Wildflower Seeds A to Z
From Agrimony right the way though to Yellow-rattle, there's a whole host of wildflower seeds you can choose from if a particular look is what you're going for. Each type of wildflower has its own unique set of qualities. Whether you're keen to create a meadow full of sunkissed golden wildflowers with healing properties like that of St John's-wort or you want a wildflower garden that looks pretty in pink when dressed in Greater Knapweed or Purple Loosestrife - we've got you covered.
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A grass-like perennial Wildflower with a 5cm spike of small vanilla scented pale pinkish-purple flowers. The stem of this wildflower is hairy towards the base. The leaf surface is hairy, although more so on the underside. Good reliable meadow subject.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 20-30cm
- Flowers: June-August
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Natural grassland, pasture, hay meadows
- Also known as: Narrowleaf Plantain
- Seeds per gram: 2000
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
A perennial plant that much prefers growing in woodlands, hedgerows and along roadside verges. The flowers are a deep beetroot purple with white blotchy detailing on the petals. This plant has a hairy, crimson-tinted stem, it is also loved by pollinating species due to it aromatic presence.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-90cm
- Flowers: June-September
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Partial and full shade
- Natural Habitat: Woodland, hedgerows, roadside verges
- Also known as: Wood Woundwort, Hedge Nettle, Red Archangel, Whitespot
- Seeds per gram: 1000
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
The distinctly-shaped and aromatic leaves of the basil plant surely need no introduction, but gardeners may be pleasantly surprised at their flowers, which bloom in whorls of royal purple and pink. As a plant beloved by pollinators and with plenty of uses outside of the garden, this wildflower has something to offer for just about anyone!
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-60cm
- Flowers: July-September
- Best Sown: Autumn
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, calcareous
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Dry meadows, forests, hedgerows
- Also known as: Cushion Calamint
- Seeds per gram: 2500
A smaller breed of sorrel, bearing tiny flowers in red and pink. Its colours add a lot of flavour to the garden, and its leaves can be used as flavourings in food. Self-seeding.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 7-25cm
- Flowers: May-August
- Best Sown: Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, acidic
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands, woodlands, verges
- Also known as: Sour Weed
- Seeds per gram: 2500
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
A tall perennial with lower leaves that resemble nettle leaves and large purple bell-shaped flowers that droop from the top. Tall, hairy perennial that flowers in the height of summer and attracts beneficial pollinators and insects.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 50-100cm
- Flowers: July-September
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Partial Shade
- Natural Habitat: Open deciduous woods, scrub and hedgerows
- Also known as: Bats-in-the-Belfy, Throatwort
- Seeds per gram: 4000
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
This Perennial plant is a part of the Clover and Pea family. A Scrambling plant that is seen through grassy areas. yellow flowers with a pea- like appearance. The plant has a weak aroma. The leaves consist of a single pair of leaflets with tendrils. Fruit a blackish hairless pod to 4cm long.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 50-100cm
- Flowers: May-August
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Wet and moist
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Meadows, woodland edges, shrubs
- Also known as: Meadow Pea
- Seeds per gram: 100
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
These showy spires of violet and royal blue have an airy quality that lives up to their alternate name, ‘Bird Vetch’, with its tube-shaped blooms and long, oval-shaped tendrils both appearing quite feathery. It’s quite a climber, and thrives the most when planted with other tall flora to support it. Sports the same, familiar seed pods as others in the pea family, but when ripe, they turn deep black!
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 60-120cm
- Flowers: June-August
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Hedgerows, river banks, woodlands
- Also known as: Bird Vetch, Canada Pea, Tine Grass
- Seeds per gram: 100
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
Named after its serpentine appearance, bearing a long, speckled stem, not only bearing thin, pale thorns to watch out for, but spikes of azure flower heads and long red stamens, like a snake’s head preparing to strike. Have trust in them, though, and they’ll provide you with beautiful border blooms that are actually a favourite of bees and butterflies!
- Type: Biennial
- Height: 25-75cm
- Flowers: June-September
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Grassland, coastal, heathland
- Also known as: Blue Devil, Cat’s Tail, Snake Flower
- Seeds per gram: 230
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
Produces highly distinct, spoon-shaped cream petals and crinkly foliage, accented by attractive maroon stems and stamens. A subtle but sublime specimen that’s great for pollinators. Recommended for stone gardens and hedgerows.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-50cm
- Flowers: July-September
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Woodland, heathland, coasts
- Also known as: Garlic Sage, Hind Heal
- Seeds per gram: 1600
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
The Meadow Cranesbill is a delightfully airy flower, with violet and blue flowers growing in pairs on tall, forked stems, as well as attractive, beak-like seed pods from which it gets its name. Well-loved by bees and other pollinators, and it’s very easy to naturalise!
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 60-100cm
- Flowers: June-September
- Best Sown: Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Meadows, road verges
- Also known as: Crowfoot, Meadow Geranium
- Seeds per gram: 120
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
An extra-tall plant which bears a band of little, lavender-coloured florets around its better-known spiky round flower head. An excellent wild garden plant, as it grows and naturalises well in any environment, and its seed heads are known for attracting birds and pollinating bugs, for those happy to co-exist with nature!
- Type: Biennial
- Height: 60-200cm
- Flowers: July-August
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, moist
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands, river banks, woodlands
- Also known as: Adam’s Flannel, Shepherd’s Staff, Venus’ Basin
- Seeds per gram: 350
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
An aromatic perennial with masses of dark purple buds that turn into paler flowers. The leaves are an oval shape and can be found in opposite pairs on the Squarish, red tinted stem. A very attractive pollinating plant.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-60cm
- Flowers: July-September
- Best Sown: Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Chalk limestone grassland. road verges, hedge banks
- Also known as: Cooking herb Oregano
- Seeds per gram: 10000
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
A perennial wildflower with an aromatic presence. Cowslip displays a rosette of green, tongue-like leaves upon a green stem. The flowers are deep yellow with orange markings in the center, similar to an egg yolk.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 10-30cm
- Flowers: April-May
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Meadows, grassland, woodland edges, verges
- Also known as Cowslip Primrose, Oxlip
- Seeds per gram: 1100
The Meadowsweet is well-named, as its cream-coloured, frothy flowers also have a particularly sweet scent, and is sometimes used as a flavouring. Preferring moist climates, this marsh flower is a tall-growing and hardy, and its sugary simplicity is sure to fit anyone’s tastes!
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 60-120cm
- Flowers: June-September
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Moist
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: River banks, damp meadows
- Also known as: Bridewort, Honey-Sweet, Meadow Queen
- Seeds per gram: 1400
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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 biennial wildflower flowers throughout the summer. A well-known stately plant with pink-purple flowers with spotting on the inside. This wildflower has tall spikes which can house up to 80 bell-shaped flowers. A desirable plant for pollinating species.
- Type: Biennial
- Height: 50-100cm
- Flowers: June-August
- Best Sown: Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Woodland edges, roadside verges, heathland, hedgerows
- Also known as: Goblin Gloves, Witches' Gloves, Dead Men's Bells
- Seeds per gram: 12000
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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.
Watch out! This chaotic-sounding, robust and hardy marsh flower may just flood your pond-side with plumes of pretty pink and purple petals, which just so happen to be perfect plants for pollinators.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 60-120cm
- Flowers: June-September
- Best Sown: Spring
- Soil Requirement: Moist
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Marshes, riverbanks, fens
- Also known as: Black Blood, Rainbow Weed, Red Sally
- Seeds per gram: 13600
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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 sunny yellow blooms grow on branched stems and have minimal leaves on the stem. The leaves are seen to have a pimple-like hairy appearance. This wildflower is easy to take care of, and are beloved by pollinators as well. This perennial wildflower is a member of the Daisy family and usually has 2-3 flowers on a branched stem. An excellent meadow flower.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-45cm
- Flowers: May-September
- Best Sown: Autumn
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun or part shade
- Natural Habitat: Roadsides, grasslands
- Also known as: Flatweed, False Dandelion
- Seeds per gram: 1250
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Long grass bearing silver and purple spikelets in bloom. A self-seeding plant requiring very little care, its feathery flowers look best in the sun, but make an excellent addition to the palette of beds and borders, as its rugged beauty can match just about anything.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-120cm
- Flowers: June-August
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands, praries, woodlands
- Also known as: Hassock Grass
- Seeds per gram: 7500
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A common sight across Britain, the maroon-tinted spikelets of this plant carry the distinct scent of mown hay which lingers for a long time, making it an excellent dried flower. Early-flowering, hardy and self-seeding, it’s best kept in pots and similar containers to control its rigorous growth.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-60cm
- Flowers: April-July
- Best Sown: Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands
- Also known as: Spring Grass
- Seeds per gram: 2500
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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 hardy perennial with small, white starry flowers, best clambering up hedges or shrubs. Sweetly scented, Hedge Bedstraw will attract pollinators and beneficial insects and is commonly found on dry, grassy hedgebanks and grassland.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-60cm
- Flowers: July-September
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, dry
- Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Grassland, meadows
- Also known as: False Babies Breath
- Seeds per gram: 2000
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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 pure white, five petalled perennial. At night, it produces a clovey scent to attract pollinators. They have a delicate beauty of their own, but they can hybridise when planted alongside red campion to create precious pink and white beauties.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-60cm
- Flowers: May-October
- Best Sown: Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Roadside verges, hedgerows
- Also known as: Bull Rattle, White Cockle, White Robin
- Seeds per gram: 800
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Clover plants are especially distinct, sporting spiked white pom-poms of petals and rounded trifoliate leaves. Easy to grow in any environment, and makes for a decent lawn flower.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 10-20cm
- Flowers: May-September
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands, roadsides
- Also known as: Dutch Clover, Ladino Clover
- Seeds per gram: 1500
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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 lovely perennial wildflower with dainty pink flowers which are divided into four lobes with 'ragged' petals. This wildflower is very popular with pollinating species that enjoy the nectar it produces. Looks terrific in a wetland meadow with meadow buttercup.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-70cm
- Flowers: May-July
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Damp
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Meadows, damp woodlands, wet grassland
- Also known as: Cuckoo Flower, Meadow Pink, Marsh Gilliflower
- Seeds per gram: 5400
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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 Perennial Plant that is also commonly known as 'Eggs and Bacon' or 'Butter and Bacon'. The names that are commonly used for this plant come from the clusters of orange yolk-like flowers and buds which also have a pea-like appearance. The leaves have 5 narrow oval-shaped leaflets.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 15-25cm
- Flowers: May-October.
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands, roadside verges, heathlands
- Also known as: Butter and Eggs, Eggs and Bacon, Hen and Chickens
- Seeds per gram: 600
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Maybe you're looking for something a little more unusual that's a firm favourite with the bees, in which case an ocean blue garden of Borage is what you need. Or what about the Devil's-bit Scabious? A funky looking plant that isn't half as hellish as it sounds.
All of the wildflower seeds we supply here at Boston Seeds are UK native and many of which are certified as Plants for Pollinators by the Royal Horticultural Society. So, not only will you have the most amazing wildflower garden, you'll being seriously doing your bit for the environment, too.
To learn more about each of the plant varieties we supply, check out our Guide to Wildflower Species here.
Have a question about a particular wildflower? Check out our wildflower seed advice pages for more info.
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