Wildflower Plants A to Z
So, you're keen to get your wildflower garden growing and you know exactly what colour scheme you'd like and what type of wildlife you'd like attract. Buying individual wildflower plants is one of the best ways to do it if you'd prefer a more curated look to your garden.
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![Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) Plants](https://www.bostonseeds.com/media/cache/grid_view/images/uploads/item/Bluebell_%28Hyacinthoides_non-scripta%29.webp)
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Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
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
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![Campion, Sea (Silene maritima) Plant](https://www.bostonseeds.com/media/cache/grid_view/images/uploads/item/Sea_Campion_Large.webp)
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Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
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
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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
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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,
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Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
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
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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
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Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
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
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![Loosestrife, Purple (Lythrum salicaria) Plant](https://www.bostonseeds.com/media/cache/grid_view/images/uploads/item/Loosetrife%2C_Purple_L.webp)
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Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
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
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![Marjoram, Wild (Origanum vulgare) Plant](https://www.bostonseeds.com/media/cache/grid_view/images/uploads/item/Marjoram%2C_Wild_%28Origanum_vulgare%29.webp)
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Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
Best known as a common culinary herb, the Wild Marjoram has an extra use in providing some fanciful flavour to your garden! Not only does it provide fragrant foliage, but its small, spiked stems also produce clusters of small, rich Byzantine purple buds, blooming into paler pink petals, providing an interesting mixed palette that can compliment both light and dark flower arrangements!
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-60cm.
- Flowers: July-September
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands, farmland, chalky soil
- Also known as: Oregano, Grove Marjoram, Wintersweet
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These upright spikes of nectar-rich, stripey fuchsia flowers are your best bet for a bloom that’s beneficial to the wildlife of your wild meadow- it’s best grown with grasses to balance out both plants and best show off its vivid colouration!
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 40–50cm.
- Flowers: July-September
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, chalky
- Light Requirement: Full Sun
- Natural Habitat: Meadows, Foot Paths
- Also known as: Esparsette, French Grass, Holy Clover
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Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
This whisical wildflower's short spikes of violet and burgundy beauty are just as pretty as its name! Though it's named for its medicinal uses, we think that there's nothing more rejuvinating than the sight of this multicoloured majesty flooding beds or wild meadows, as it naturalises to any environment and self-seeds readily.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 20–30cm.
- Flowers: June-September
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained or moist
- Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands, woodlands
- Also known as: Blue Lucy, Heart of the Earth, Thimble-Flower
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![St John's-Wort, Common (Hypericum perforatum) Plant](https://www.bostonseeds.com/media/cache/grid_view/images/uploads/item/st_johns_wort.webp)
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Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
Looking at its golden, star-shaped flowers and showoffish nectar-rich stamens which are perfect for pollinators, it's no wonder that St John's Wort is famously revered in a variety of religions and myths- even today it's highly valued in herbalism! A great plant to grow for a gorgeous golden glow.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30–60cm.
- Flowers: June-September
- Soil Requirement: Moist but well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
- Natural Habitat: River banks, meadows, hedgerows
- Also known as: Cammock, Devil’s Scourge, Rosin Rose
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![Stitchwort, Greater (Stellaria holostea) Plant](https://www.bostonseeds.com/media/cache/grid_view/images/uploads/item/Stitchwort%2C_Greater_%28Stellaria_holostea%29.webp)
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Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
These dainty white springtime flowers are known by a variety of names: one of the most prevalent is ‘Snapdragon’, referring both to its brittle stems and how you may hear its seed pods make a popping sound as they ripen in late Spring. These silvery starbursts are also perfect for pollinators!
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 25-60cm.
- Flowers: April-June
- Soil Requirement: Moist
- Light Requirement: Partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Hedges, banks, wood margins
- Also known as: All-Bone, Easter Bells, Moonflower, Snapdragon
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These early-flowering, light maroon spikelets are wonderfully versatile, and are popular picks for fields and as potted plants for a variety of reasons: as its name suggests, Sweet Vernal-Grass has a sweet, almost vanilla-like taste to it when chewed, alongside its distinct aroma of cut hay. A valuable food plant for brown and skipper butterflies larvae.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-60cm.
- Flowers: April-July
- Soil requirement: Well-drained
- Light requirement: Full sun
- Natural habitat: Wildflower meadows, margins
- Also known as: Vernal Grass, Spring Grass
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What’s better than spikes of snapdragon-like wildflowers? This particular plant specimen’s vivid violet colouration add a rich and regal splash of colour in beds, borders and gravel gardens, as well as being beneficial for bees and being super easy to naturalise.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 22-60cm.
- Flowers: June-October
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, sandy
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Waste ground, rocky soil
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Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
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
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Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
These vibrant yellow flowers make for an ideal choice for beds, borders, or even lawns: its bright colour and subtle, sweet scent helps to attract bees and butterflies.
- 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
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Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
This dainty-looking globe flower produces an intricate pattern of bluish-lilac petals: the innermost flower, a soft-looking cluster of miniature florets, is framed by long and papery outer florets! A magical addition to a meadow, especially when mixed with other light-coloured wildflowers.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30–90cm.
- Flowers: July-September
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands, verges
- Also known as: Black Soap, Egyptian Rose, Lady’s Cushion
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Perhaps named for its spiky, orange-and-bronze tinted flower heads, there’s no mistaking the sedge’s characteristic fresh green tint and long, slender leaves. Best planted in heavy soil or slightly submerged in water to create a vibrant display at the water’s edge and benefit the wildlife.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 60-90cm.
- Flowers: June-July
- Soil Requirement: Moist
- Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Marshes, river banks, ditches
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Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
Designed specifically to produce yellow rattle plants easily and quickly. Grown from our own quality-assured, fresh, UK native seed, our yellow rattle plugs are ready to be planted in your garden or meadow.
Yellow rattle is a surprisingly musical meadow flower and a must 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.. 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 high-quality, British seed from wild meadow collections, and arrive ready to be planted complete with the essential meadow grasses. Check back in late 2024 to order your yellow rattle plants for delivery in spring 2025, or view our yellow rattle seeds.
- 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
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Choosing different wildflower plants by species gives you complete control over when you plant them, where you plant them and what the end result will be. And buying wildflower plug plants instead of seeds, means that you don't have to wait for them to germinate - perfect if speed is of the essence!
The full range of over 100 British wildflower plants species from Boston Seeds is available to buy online in trays of 25, 150 and 500 plug plants and all are available with nationwide delivery.
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