Wildflower Plants A to Z

This surprisingly musical meadow flower is a must-get for a wildflower garden: as a semi-parasitic plant, it requires robust neighbour plants like grasses and legumes, but also acts as a watchdog against vigorous weeds... and that's on top of the beauty of its golden, bell-shaped flowers, complete with a charming 'chime' as its ripened seed pods rattle in the breeze.

Our yellow rattle plug plants are grown from fresh, UK native seed from wild meadow collections, and arrive ready to be planted complete with the essential meadow grasses.

• Type: Annual
• Height: 20–50cm. 
• Flowers: May-September
• Soil Requirement: Moist or well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Grassland, meadows
• Also known as: Corn Rattle, Hay Rattle, Penny Grass

***Yellow rattle plants are available to order from January for delivery in April. To establish yellow rattle in the autumn, choose our high-purity, high-germination UK native yellow rattle seeds***

Common Agrimony is an attractive, medium height meadow plant, consising of tall spires of star-shaped, sunny yellow flowers. An wildlife-friendly flower, it's attractive to pollinators as well as wild birds.

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 40-80cm
• Flowers: June to September
• Soil requirement: Neutral, well-drained
• Light requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural habitat: Southern UK, grassland, meadows, roadsides
• Also known as: Church Steeples, Sticklewort, Aaron's Rod, Clot-Bur, Fairy's Wand, Money-In-Both-Pockets, Salt-And-Pepper, Sweethearts

A tall-growing upright marsh flower, which grows plentiful parachutes of pink-and-white florets on red stems, and they’re also known for their pleasant perfume when cut. This whimsically-coloured wildflower is also perfect for pollinators!

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 60–120cm.
• Flowers: July-September 
• Soil Requirement: Damp
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Marshlands, river banks
• Also known as: Hemlock Parsley, Holy Rope, Raspberries-And-Cream, Water Agrimony

Wild Angelica is a marshy wildflower boasting boisterous, tall-growing branches that are hairless and often tinted purple. Likewise, her bubbly bursts of bright white florets are often tinted with tiny pink spikes. The Wild Angelica was also once treasured as a decoration for cakes and confectionaries.

• Type: Perennial or biennial
• Height: 150–250cm.
• Flowers: July-September 
• Soil Requirement: Moist but well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Damp meadows, wet woodlands, fenland
• Also known as: Garden Angelica, Wild Celery

Though it prefers cool spots in the garden, the Water Avens are warmly-hued wildflowers, with gently nodding, burgundy stems and sepals- gorgeous enough on their own, but blooming into cups of peach-coloured petals that make the perfect addition to a pond-side palette!

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 30–45cm. 
• Flowers: April-June
• Soil Requirement: Damp
• Light Requirement: Full sun to shade
• Natural Habitat: Coasts, woodlands, damp meadows
• Also known as: Chocolate Root, Indian Chocolate, Purple Avens

 Once named a 'blessed herb' for its uses in herbalism, this hardy, leafy plant can still bless your garden with small, star-shaped, buttery yellow blooms which add some extra brightness to a shady spot- as well as sweetness, as they're nectar-rich and ideal for pollinators.

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 30-60cm.
• Flowers: May-August
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Partial Shade
• Natural Habitat: Woods, hedgerows, roadsides
• Also known as: Herb Bennett, Colewort, St. Benedict's Herb, Blessed Herb

Best known for their distinctly-shaped and aromatic leaves, the basil plant has a lot to provide inside the garden and out, as it produces whorls of royal purple and pink petals which are perfect for pollinators. 

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 30-60cm.
• Flowers: July-September
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained, calcareous
• Light Requirement: Full Sunlight
• Natural Habitat: Dry meadows, forests, hedgerows
• Also known as: Cushion Calamint

A rambling, hairless hedge plant, which produces clusters of tiny, star-shaped flowers in fresh white. Noted for its sweet scent, this vigorous wildflower can grow quite tall when clambering alongside hedges and shrubs.

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 30–75cm. 
• Flowers: July-August
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained, calcarerous 
• Light Requirement: Partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Woodlands, grasslands, hedgebanks 
• Also known as: False Baby’s Breath, Whip Tongue, Wild Madder

The Lady’s Bedstraw is a hardy, sprawing plant which bears vast whorls and clusters of tiny golden flowers. It also boasts a distinct and sweet scent, even when dried: its unusual name originates from its use to scent bedding in Victorian times.

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 15-30cm.
• Flowers: June-September
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Grassy meadows, road verges, clifftops and hills
• Also known as: Maiden’s Hair, Fenwort, Cheese Rennet

As its name suggests, the Clustered Bellflower sprouts dense bursts of vivid violet-blue flowers. Each flower is its own brilliant bouquet, on top of being hardy and attractive to bees and butterflies!

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 30–75cm.
• Flowers: June-September 
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained, chalky
• Light Requirement: Partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Grasslands, coastal cliffs 
• Also known as: Dane’s Blood

This large species of bellflower produces petals in purple and periwinkle blue. Ideal for woodland gardens and lighting up shady spots, it’s hardy and easy to naturalise!

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 90–150cm.
• Flowers: June-September 
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Partial to full shade
• Natural Habitat: Woodlands, hedge banks 
• Also known as: Brantwood, Large Campanula

Though named for its nettle-like leaves, one mustn’t overlook the beauty of this bloom’s bells of pale, bluish-purple petals. Best planted in a dry, shady spot.

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 50–100cm.
• Flowers: June-September 
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Woodlands, hedgebanks 
• Also known as: Blue Devils, Gloves Of Mary, Throatwort

Betony flowers bloom in spikes of rich wine red and purple, alongside distinct and attractive foliage. Its flowers are also known to attract bees and butterflies and they used to be planted in churchyards for spiritual protection. They grow well in any light, with an affinity for damp soil.

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 30-60cm.
• Flowers: June-August
• Soil Requirement: Moist but well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Grassy meadows, river banks
• Also known as: Bishops’s Wort,  Wood Betony, Common Hedgenettle

What else is there to say about the dainty azure arcs of the beloved Bluebell? Though they take several years to develop from seed, fully grown bluebells naturalise quickly and can multiply over time, leaving your garden awash and aglow with the famous fairy-tale flora! In addition, Bluebells can rarely grow in pink and white.

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 30–60cm.
• Flowers: April-June 
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Woodlands, hedge banks 
• Also known as: Bell Bottle, Cuckoo’s Boots, Witch’s Thimbles

Spice up your garden with the quirky colours of the Borage. Its brilliant blue, star-shaped flowers and hairy, scarlet stems are attractive to pollinators and easy to grow with minimal fuss.

• Type: Annual
• Height: 30-60cm.
• Flowers: June-September
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Forest verges, meadows
• Also known as: Starflower Cool Tankard, Tailwort

The Great Burnet is a lively-looking plant, sporting crimson flower clusters atop tall, branching stems with distinct jagged leaves. They’re highly attractive to pollinators, and for a good reason; this wild-growing relative of the rose is not to be overlooked!

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 45-90cm.
• Flowers: June-September
• Soil Requirement: Moist but well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Floodplains, meadows, riverbanks
• Also known as: Burnet Bloodwort

A smaller species of burnet with miniature, round red flowers growing in clusters, as well as edible toothed leaves which are pleasantly scented when crushed.

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 20-50cm.
• Flowers: May-August
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Chalky grasslands
• Also known as: Garden Burnet, Pimpernelle, Toper’s Plant

So-named for their swollen underground stem, the bulbous buttercup is a more widespread variant of the iconic glossy-yellow springtime wildflower. Thrives in acidic soil, with good sunlight to best bring out its golden glow.

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 30–45cm. 
• Flowers: March-June 
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Meadows, grasslands, road verges 
• Also known as: Frogs-Foot, Goldcup

The Creeping Buttercup has classic charm, with glossy yellow, five-petalled flowers on short stems covered with fine hairs. A natural attractant for pollinators, and it adds a wonderful golden glow to lawns, paths, and spots with loamy soil.

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 20-50cm. 
• Flowers: May-September 
• Soil Requirement: Moist
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Damp grasslands, gardens, pastures
• Also known as: Lantern Leaves, Ram's Claws, Sit-Fast

The Meadow Buttercup is the tallest-growing of the buttercups, with a slight preference for damper ground. These bright and buttery, bowl-shaped blooms make an amazing addition to meadows!

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 30–90cm. 
• Flowers: May-September 
• Soil Requirement: Moist but well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Meadows, grasslands, road verges 
• Also known as: Butter Daisy, Goldweed, Meadow Cup

An unusual yet distinct variant of campion, which has grey-tinted foliage and grows drooping, fresh white bladders veined with purple, and five-petalled flowers. A plant with a subtle, withdrawn beauty that also attracts bees and butterflies.

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 20–60cm. 
• Flowers: June-August 
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Meadows, open forests, hedgerows
• Also known as: Cowbell, Maiden’s Tears

In spite of its name, the Red Campion boasts eye-catching fuschia petals, though planted with White Campion, they may produce precious, pastel-pink hybrids. Regardless, they make a welcome splash of colour in a shady spot, and they’re highly attractive to bees!

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 30-60cm.
• Flowers: April-September
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Partial Shade
• Natural Habitat: Hedgerows, woodlands
• Also known as: Hare’s Eye, Ragged Jack, Adder’s Flower

A coastal campion. Grows a bladder-like calyx coloured in coral, ending in bubbly white flowers which look brilliant washing over a rockery like sea foam.  

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 15–30cm.
• Flowers: June-August 
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained, sandy
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Coastal areas, cliffs
• Also known as: Sea Pink, Seaside Catchfly

This pristine white, five petalled perennial is also well known for producing a clovey scent at dusk, not only making it perfect for pollinators, but also making for a lovely plant indoors.

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 30-60cm.
• Flowers: May-October
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Partial Shade
• Natural Habitat: Roadside verges, hedgerows
• Also known as: Bull Rattle, White Cockle, White Robin

This well-known umbellifer is simple in its beauty, but generous, producing pleasing feathered foliage as well as fountains of foamy white florets, often with a dark red central flower. They're surprisingly eye-catching, making a bold statement in a wild meadow!

• Type: Biennial
• Height: 30-40cm
• Flowers: June-October
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Cliff sides, grasslands, roadsides
• Also known as: Queen Anne’s Lace

The Common Cat's-Ear is a must-have for meadows, providing a scattering of sunny yellow blooms which return year after year, all while attracting pollinators and being relatively easy to take care of- they simply are the cat's pajamas!

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 30-45cm.
• Flowers: May-September
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun or part shade
• Natural Habitat: Roadsides, grasslands
• Also known as: Flatweed, False Dandelion

This spindly-white snowflake of a flower have a dainty beauty to them, especially on their pink-tinted, drooping stalks. They’re night-scented flowers, which means that they’re ideal for pollinators.

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 25–60cm.
• Flowers: May-July 
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained, dry
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Coastal areas, cliffs, grasslands
• Also known as: Sea Pink, Seaside Catchfly

The Corn Chamomile's daisy-like flowers are well-known for their attractive aroma that's been compared to apples, and make them perfect for pollinators. A flower that's easy to care for, with a lot more charm hiding beneath its simple appearance.

• Type: Annual 
• Height: 20-30cm.
• Flowers: May-July
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Grasslands
• Also known as: Mayweed, Field Chamomile

An amazingly aromatic alternative to common grass or daisy lawns, this low-growing, daisy-like flowers make for a pleasing ground cover that is easy to maintain once established, but sensitive to trampling. Plant plugs in full sunlight at least 10cm apart.

• Type: Annual
• Height: 10–20cm.
• Flowers: June-August
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Lawns, grasslands

The county flower of Somerset, a low-growing hairless plant with blush pink flowers with feathery edges framed by narrow, grey-green leaves. Discovered in Cheddar Gorge around 300 years ago, this flower is excellent spread or scattered across rockeries and borders. It's also strongly clove-scented, so it's a real feast for the senses- or is that a bit too cheesy?

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 10-15cm.
• Flowers: May-July
• Soil requirement: Well drained, neutral-alkaline soils.
• Light requirement: Full sun
• Natural habitat: Cliffsides and rockland
• Also known as: Clove Pink, Sweet Pink, Firewitch

The Chicory is a perfect mix of energetic colour and grace, producing feathery, sky blue petals on thin, branching stems. In addition to making a creative climber, the Chicory’s roots have also seen a wide range of culinary uses, especially as an alternative to coffee - but we think the beauty of its bold blooms are enough of a boost!

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 30–90cm. 
• Flowers: June-October 
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Fields, road verges 
• Also known as: Blue Dandelion, French Endive, Succory

Imagine a midsummer meadow rife with the Meadow Clary’s tall-growing spikes of striking indigo flowers! Though they’re now a rare sight in the wild, this handsome and hardy clump-growing plant is a sight to behold, on its own or at the back of a border. Noted for its soft foliage, which is aromatic when crushed.

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 80–100cm.
• Flowers: May-August 
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Dry grassland, hay meadows, grassy paths 
• Also known as: Meadow Sage

Clover plants are an essential and easy-to-grow part of a spring meadow, yet the unique beauty of their spiky, carmine red flower heads and namesake trefoil leaves are often overlooked. Scatter them in a lawn or a flower bed for a vibrant accent to other plants. 

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 10-20cm.
• Flowers: May-September
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Grasslands, roadsides
• Also known as: Beebread, Cow Clover

A hardy, creeping lawn flower best known for its 3-lobed leaves, but its pom-poms of tinted white petals make for an excellent lawn flower, and carry the faint smell of honey. Easy to grow in any environment.

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 10-20cm.
• Flowers: May-September
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Grasslands, roadsides
• Also known as: Dutch Clover, Ladino Clover

The beautiful, nodding, bell-shaped blooms of the Columbine flower come in a variety of colours, even bi-coloured, though the most common colour in the wild is a vivid blue-violet, contrasted by a shining stamen the colour of honey, which is attractive to bees and butterflies. A cute cottage classic, perfect for pots, beds and borders, as it’s easy to grow and naturalise, though it dislikes being too dry.

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 45–60cm
• Flowers: June-July 
• Soil Requirement: Moist but well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Woodlands, roadsides, grasslands
• Also known as: Dove Plant, Lady’s Shoes, Pigeon Foot

Producing magenta and white petals, interspersed with rich indigo veins, these tall, hairy stems of summertime splendour make for a magical meadow flower, especially planted alongside poppies or ox-eye daisies.

• Type: Annual 
• Height: 60-120cm.
• Flowers: June-August
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained, sandy
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Grasslands, roadsides
• Also known as: Cat’s Eyes, Kiss-Me-Quick

These feathery flowers produce pale blue petals tinted with purple - a colour so nice, it's called 'cornflower blue'! Highly attractive to pollinators, and its unique, crisp colouration lends itself to many combinations. 

• Type: Annual
• Height: 30-60cm.
• Flowers: June-August
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Grasslands, farmland
• Also known as: Bachelor’s Button

Pure-white, delicate flowers standing proud on long feathered stems commonly found in roadsides and meadows. These umbrella-like clusters grow rapidly in the warm summer months and are home to an abundant supply of bees and pollinators. 

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 60-90cm
• Flowers: May-June
• Soil requirement: Neutral, well-drained
• Light requirement: Full sun to semi-shade
• Natural habitat: Grassland, meadows, hedgerows and woodlands
• Also known as: Queen Anne's Lace, Wild Chervil, Wild Beaked Parsley, Keck

Cowslip plants form clusters of bell-shaped, sunny yellow flowers with distinct tubed calyxes. Known for having a sweet and strong scent compared to apricots, and it has a history in folklore, with uses in weddings and other festivities. An easy-to-grow Easter-time treat!

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 15–30cm.
• Flowers: April-May 
• Soil Requirement: Moist but well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Meadows, woodlands, road verges
• Also known as: Fairy Cup, Key Flower, Luck Flower, Paggles

Hedge Cranesbill is a sublime, showy species of wildflower, its lobed petals a perfect palette of glowing pink and mellow purple, often with darker-coloured veins. This fuchsia firework of a flower is long-flowering and hardy, meaning it’ll grace your garden for a long time.

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 20–45cm.
• Flowers: April-May 
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Meadows, woodlands, road verges
• Also known as: Hedgerow Cranesbill, Mountain Cranesbill

The Meadow Cranesbill gets its name from its attractive, beak-like seed pods, but no bird could match the beauty of this flower's veined violet petals mixed with blue growing in pairs on tall, forked stems. Easy to naturalise and attractive to bees and butterflies, the sky's the limit with this wildflower!

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 60-100cm.
• Flowers: June-September
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Meadows, road verges
• Also known as: Crowfoot, Meadow Geranium

Although its clustered spikelets trimmed with miniature magenta florets are now grown more as an ornamental plant, Crested Dogstail was once grown to be used to make bonnets. An important food plant for multiple species of butterflies, and works wonderfully in a wildmeadow mix, as it's exceptionally hardy- able to survive drought and cold and remain green throughout winter.

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 30–75cm. 
• Flowers: May-June
• Soil Requirement: Moist but well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Meadows, grasslands
• Also known as: Dog's Grass, Dog's Tail Grass, Windlestraw

Produces rosettes of leaves at the base of the stem leading up to its four pale pink petals. A flower that captures the essence of springtime; it's named because it blooms the same time you'd start to hear a Cuckoo's call. 

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 30 – 50cm.
• Flowers: April - June
• Soil Requirement: Moist but well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Damp meadows, pond margins, riverbanks
• Also known as: Lady's-Smock, Cuckoo Bread, Mayflower

Appearance-wise, the Common Daisy’s nothing crazy, with a ruffle of thin white petals, sometimes tinged pink, framing a central crown of tiny yellow florets. But love it or love it not, this famous flora is certainly robust, hardy and long-flowering, meaning its classic, cheery charm will shine in a lawn, bed or meadow for quite some time.

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 5–10cm.
• Flowers: All year 
• Soil Requirement: Moist or well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Meadows, woodlands, road verges
• Also known as: Bone Flower, Goose Flower, Luckin Gowan

Though it shares the same narrow, pearly white petals radiating from central sunny yellow florets, the Ox-Eye Daisy is much larger than the typical lawn daisy, with flower heads growing up to 5cm wide. A robust flower with classic charm, and perfect for pollinators to boot.

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 30-60cm.
• Flowers: May-August
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Meadows, road verges
• Also known as: Marguerite, Pretty Maids, Dog Daisy

With its clusters of uniquely vivid lilac petals with bursts of white, the Dames-Violet seems very different to her fellow violets, but bears the same sweet fragrance, which grows stronger in the evenings! A favourite of pollinators, and the dried petals can also be used for potpurri.

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 60-90cm
• Flowers: May-August
• Soil requirement: Moist but well-drained
• Light requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural habitat: Hedgerows, wood edges, wasteground
• Also known as: Damask, Queen's Gilliflower, Sweet Rocket,

This well-known wildflower provides proudly blazing bursts of golden petals in springtime landscapes! Hardy, easy-to-grow and wonderful for attracting pollinators, the dandelion's beauty is certainly something to sink your teeth into - in fact, its name originates from “lion’s tooth,” referring to their deeply serrated leaves.

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 10-45cm.
• Flowers: April-May
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Meadows, road verges, fields
• Also known as: Bitterwort, Clock Flower, Lion’s Tooth

Everything about this plant appears as soft and sweet as its common nickname, ‘Meadowsweet’: from its long, wispy branches of foaming, peachy-pink and creamy white flowers, down to its strong, sweet aroma. Plant in heavier, loamy soil- perhaps pairing it with other pastel plants for a real display of eye candy!

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 60-90cm
• Flowers: May-August
• Soil Requirement: Moist but well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Woodland verges, roadside verges, damp meadows
• Also known as: Lady’s Belt, Little Queen, Meadowsweet

The Evening Primrose is an easy-to-grow, tall-growing plant that really screams summertime style: its bell-shaped blooms grow in striking shades of yellow, pink and white, and produce a fetching fragrance. As its name suggests, it blooms late in the day, and but seeing the Evening Primrose's floral goblets glowing in the summer sunset is surely a sight to behold.

• Type: Biennial
• Height: 100-150cm.
• Flowers: June-October
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained, sandy
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Roadside verges, meadows
• Also known as: Cure-All, Four O’Clock, German Rambion

Here’s a real treat for you: the Feverfew is a small, bushy plant which grows daisy-like flower heads. Its small-but-dense size makes it a perfect potted plant, and though it likes being under the weather in plentiful sunlight, one may try to raise it indoors to best appreciate its strong scent. Highly valued for medicinal uses.

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 15–45cm.
• Flowers: July-September 
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Waste lands
• Also known as: Featherfew, Pale Maids

If you're itching for a good pond-side plant, this may be what you need: these branches of bold yellow, daisy-like florets with ray-like petals are the most effective way to place some sunshine in a shady spot, but also has use in repelling invasive insects with its unique scent.

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 30-60cm.
• Flowers: July-September
• Soil Requirement: Moist
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Riversides, marshes, ditches
• Also known as: Harvest Flower, Job’s Tears, Pig-Daisy

There is something strangely unforgettable about this flower’s simple-but-unique tiny, baby-blue blooms with rare bursts of pink, and silvery foliage. They’re also perfect for pollinators and have a knack for self-seeding.

• Type: Annual
• Height: 7-25cm.
• Flowers: April-October
• Best Sown: Autumn
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Road-sides, dry grasslands
• Also known as: Blue Mouse-Ear, Scorpion Grass

These showy azure blue flowers consist of 5 petals with either a white or an orangery/yellow star shaped centre. An excellent plant for pollinators, for their nectar and pollen. 

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 15-30cm.
• Flowers: April-July
• Soil Requirement: Moist, well drained soils
• Light Requirement: Semi shade
• Natural Habitat: Woodland, wet woods, hedgerows
• Also known as: Garden Forget-Me-Not

Now here's a foxy flower- literally! Bearing fuzzy-looking, monarch orange flowers with brush-like edges, with stems covered in black hairs, it's easy to compare this low-maintenance wildflower to a fox leaving its den- and the clusters of new flowers which open beneath it to its shy, newborn litter of cubs!

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 15-30cm
• Flowers: June-September
• Soil requirement: Well-drained
• Light requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural habitat: Meadows, embankments, road verges, stony wasteland
• Also known as: Devil's Paintbrush, Golden Mouse Ear, Grim-the-Collier

Few flowers match the fairy-tale flair of the foxglove: its towering stems of majestic magenta bells feature heavily across myths as a source of healing and protective magic, and a favourite of fairies- we can’t confirm if that’s true, but they are a favourite of bees and butterflies! Best grown in the back of a border to frame other flowers. Make sure to handle with gloves. 

• Type: Biennial 
• Height: 60–150cm.
• Flowers: June-September 
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Forest borders, footpaths
• Also known as: Dragon’s Mouth, Fairy Bells, Thimble Flower

Produces pearl white, four-petalled flowers and distinctly toothy heart-shaped leaves which provide the plant its name, as they smell like garlic when crushed. Its leaves are good for culinary usage, but its flowers make an excellent dressing for the garden, with their star-like petals sprinked beneath a bush creating a delectable display.

• Type: Biennial
• Height: 30-80cm. 
• Flowers: April-July
• Soil Requirement: Well-Drained
• Light Requirement: Full or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Woodlands, hedgerows
• Also known as: Jack-By-The-Hedge, Hedge Garlic

Goat's Rue is a medium to tall plant with lilac-to-lavender petals in the shape of small sweetpeas. While it was previously grown readily as forage and medicinal crop, it's nowadays seen as an excellent ornamental plant that is attractive to a variety of insects as a food source. 

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 100-150cm.
• Flowers: July to September
• Soil requirement: Moist but well-drained
• Light requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural habitat: Damp meadows, river banks
• Also known as: French Lilac, Professor-Weed, Italian Finch

Haven’t you herd? These buttery-yellow blooms framed by sharp green phyllaries have a lot in common with the famous dandelion, up to its famously fluffy, shiny sandy-silver seed heads later in the season for which they’re named. However, this hardy herb is a lot more showoffish, growing fairly tall in just about any environment. An early bloomer that closes later in the day, but when it blooms, it truly is outstanding in its field!

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 30–90cm.
• Flowers: May-July 
• Soil Requirement: Moist or well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Grasslands, meadows, roadsides
• Also known as: Clock Flower, Johnny-Go-To-Bed-At-Noon, Salsifex

Growing tall with distinct, spear shaped and toothy leaves, this whimsical wetland plant has a softer side in its clustered stems of miniature ivory petals, scarlet-spotted lower lips. An excellent plant for pollinators, and makes for a pretty pondside palette!

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 50-100cm.
• Flowers: July-September
• Soil Requirement: Moist
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: River banks, stream sides
• Also known as: Bugleweed

Though dainty by appearance, these papery bells of blue beauty on slender stalks are actually remarkably resilient to the elements, and thus we recommend that you let this well-loved wildflower run through rockeries, and avoid overcrowding them.

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 15-45cm.
• Flowers: June-September 
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained, sandy
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Hillsides, coastal areas, 
• Also known as: Cuckoo Shoe, Heath Bells, Scottish Bluebell

In the autumnal gloom, spread some extra sunshine in a marshy environment with these dandelion-like rosettes of glinting gold. Not only is the Autumn Hawkbit long-lived, robust and especially attractive to pollinators, its seeds are also attractive to finches! 

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 15-50cm.
• Flowers: July-September
• Soil Requirement: Moist
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Grasslands, rocky ridges, pathways.
• Also known as: Fall Dandelion

Though this warm-paletted wildflower's plumes of canary-yellow petals look like that of  dandelion, one can tell the Rough Hawkbit apart by their larger heads with shades of red and orange on the outer florets, as well as a pleasing fragrance which helps to bring bees and butterflies to your garden.

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 15-50cm.
• Flowers: June-October
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained, sandy
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Grasslands, rocky ridges, pathways.
• Also known as: Greater Hawkbit

Likely named for its attractive foliage - forming in dense rosettes of mottles maroon leaves - one shouldn’t overlook its brilliant branching stems of yellow, daisy-like blooms, which helps to bring in the pollinators. An excellent ornamental flower which grows well in rockeries, meadows or mixed pots and baskets.

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 15-45cm.
• Flowers: June-September 
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Grasslands, quarries
• Also known as: Leopard

Hyssop is a herb related to the mint, with aromatic leaves which are sometimes used for flavouring and medicine. It looks just as sweet, producing spikes of petals from vivid violet to royal blue and even white. A delightful bit of eye candy that's also attractive to pollinators and easy to grow.

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 40-60cm.
• Flowers: July-September
• Soil requirement: Moist or well-drained
• Light requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural habitat: Grassland, meadows, roadsides

What’s better than the Anise Hyssop’s clumps-forming, soft spikes of mauve flowers? Perhaps only its aromatic leaves! A nectar-rich scented sensation of a herb best placed at the back of a border, where it brings in bees and butterflies. 

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 60-100cm.
• Flowers: June-September 
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Dry forests, praries
• Also known as: Fragrant Giant Hyssop, Lavender Giant Hyssop

The Yellow Flag Iris is thought by some to be the original fleur-de-lis, a symbol of heraldry and royalty. And while the golden, three-petalled flowers and blade-like leaves are regal indeed, its true name is just as appropriate, as this water-resistant plant grows on tall, branching stems which display its beautiful blooms like flags waving in the wind. Recommended as a pond-side plant.

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 100-150cm. 
• Flowers: May-August
• Soil Requirement: Moist
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Marsh, flood planes, ditches
• Also known as: Flagon, Water Flag, Yellow Fleur-De-Lis

The county flower of Derbyshire. Jacob's Ladder gets its name from its climbing, ladder-like foliage. Produces lavender blue, bell-shaped flowers form in clusters at the top of its tall, slender stems.  

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 50-100cm
• Flowers: June - July
• Soil requirement: Moist but well-drained
• Light requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural habitat: North facing areas, limestone hillsides, old meadows
• Also known as: American Great Valerian, Charity, Ladder to Heaven

These thistle-like florets of magenta atop maroon flower heads are an excellent pick for any garden, despite their prickly appearance: Not only are they super hardy, they're vital in wild meadows for supporting weaker wildflowers, and they're also attractive to butterflies and bees!

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 30-60cm. 
• Flowers: June-September
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Grasslands, forest verges
• Also known as: Bell Weed, Hardhead, Tassel

Greater Knapweed is hardy and tall-growing, and helps to bring in butterflies. We recommend complimenting its sharp and showy, thistle-like flowers with a similarly starburst-shaped scabious, or use softer shapes to and colours contrast with specimens such as the ox-eye daisy or mallow.

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 40-90cm. 
• Flowers: June-September
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Grasslands, cliff-sides
• Also known as: Black Top

A robust marsh flower which produces tall plumes of magenta blooms. Perfect for the pondside- let them loose and enjoy these sensational spikes of colour as they bring in bees!

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 60-120cm. 
• Flowers: June-September
• Soil Requirement: Moist
• Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
• Natural Habitat: Marshes, riverbanks, fens
• Also known as: Black Blood, Rainbow Weed, Red Sally

The county flower of Roxburghshire is certainly well-named, as its toothy, cerise pink flowers with deep-rose central markings are among our most vivid, and carry all the allure of a fairytale maiden. Recommended for rockeries, this bloom's beauty is easy to get lost in, growing in clusters in a mat of dark silver-green foliage.

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 10-15cm.
• Flowers: May-August
• Soil requirement: Well-drained
• Light requirement: Full sun
• Natural habitat: Hillsides, pastures, dry banks
• Also known as: Lady's Cushion, Meadow Pink, Spink

There's many a reason to plant the tough, adaptable and hearty bloom that is mallow: cherish it for its heart-winning, heart-shaped pink petals veined with violet, or for its numerous medicinal and culinary uses; it's a flower that promises to please in many different environments.

• Type: Annual or Biennial
• Height: 30-90cm. 
• Flowers: June-September
• Soil Requirement: Moist but well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Meadows, road verges
• Also known as: Cheese Cakes, Marsh Mallow, Round Dock

The Musk Mallow- so named for its musky, strong scent which only gets stronger in the summer warmth- produces pastel pink, heart-shaped petals; no wonder mythology treats it as a flower of love! Beloved by bees, and its precious blooms are an extra-sweet sight in the garden.

• Type: Perennial
• Height: 30-90cm. 
• Flowers: July-September
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Hedgerows, meadows
• Also known as: Abelmosk, Ambrette

These golden, daisy-like blooms about make for an ideal choice for beds, borders, or even lawns: its subtle but sweet scent helps to attract bees and butterflies, and it's exceptionally hardy!

• Type: Annual
• Height: 15-45cm. 
• Flowers: June-October
• Best Sown: Spring
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Hedgerows, meadows
• Also known as: Guild Weed, Yellow Daisy, Yellow Ox-Eye

Marigolds are always a lovely choice for the garden- even in loamy soil. The simple-yet-stunning beauty of these clusters of heart-shaped leaves and beaming golden flowers goes without saying- what’s more, they’re hardy, nectar-rich and even considered to be good luck in some parts of the country. Best placed in a sunny spot where they’ll  give off a gorgeous glow!

• Type: Perennial 
• Height: 25-50cm.
• Flowers: March-August 
• Soil Requirement: Moist
• Light Requirement: Full sun
• Natural Habitat: Marshes, coast lines, river banks
• Also known as: Goldings, Kingcup, Publican’s Coat