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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Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
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Yellow rattle is an important addition to any wildflower meadow, slowing down the rate of grass growth to create more space and opportunity for a diverse range of wildflower species. Commonly found across natural grassland meadows throughout the UK.
- Type: Annual
- Height: 20–50cm
- Flowers: May-September
- Best Sown: Autumn
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, moist
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Grassland, meadows
- Also known as: Corn Rattle, Hay Rattle, Penny Grass
- Seeds per gram: 270
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
While it’s perhaps best known for its common culinary usage, garlic mustard flowers also make a decent dressing as a garden flower, in our opinion. Produces pure-white, four-petalled flowers and attractive heart-shaped leaves, which smell like garlic when crushed. It’s a shy herb that spreads slivers of pristine light in a shady space, and attracts bees and butterflies, as well.
- Type: Biennial
- Height: 30-80cm
- Flowers: April-July
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full or partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Woodlands, hedgerows
- Also known as: Jack-By-The-Hedge, Hedge Garlic
- Seeds per gram: 450
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
A well-known wildflower with numerous, narrow white petals and bright yellow florets making up its centre. It’s much larger than the typical lawn daisy: its flower heads grow around 3-5cm wide! A robust flower with classic charm, and a favourite of bees and butterflies.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-60cm
- Flowers: May-August
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Meadows, road verges
- Also known as: Marguerite, Pretty Maids, Dog Daisy
- Seeds per gram: 3000
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
One shouldn’t overlook the beaming yellow florets of the dandelion! Some treasure dandelions as a vitamin-rich food source, and they’re a hardy, easy-to-grow flower that’s sure to attract pollinators and bring an extra splash of sunshine to your garden. They’re named from the French word “dent-de-leon,” or “lion’s tooth,” referring to their deeply serrated leaves.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 10-45cm
- Flowers: April-May
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Meadows, road verges, fields
- Also known as: Bitterwort, Clock Flower, Lion’s Tooth
- Seeds per gram: 8000
A prickly plantain bearing spiky rosettes with tiny petals in fresh white and green. It’s one of the most hardy and easy-to-naturalise wildflowers in the UK, as well as a vital food source for pollinators and other animals for those who want to give a little bit back to nature.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 60-90cm
- Flowers: April-September
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands, roadsides
- Also known as: Black Jack, Hen Plant, Ribgrass
- Seeds per gram: 400
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
The Self-Heal is a generous plant: it grows and naturalises in a majority of environments, requiring little fuss, and produces short spikes of maroon and violet beauty which are beloved by bees and butterflies. Its beauty only grows with the years, as it’s happy to self-seed, gifting you a garden awash in life and colour.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 20-30cm
- Flowers: June-September
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, moist
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands, woodlands
- Also known as: Blue Lucy, Heart of the Earth, Thimble-Flower
- Seeds per gram: 1350
Once prized for a range of culinary uses, the Borage herb has a unique palette among wild flowers which is sure to spice up your garden. 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
- Best Sown: Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Forest verges, meadows
- Also known as: Starflower Cool Tankard, Tailwort
- 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.
A smaller species of burnet, bearing clumps of miniature, round red flowers, followed by a harvest of burred fruit. Its main appeal is its leaves, which smell like cucumber when crushed and are sometimes used for flavouring.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 20-50cm
- Flowers: May-August
- Best Sown: Autumn
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Chalky grasslands
- Also known as: Garden Burnet, Pimpernelle, Toper’s Plant
- Seeds per gram: 300
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
A creeping perennial wildflower with Large, white daisy-like flowers. They’re easy enough to grow along with the benefit of being attractive to pollinating species, and will reward you with a strong aroma similar to apples.
- Type: Annual
- Height: 20-30cm
- Flowers: May-July
- Best Sown: Autumn
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands
- Also known as: Mayweed, Field Chamomile
- Seeds per gram: 5000
The Deadnettle, despite its name, is a long-lasting, hardy and sprawling plant that can really bring a wild garden to life! Grows charming little whorls of pink and purple petals, as well as attractive red-tinted, heart-shaped foliage as it matures. Truly a hearty flower to get your garden buzzing with energy, especially as it's a favourite of bees and butterflies!
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 7-30cm
- Flowers: March-October
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands, hedgerows, road verges
- Also known as: Sweet Archangel, Bad Man’s Posies
- 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 wild red poppy is seen in fields across the UK. One of our most popular wildflowers. Synonymous with the 1914-18 Great War. Ideally requires a frost or chilling to help germination.
- Type: Annual
- Height: 30-60cm
- Flowers: May-July
- Best Sown: Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Grassland, meadow, road verges
- Also known as: Corn Poppy, Corn Rose, Field Poppy, Flanders Poppy
- Seeds per gram: 11000
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
This wildflower is also commonly known as Queen Anne's Lace. Produces long stalks with a fountain of white, foam-like flowers, often with a dark red central flower. Also produces pleasing feathered foliage upon a hairy stem.
- Type: Biennial
- Height: 30-40cm
- Flowers: June-October
- Best Sown: Autumn
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Cliff sides, grasslands, roadsides
- Also known as: Queen Anne’s Lace
- Seeds per gram: 800
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
The Dropwort produces long, thin branches of delicate pink buds and foamy cream flowers and thin, fern-like leaves. Everything about this plant appears as soft and sweet as its common nickname, ‘Meadowsweet’, and it has a strong scent to match. Plant it alone or with pastel-petalled company in heavier, loamy soil for a supremely sugary spectacle.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 60-90cm
- Flowers: May-August
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, moist
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Woodland verges, roadside verges, damp meadows
- Also known as: Lady’s Belt, Little Queen, Meadowsweet
- Seeds per gram: 850
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
Famed for its unique and beautiful colour, with perfect pale blue petals tinted with purple in a fluffy formation. This wildflower lends itself to many colour combinations and is highly attractive to pollinators.
- Type: Annual
- Height: 30-60cm
- Flowers: June-August
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands, farmland
- Also known as: Bachelor’s Button
- Seeds per gram: 200
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
The Musk Mallow has a lot of ties to love in mythology and the language of flowers- and with its precious pink, heart-shaped petals, it’s not hard to see why. It’s named for its strong, musky aroma which gets stronger in the warmth, making it beloved by bees- and, should you keep it indoors to amplify its scent, you’re sure to fall in love with it too!
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-90cm
- Flowers: July-September
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Hedgerows, meadows
- Also known as: Abelmosk, Ambrette
- Seeds per gram: 500
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
The corncockle’s beauty is almost artistic: magenta petals fading to white, laced with veins of deep purple. Grows tall and proud on soft, silvery stems. What’s not to love?
- Type: Annual
- Height: 60-120cm
- Flowers: June-August
- Best Sown: Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, sandy
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands, roadsides
- Also known as: Cat’s Eyes, Kiss-Me-Quick
- Seeds per gram: 80
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
An exceptionally hardy wildflower which produces golden, daisy-like blooms about 5cm in diameter. It’s also ideal for attracting bees and butterflies, and has been noted to have a pleasant scent.
- 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
- Seeds per gram: 750
The mallow is a hearty plant in every sense of the word: it’s able to adapt to a variety of soils and seasons, and bears awfully lovey-dovey heart-shaped pink petals with darker veins. It’s also been prized for its numerous culinary and medicinal uses.
- Type: Annual or Biennial
- Height: 30-90cm
- Flowers: June-September
- Best Sown: Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, moist
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Meadows, road verges
- Also known as: Cheese Cakes, Marsh Mallow, Round Dock
- Seeds per gram: 150
A perennial wildflower that grows rapidly during the summer months. Cow Parsley has a hollow stem and grows to be very tall. White umbrella-like flowers that look like lace. Usually found in large clusters on roadside verges, hedgerows and woodland areas.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 60-90cm
- Flowers: April-June
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Hedgerows and woodland edges
- Also known as: Queen Anne's Lace, Lady's Lace
- Seeds per gram: 200
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
Produces a deep maroon flower head crowned with thistle-like florets of pink and purple, with dashes of a deep reddish-black. Don’t let its prickly appearance fool you- it’s an exceptionally hardy plant, but it has a softer side as a favourite of butterflies and bees!
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-60cm
- Flowers: June-September
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands, forest verges
- Also known as: Bell Weed, Hardhead, Tassel
- Seeds per gram: 500
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
In spite of its name, the Red Campion boasts eye-catching pink petals that make a welcome splash of colour in a shady spot. In mythology, they were a favourite of fairies, and in your garden they’re highly attractive to bees. Flowers shortly after the bluebell- planting them together can create a hedgerow of pink-and-blue eye candy.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-60cm
- Flowers: April-September
- Best Sown: Autumn
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Hedgerows, woodlands
- Also known as: Hare’s Eye, Ragged Jack, Adder’s Flower
- Seeds per gram: 800
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 commonly found in meadows and pastures. The tallest and most graceful of all the buttercups. The yellow flowers are split into 5 petals. The leaves have a rounded appearance and are split into between 3 to 7 lobes. The Meadow Buttercup does not possess the runners that the creeping buttercup does.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-90cm
- Flowers: May-August
- Soil Requirement: Damp
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Woodland edges, grasslands, meadows
- Also known as: Tall Buttercup, Common Buttercup, Giant Buttercup
- Seeds per gram: 600
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
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
- 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.
A wetland plant with densely-packed miniature white flowers, dotted with red. Growing tall with distinct toothy leaves, it’s an excellent pond plant that also attracts pollinators.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 50-100cm
- Flowers: July-September
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Moist
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: River banks, stream sides
- Also known as: Bugleweed
- Seeds per gram: 4000
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.
Choosing the Right Quantity of Wildflower Seed
Whether you're just looking for wildflower seed for a small patch or land or looking for large quantities for landscape projects we have a wide range of sizes. At Boston seeds you can buy our wildflower seed in multiple sizes including 50g, 100g, 250g, 1kg and 5kg.
Have a question about a particular wildflower? Check out our wildflower seed advice pages for more info.
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