Wildflower Plants (All)

Our wildflower plugs are offered here in a number of packsize options. 

Suggested planting density is one plant of each species per square metre - maximum of five species per square metre. Click here for advice on establishing a Wildflower meadow.

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Agrimony, Common (Agrimonia eupatoria) - Plug enlarge image

Agrimony, Common (Agrimonia eupatoria) - Plug

  • Perennial. A good meadow plant with decorative leaves and spikes of star-shaped yellow flowers.
  • Attracts bees and other insects.
  • Flowers: July to September
  • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
  • Height: 30-60cm
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    Angelica, Wild (Angelica sylvestris) - Plug enlarge image

    Angelica, Wild (Angelica sylvestris) - Plug

    • Perennial. Tall hairless plant can grow to 2m, large leaves
    • Stems hollow and purplish , flowers white or pink
    • Flowers: July - September
    • Requires: Damp meadows, wet woodlands, fenland
    • Available from June
    Avens, Water (Geum rivale) - Plug enlarge image

    Avens, Water (Geum rivale) - Plug

  • Perennial. Pink drooping flowers with purple sepals.
  • Flowers: April to June.
  • Requires: From sun to deep shade. Likes damp places.
  • Height: 30cm.

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    Avens, Wood (Geum urbanum) - Plug enlarge image

    Avens, Wood (Geum urbanum) - Plug

  • Perennial. Small yellow flowers followed by burr-like seed heads.
  • Flowers: June onwards.
  • Requires: Deep shade.
  • Height: 30-60cm.
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    Basil, Wild (Clinopodium vulgare) - Plug enlarge image

    Basil, Wild (Clinopodium vulgare) - Plug

    • Perennial. Downy and faintly aromatic with whirls of pinkish purple, Good bee plant.
    • Flowers: March - May
    • Requires: Part/full shade
    • Height: 30-60cm
    Bedstraw, Hedge (Galium mollugo) - Plug enlarge image

    Bedstraw, Hedge (Galium mollugo) - Plug

  • Perennial. Small, white starry flowers, best clambering up hedges or shrubs. Sweetly scented.
  • Flowers: July to August
  • Requires: Well drained, dry soil.
  • Height: 30-60cm.
  • Approx. 2000 seeds per gramme.
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    Bedstraw, Lady's (Galium verum) - Plug enlarge image

    Bedstraw, Lady's (Galium verum) - Plug

  • Perennial. Used in victorian times to scent bedding.
  • Delicately whorled leaves and bright golden
  • Beautiful sweet scent in high summer.
  • Flowers: July onwards.
  • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
  • Height: 15-30cm.
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    Bellflower, Nettle-Leaf (Campanula trachelium) - Plug enlarge image

    Bellflower, Nettle-Leaf (Campanula trachelium) - Plug

  • 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.
    Betony (Stachys officinalis) - Plug enlarge image

    Betony (Stachys officinalis) - Plug

    • Perennial
    • Attractive leaves and many stems smothered in brilliant reddish-purple flowers
    • Adored by bees
    • Flowers: June onwards
    • Requires: Well drained sunny
    • Height: 30cm
    Birdsfoot, Greater (Lotus uliginosus) - Plug enlarge image

    Birdsfoot, Greater (Lotus uliginosus) - Plug

  • Yellow flowers in a larger head than birdsfoot trefoil.
  • Flowers: June-Aug.
  • Requires: Moist.
  • Height: 30 cm.
    Burnet, Great (Sanguisorba officinalis) - Plug enlarge image

    Burnet, Great (Sanguisorba officinalis) - Plug

  • 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.
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    Burnet, Salad (Sanguisorba minor) - Plug enlarge image

    Burnet, Salad (Sanguisorba minor) - Plug

    • Perennial. An attractive rosette of leaves which smell of cucumber when crushed.
    • Unusual purple tinged flowers.
    • Flowers: May-August
    • Requires: Sun
    • Height: 30cm.
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    Buttercup, Meadow (Ranunculus acris) - Plug enlarge image

    Buttercup, Meadow (Ranunculus acris) - Plug

    • Perennial. The tallest and most graceful of all the butter-cups.
    • Glossy yellow flowers, superb growing in association with Ragged Robin.
    • Flowers: May on.
    • Requires: Damp sun.
    • Height: 30-90cm.
    Campion, Bladder (Silene vulgaris) - Plug enlarge image

    Campion, Bladder (Silene vulgaris) - Plug

    • 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: 22-40cm.
    Campion, Red (Silene dioica) - Plug enlarge image

    Campion, Red (Silene dioica) - Plug

    • Perennial
    • A lovely specimen to brighten hedgerows, meadows and shady spots in the garden
    • Bright rose-pink flowers
    • Flowers: From Apri
    • Requires: Part shade
    • Height: 30-60cm
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    Campion, Sea (Silene maritima) - Plug enlarge image

    Campion, Sea (Silene maritima) - Plug

  • Perennial. Solitary white flowers with a net veined 'bladder' and thick waxy leaves Ideal for a rockery.
  • Flowers: June-August.
  • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
  • Height: 15cm
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    Campion, White (Silene alba) - Plug enlarge image

    Campion, White (Silene alba) - Plug

    • Perennial, pure white flowers.
    • Often growing on the edge of cornfields, hedgerows and waste ground.
    • Flowers: May onwards.
    • Requires: Sun
    • Height: To about 1m
    Carrot, Wild (Daucus carota) - Plug enlarge image

    Carrot, Wild (Daucus carota) - Plug

    • Biennial with white umbelliferous flowers with a pink tinge.
    • Good for drying.
    • Looks good growing with scabious.
    • Flowers: June on
    • Requires: Sun/well-drained soil.
    • Height: 30-40cm
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    Cats Ear, Common (Hypochaeris radicata) - Plug enlarge image

    Cats Ear, Common (Hypochaeris radicata) - Plug

    • 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
    Clover, Wild Red (Trifolium pratense) - Plug enlarge image

    Clover, Wild Red (Trifolium pratense) - Plug

  • Perennial. Trefoil leaves and pinkish-red clover knobs.
  • Essential component of the spring meadow.
  • Flowers: May on.
  • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
  • Height: 10-45cm.
  • Available from June
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    Cowslip (Primula veris) - Plug enlarge image

    Cowslip (Primula veris) - Plug

    • Perennial. Flowers scented 10-15mm, clustered on a long, leafless stem.
    • Deep yellow with orange markings in centre.
    • Flowers: April - May.
    • Requires: Dry Grassland & scrubland, not acid soils.
    • Height: 15 - 30cm.
    Daisy, Ox-eye (Leucanthemum vulgare) - Plug enlarge image

    Daisy, Ox-eye (Leucanthemum vulgare) - Plug

    • 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 on.
    • Requires: Sun well-drained soil.
    • Height: 30 - 60 cm.
    • Available from May
    Dropwort (Filipendula vulgaris) - Plug enlarge image

    Dropwort (Filipendula vulgaris) - Plug

    • Perennial
    • Fern-like leaves and foamy cream flowers opening from pink buds
    • Flowers: May/August
    • Requires: Sun
    • Height: 60-90cm
    Foxglove, Wild (Digitalis purpurea) - Plug enlarge image

    Foxglove, Wild (Digitalis purpurea) - Plug

    • Found in open woods, clearings, footpaths; on acid soils.
    • This specie is a typical biennial, the flowering stem grows up in the second year
    • The plant normally dies after the seeds have been dispersed. 
    • Flowers: June/September
    • Requires: Sun or light shade and well drained soil
    • Height: 60 - 150 cm
    • Available from June
    Goatsbeard (Tragopogon pratensis) - Plug enlarge image

    Goatsbeard (Tragopogon pratensis) - Plug

  • Perennial. Yellow dandelion flowers followed by impressive seed heads which are highly attractive to birds.
  • Flowers: June on.
  • Requires: Sun.
  • Height: 30-90cm
    Gypsywort (Lycopus europaeus) - Plug enlarge image

    Gypsywort (Lycopus europaeus) - Plug

  • 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.
  • Flowers: July - September.
  • Requires: Overgrown pond margins, reed beds, ditches, marshes, wet-damp soils.
  • Height: 50-100cm.
  • Approx 4000 seeds per gramme
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    Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia) - Plug enlarge image

    Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia) - Plug

  • Perennial. A well-loved wild flower also known as Scottish Bluebell.
  • Dainty blue 'bells' which attract bees
  • Recommended for the rockery.
  • Flowers: July on
  • Requires: Sun and dry sandy soil
  • Height: 15-45cm
  • Available from June
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    Hawkbit, Autumn (Leontodon autumnalis) - Plug enlarge image

    Hawkbit, Autumn (Leontodon autumnalis) - Plug

  • Perennial. Dandelion-like flowers and seed heads, a good showy meadow subject.
  • Seeds are magnets for Finches.
  • Flowers: August on.
  • Requires: Sun.
  • Height: 15cm
    Hawkbit, Rough (Leontodon hispidus) - Plug enlarge image

    Hawkbit, Rough (Leontodon hispidus) - Plug

  • 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
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    Iris, Yellow-Flag (Iris pseudacorus) - Plug enlarge image

    Iris, Yellow-Flag (Iris pseudacorus) - Plug

  • Perennial. Sword shaped leaves and bright yellow flowers, will stand in water.
  • Flowers: June-August.
  • Requires: Moist situations
  • Height: 90cm
    Knapweed, Common (Centaurea nigra) - Plug enlarge image

    Knapweed, Common (Centaurea nigra) - Plug

    • Perennial. Thistle-like purple flowers, looks good with ox-eye daisies, also known as Lesser Knapweed.
    • Flowers: June on.
    • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
    • Height: 30-60cm
    Knapweed, Greater (Centaurea scabiosa) - Plug enlarge image

    Knapweed, Greater (Centaurea scabiosa) - Plug

    • Perennial
    • A plant with purple flowers, looks good with scabious, ox-eye daisy and musk mallow
    • Flowers: July on
    • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil
    • Height: 30-60cm
    • Available from June
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    Loosestrife, Purple (Lythrum salicaria) - Plug enlarge image

    Loosestrife, Purple (Lythrum salicaria) - Plug

    • 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
    • Available from June
    Mallow, Musk (Malva moschata) - Plug enlarge image

    Mallow, Musk (Malva moschata) - Plug

  • Perennial. White form of Musk mallow.
  • Much admired in our own garden.
  • Flowers: July-Aug.
  • Requires: Sun
  • Height: 30 – 90 cm
  • Available from May
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    Marjoram, Wild (Origanum vulgare) - Plug enlarge image

    Marjoram, Wild (Origanum vulgare) - Plug

  • 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
    Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) - Plug enlarge image

    Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) - Plug

    • Perennial. A lovely plant for the bog garden or moist border.
    • Foamy clusters of small, sweetly fragrant, cream flowers.
    • Flowers: June-Sept.
    • Requires: Sun and damp soil.
    Mustard , Garlic (Alliaria petiolata) - Plug enlarge image

    Mustard , Garlic (Alliaria petiolata) - Plug

    • 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.
    Plantain, Hoary (Plantago media) - Plug enlarge image

    Plantain, Hoary (Plantago media) - Plug

    • 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.
    Plantain, Ribwort (Plantago lanceolata) - Plug enlarge image

    Plantain, Ribwort (Plantago lanceolata) - Plug

  • Grass-like perennial with spikes of blackish-brown flowers with yellow anthers. Common meadow component.
  • Flowers: April on.
  • Requires: Prefers a sunny position.
  • Height: 60-90cm.
    Primrose, Wild (Primula vulgaris) - Plug enlarge image

    Primrose, Wild (Primula vulgaris) - Plug

    • A native perennial common throughout the British Isles.
    • Grows in woods, hedgebanks and grassy places.
    • Height to 20cm.
    • The name comes from prima rosa - first rose.
    Ragged Robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi) - Plug enlarge image

    Ragged Robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi) - Plug

    • 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
    Sage, Wood (Teucrium scorodonia) - Plug enlarge image

    Sage, Wood (Teucrium scorodonia) - Plug

  • 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
    Sawort (Serratula tinctoria) - Plug enlarge image

    Sawort (Serratula tinctoria) - Plug

    • Perennial. Similar to Knapweed. Violet-red flowers size 1.5cms.
    • Flowers: July - September
    • Requires: Grasslands, open woods, damp-moist calcareous soils
    Saxifrage, Burnet (Pimpinella saxifraga) - Plug enlarge image

    Saxifrage, Burnet (Pimpinella saxifraga) - Plug

    • 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.
    Scabious, Field (Knautia arvensis) - Plug enlarge image

    Scabious, Field (Knautia arvensis) - Plug

    • Perennial. Blue-lilac 'pincushion' flowers in summer.
    • Looks attractive with ox-eye daisies.
    • A nectar plant for butterflies & bees.
    • Flowers: June onwards.
    • Requires: Sun and well drained soil.
    • Height: 30-90 cm
    • Available from June
    Scabious, Small (Scabiosa columbaria) - Plug enlarge image

    Scabious, Small (Scabiosa columbaria) - Plug

    • Perennial
    • A compact small plant with pale blue flowers, plants are a magnet for butterflies.
    • Flowers: July onwards.
    • Requires: Lime-rich soil and sun.
    • Height: 30cm
    Self-Heal (Prunella vulgaris) - Plug enlarge image

    Self-Heal (Prunella vulgaris) - Plug

    • A perennial with a purple-violet flower.
    • Self-seeds readily.
    • Flowers: June on.
    • Requires: Sun or semi-shade
    • Height: Up to 20cm.
    Sneezewort (Achillea ptarmica) - Plug enlarge image

    Sneezewort (Achillea ptarmica) - Plug

    • Perennial. Leaves narrow, pointed and finely toothed.
    • Small flower heads in loose clusters.
    • Flowers: July - September
    • Requires: Grasslands, marshes, damp soil. Not calcareous soils.
    • Height: 25 - 50 cms
    • Available from May/June
    Soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) - Plug enlarge image

    Soapwort (Saponaria officinalis) - Plug

  • Perennial. Flowers weakly-scented and clustered in the upper leaves, can be pale pink or white. 
  • Flowers: June - September.
  • Requires: Damp-moist soils, Found along footpaths, waste ground, hedges and river banks.
  • Height: 50 -70 cms.
  • Available from May
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    Sorrel, Common (Rumex acetosa) - Plug enlarge image

    Sorrel, Common (Rumex acetosa) - Plug

    • Perennial. Reddish pink flower spikes, arrow shaped leaves turn crimson.
    • Component of meadows.
    • Flowers: May-Aug.
    • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
    • Height: 15-60cm.
    Sorrel, Sheeps (Rumex acetosella) - Plug enlarge image

    Sorrel, Sheeps (Rumex acetosella) - Plug

  • Perennial. Flower spikes are reddish pink - smaller than Common Sorrel - with daintier leaves.
  • Flowers: May-August.
  • Requires: Sun.
  • Height: 7-25cm
    St John's-Wort, Hairy (Hypericum hirsutum) - Plug enlarge image

    St John's-Wort, Hairy (Hypericum hirsutum) - Plug

    • Perennial. Hairs on stems and on both sides of leaves distinguish this specie. Flowers pale-yellow and quite large (to 1.5cm across).
    • Flowers: July - August.
    • Requires: Damp woods, scrub, shaded areas, usually on calcareous soils.
    • height: 60-100 cms.
    • Approx 12000 seeds per gramme.
    St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) - Plug enlarge image

    St. John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) - Plug

    • Perennial. A shrub-like plant with clusters of golden yellow flowers.
    • Flowers: July on.
    • Requires: Sun and well-drained soils.
    • Height: 30-60cm
    Stitchwort, Greater (Stellaria holostea) - Plug enlarge image

    Stitchwort, Greater (Stellaria holostea) - Plug

  • 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.
  • Available from May/June
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    Strawberry, Wild (Fragaria vesca) - Plug enlarge image

    Strawberry, Wild (Fragaria vesca) - Plug

  • 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
    Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) - Plug enlarge image

    Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) - Plug

  • Tall biennial with conical, prickly flower heads banded with purple.
  • Can be dried.
  • Looks superb with the setting sun as a background.
  • Gold Finches adore the seed.
  • Flowers: July-Aug.
  • Requires: Sun
  • Height: 60-200cm
    Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) - Plug enlarge image

    Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) - Plug

  • Perennial. A plant of hedgerows and meadows with yellow/orange snap-dragon flowers.
  • Flowers: July on.
  • Requires: Sun/light shade.
  • Height: 30-60cm
  • Available from May
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    Trefoil, Birdsfoot (Lotus corniculatus) - Plug enlarge image

    Trefoil, Birdsfoot (Lotus corniculatus) - Plug

    • Perennial. 'Eggs and Bacon'
    • Clusters of yellow/orange pea-like flowers.
    • Flowers: May on.
    • Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
    • Height: 15-25cm
    Vetch, Kidney (Anthyllis vulneraria) - Plug enlarge image

    Vetch, Kidney (Anthyllis vulneraria) - Plug

    • Perennial. Showy yellow flowers and a hairy calyx.
    • A long flowering period.
    • Flowers: May on.
    • Requires: Open sunny position chalk or limestone preferred.
    • Height: 7-15cm.
    Vetch, Tufted (Vicia cracca) - Plug enlarge image

    Vetch, Tufted (Vicia cracca) - Plug

  • Perennial. Showy bright blue - violet flowers.
  • Flowers: June-Aug.
  • Requires: Sun
  • Height: 60 –120 cm
  • Approx. 100 seeds per gramme.
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    Vetchling, Meadow (Lathyrus pratensis) - Plug enlarge image

    Vetchling, Meadow (Lathyrus pratensis) - Plug

  • Perennial. Straggling plant, flowers weakly scented, yellow flowers 2cm long, branched tendrils. Fruit a blackish hairless pod to 4cm long. 
  • Also known as "Meadow Pea".
  • Flowers: May - August.
  • Requires: Meadows, woodland edges, shrubs. Wet-moist soils.
  • Height: 50 - 100 cm
    Vipers Bugloss (Echium vulgare) - Plug enlarge image

    Vipers Bugloss (Echium vulgare) - Plug

  • Flowers on tall spikes with pink buds opening to a glorious display of vivid blue.
  • A fantastic plant, highly attractive to bees.
  • Flowers: June to Sept.
  • Requires: Well-drained soil and full sun
  • Height: 15-30cm

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    Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) - Plug enlarge image

    Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) - Plug

    • White, aromatic flowers.
    • Flowers: June on.
    • Requires: Sun.
    • Height: 30 – 45 cm.