Our wildflower species are offered here in seed form.
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Yellow-rattle (Rhinanthus minor) Seeds
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Annual. Also known as Hay-rattle, hemi-parasite that needs grass to grow. Pale Yellow, mature seed pods rattle.
Flowers: June - September
Requires: All types of grassland
Height: 20 - 50 cm
Approx. 270 seeds per gramme.
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Agrimony, Common (Agrimonia eupatoria) Seeds
Perennial meadow plant with decorative leaves and spikes of yellow flowers
Attracts bees and wild birds
Flowers: July to September
Height: 30-60cm
Approx. 60 seeds per gram |
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Avens, Wood (Geum urbanum) Seeds
Perennial. Small yellow flowers followed by burr-like seed heads.
Flowers: June onwards.
Requires: Deep shade.
Height: 30-60cm.
Approx. 1400 seeds per gramme. |
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Basil, Wild (Clinopodium vulgare) Seeds
Perennial. Downy and faintly aromatic with whirls of pinkish purple, Good bee plant.
Flowers: March - May
Requires: Part/full shade
Height: 30-60cm.
Approx. 2500 seeds per gramme. |
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Bedstraw, Lady's (Galium verum) Seeds
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.
Approx. 1600 seeds per gramme.
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Bellflower, Nettle-leaved (Camp. trachelium) Seeds
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. |
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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.
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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 |
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Chamomile, Corn (Anthemis arvensis) Seeds
Annual. Produces white, 'daisy' fragrant flowers.
Flowers: May-July.
Requires: Sun.
Height: 30 cm
Approx. 5000 seeds per gramme.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Deadnettle, Red (Lamium purpureum) Seeds
Flowers pinkish-purple, important early bee and butterfly nectar plant.
Flowers: March-Oct.
Requires: Sun
Height: 7 - 22 cm |
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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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.
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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Hawkbit, Autumn (Leontodon autumnalis) Seeds
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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) Seeds
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.
Approx. 1400 seeds per gramme. |
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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. |
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Parsnip, Wild (Pastinaca sativa) Seeds
- Member of the Carrot family.
- Leaves pinnate, with 2-7 pairs of irregularly toothed lobes. Petals yellow, 0.5mm long and 1mm broad.
- Common on chalk soils
- Flowers: July - Sept
- Requires: Sun
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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
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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. |
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Scabious, Devil's-bit (Succisa pratensis) Seeds
Perennial. Soft hairy stem, flowering heads about 2cms across, compact and violet-blue.
Flowers: June - September.
Requires: Poor grassland, fenland, meadows, damp, acid-calcareous soils.
Height: 50-80cm.
Approx 600 seeds per gramme. |
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Scabious, Field (Knautia arvensis) Seeds
- Perennial. Rather coarse, hairy leaves and stem. Flowers in flat heads to 40mm across, pale-mauve.
- Flowers: June - September
- Requires: Grass meadows, dry slopes, footpath edges, fields. Dry soils.
- Height: 60-100cm.
- Approx 130 seeds per gramme.
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Scabious, Small (Scabiosa columbaria) Seeds
- Perennial. A smaller version to Field Scabious, slightly hairy leaves.
- Flowers: July - August.
- Requires: Dry chalky grassland, banks.
- Height: 60 - 70 cms
- Approx 700 seeds per gramme.
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Self-heal (Prunella vulgaris) Seeds
A perennial with purple-violet flower, self-seeds readily.
Flowers: June - September.
Requires: Sun or semi-shade
Height: Up to 20cm.
Approx. 1350 seeds per gramme. |
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Sorrel, Common (Rumex acetosa) Seeds
Perennial. Reddish pink flower spikes, arrow shaped leaves turn crimson.
Flowers: May-August.
Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.Found in many meadows.
Height: 15-60cm.
Approx. 2000 seeds per gramme. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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Sweet Vernal-grass (Anthox. odoratum) Seeds
Perennial. Anthoxanthum odoratum. Gives the characteristic smell of freshly mown hay.
Flowers: April - July
Requires: Sun
Height: 30 - 60 cm.
Approx. 2500 seeds per gramme. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Vetchling, Meadow (Lathyrus pratensis) Seeds
Perennial. Straggling plant, yellow flowers 2cm weakly scented, 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 cms.
Approx.100 seeds per gramme |
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Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare) Seeds
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 September.
Requires: Well-drained soil and full sun
Height: 15-30cm
Approx. 230 seeds per gramme. |
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Woundwort, Hedge (Stachys sylvatica) Seeds
Perennial. Flowers dark beetroot purple with whitish blotches. Loved by bees.
Flowers: June - September.
Requires: Shade
Height: 30 - 90 cm
Approx. 1000 seeds per gramme. |
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Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) Seeds
White, aromatic flowers.
Flowers: June - October
Requires: Sun.
Height: 30 – 45 cm.
Approx. 6000 seeds per gramme. |
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