Aug
Requires: Damp
Height: 60-120cm
Approx. 13600 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Mallow, Common (Malva sylvestris) Seeds
Perennial. Very showy, tough plant with a profusion of pink/purple flowers.
Flowers: June on.
Requires: Best on poor, well-drained soils in full sun.
Height: 30 – 90cm.
3-5 day Delivery
Mallow, Musk (Malva moschata) Seeds
Perennial. Pale Pink form of Musk mallow.
Much admired in our own garden.
Flowers: July-Aug.
Requires: Sun
Height: 30 – 90 cm
Approx 500 seeds per gramme
3-5 day Delivery
Marigold, Corn (Chrysanthemum segetum) Seeds
Annual. Bright yellow daisy like flowers 5cm across.
Flowers: June - October.
Requires: Sun
Height: 15 – 45 cm
Approx. 755 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Marjoram, Wild (Origanum vulgare) Seeds
Perennial. Aromatic perennial with masses dark purple buds turning to paler flowers, a good butterfly plant.
Flowers: July-Sept.
Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
Height: 30-60cm.
Approx. 10000 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Mustard, Garlic (Alliaria petiolata) Seeds
Biennial. Also known as Hedge Garlic and Jack-by-the-hedge. Hairless plant smelling of garlic when crushed. Leaves toothed and heart-shaped, long stalked. White flowers in a leafless cluster.
Flowers: April - July.
Requires: Damp deciduous woods and scrub, hedgerows. Moist-dry soils.
Height: 30-80cm.
Approx 450 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Plantain, Hoary (Plantago media) Seeds
A grass-like perennial with a 5cm spike of small vanilla scented pinkish-purple flowers. Good reliable meadow subject.
Flowers: June-August.
Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
Height: 30 cm.
Approx. 2000 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Plantain, Ribwort (Plantago lanceolata) Seeds
Grass-like perennial with spikes of blackish-brown flowers with yellow anthers. Common meadow component.
Flowers: April - September.
Requires: Prefers a sunny position.
Height: 60-90cm.
Approx. 400 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Poppy, Common (Papaver rhoeas) Seeds
Annual. The red poppy that is seen in fields everywhere.One of our most popular wildflowers. Synonymous with the 1914-18 Great War. Ideally requires a frost or chilling to help germination.
Flowers: May - July
Requires: Sun.
Height: 30-60cm.
Approx. 11000 seeds per grammes.
3-5 day Delivery
Ragged Robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi) Seeds
A lovely perennial with dainty pink flowers with 'ragged' petals.
Looks terrific in a wetland meadow with meadow buttercup.
Flowers: May-July
Requires: Damp soil and sun.
Height: 30-60cm
Approx. 5400 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Sage, Wood (Teucrium scorodonia) Seeds
Perennial. A good woodland subject with lovely crinkly, light green leaves and greenish-yellow flowers with prominent maroon stamens.
Flowers: July-Sept.
Requires: Shade.
Height: 30cm
Approx. 1600 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Saw-wort (Serratula tinctoria) Seeds
Perennial. Similar to Knapweed. Violet-red flowers 1.5cms.
Flowers: July - September
Requires: Grasslands, open woods, damp-moist calcareous soils
Height: Up to 1m tall
3-5 day Delivery
Saxifrage, Burnet (Pimpinella saxifraga) Seeds
Perennial. Has a finely-ribbed stem and mostly rounded leaf lobes.
Flowers: May - September.
Requires: Dry grassland, heaths and open woodland, not acid soils.
Height: 50 - 100cm.
Approx 750 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Scabious, Devil's-bit (Succisa pratensis) Seeds
Perennial. Soft hairy stem, flowering heads about 2cms across, compact and violet-blue.
Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.Found in many meadows.
Height: 15-60cm.
Approx. 2000 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Sorrel, Sheep's (Rumex acetosella) Seeds
Perennial. Flower spikes are reddish pink - smaller than Common Sorrel - with daintier leaves.
Flowers: May-August.
Requires: Sun.
Height: 7-25cm
Approx. 2500 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
St John's-wort, Common (Hyp. perforatum) Seeds
Perennial. A shrub-like plant with clusters of golden yellow flowers.
Flowers: June - September.
Requires: Sun and well-drained soils.
Height: 30-60cm
Approx. 9000 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Stitchwort, Greater (Stellaria holostea) Seeds
Perennial. One of our prettiest woodland and hedgerow spring flowers. White flowers up to 3cm on slender stalks. Petals notched and leaves narrow and stiff.
Flowers: April - June.
Requires: Hedges, banks and wood-margins. Damp-moist soils.
Height: 25-60cms.
Approx 500 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Strawberry, Wild (Fragaria vesca) Seeds
Perennial. Long rooting runners, has silky-hairy leaves with white flowers that produce tiny red fleshy head.
Flowers: May - June.
Requires: Open woods, woodland edges, scrubland, dry soils, not acid.
Height: to 20cm tall.
Approx 3000 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) Seeds
Tall biennial with conical, prickly flower heads banded with purple.
Can be dried for flower arrangements.
Goldfinches adore the seed.
Flowers: July-Aug.
Requires: Sun
Height: 60-200cm
Approx 350 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Trefoil, Bird's-foot (Lotus corniculatus) Seeds
Perennial. Also known as 'Eggs and Bacon'. Lovely clusters of yellow/orange pea-like flowers.
Flowers: May - October.
Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
Height: 15-25cm
Approx. 600 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Tufted Hair-grass (Desch. caespitosa) Seeds
Perennial. Silver/purplish spikelets on flowers
Flowers: June-August.
Requires: Damp
Height: 30 - 120 cm.
Approx 7500 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Vetch, Common (Vicia sativa) Seeds
Only pink succulent to be found in woods, numerous small purplish - pink flowers
Flowers: June-Sept.
Requires: Sun
Height: 45 cm
Approx. 75 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Vetch, Kidney (Anthyllis vulneraria) Seeds
Perennial. Showy yellow flowers and a hairy calyx. A long flowering period.
Flowers: May - October
Requires: Open sunny position chalk or limestone preferred.
Height: 7-15cm.
Approx. 350 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Vetch, Tufted (Vicia cracca) Seeds
Perennial. Showy bright blue - violet flowers.
Flowers: June-August.
Requires: Sun
Height: 60 –120 cm
Approx. 100 seeds per gramme.
3-5 day Delivery
Vetchling, Meadow (Lathyrus pratensis) Seeds
Perennial. Straggling plant, yellow flowers 2cm weakly scented, branched tendrils. Fruit a blackish hairless pod to 4cm long.