Perennial Wildflower Plug Plants
Perennial wildflower plants can be used to create long-lasting wildflower areas and meadows, providing vital food and habitat for pollinating insects such as bees and butterflies. Choose your favourite species to plant individually, or use as an addition to our wildflower plant collections or famous wildflower seed mixes.
Anise hyssop has scented leaves with violet coloured soft flower spikes, this is an excellent plant for butterflies and bees and a great addition to any herb garden.
- Height: 60cm
- Prefers: Sun
- Flowers: June onwards
- Dandelion-like flowers.
- Yellow perennial, blooms July-Sept.
A perennial Wildflower plug plant with dandelion-like flowers and seed heads. A good showy meadow subject. The seeds are a magnet for Finches.
- Height: 15 - 50cm
- Flowers: July - September
- Soil Requirement: Moist
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Commonly found in open woodland.
- Purple perennial, blooms June-Aug.
A native perennial common in England and Wales, usually on light soils, in open woods, grassland and hedgerows. Attractive to Bees and butterflies alike. Spikes of red-purple flowers are produced on long slender stems growing from a rosette of crinkled leaves.
- Height: 30 - 60cm
- Flowers: June - August
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
- An excellent nectar source.
- Golden perennial, blooms May-Oct.
A common creeping native wildflower perennial of dry grassland and roadside, with bright yellow wildflowers, often streaked with red. The cluster of long seed pods looks like a bird's foot. An excellent nectar wildflower plant and a caterpillar food plant for the Common Blue, Dingy Skipper and Clouded yellow butterflies.
- Height: 15 - 25cm
- Flowers: May - October
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Perfect for a sunny wild garden.
- Yellow perennial, blooms Mar-June.
A bulbous rootstock with glossy yellow flowers. A good perennial for a sunny wild garden.
- Height: 30-45cm
- Requires: Sun, free drained soil
- Flowers: March - June
- Bold, beautiful star-like flower.
- Blue perennial, blooms June-Sept.
Also known as Blue Daisy, Blue Dandelion, Blue Sailors, Blue Weed, Bunk, Coffee Weed, Hendibeh, Horseweed, Ragged sailors, Succory, Wild Bachelors buttons and Wild Endive. Many varieties of this star-like clear blue-flowered plant are cultivated for a broad spectrum of uses such as salad leaves, chicons or roots which once baked and ground can be used as a food additive and a substitute for coffee...
- Attractive to bees and butterflies.
- Violet perennial, blooms June-Sept.
The Clustered Bellflower erupts with clusters of vivid violet-blue flowers. These perennial flowers are beckoning to bees and butterflies and are ideal to add to any rockery.
- Height: 40 - 50 cm
- Requires: Dry Grassland/meadow, edge of woods
- Flowers: June - September
- Prefers damp soils.
- Violet perennial, blooms June-July.
This distinctive perennial is often found at woodland edges and roadsides, long-stalked with long-spurred blue-violet flowers. Aquilegia plug plants attract bees and butterflies.
- Height: 60cm
- Requires: Damp woods, dry and damp grasslands
- Flowers: June - July
- Attractive to pollinating species.
- Yellow perennial, blooms June-Sept.
The Common agrimony plug plant is known as church steeples, good for a sunny border. It has slender tapering spikes of yellow, star-shaped flowers and finely cut leaves. As well as luring pollinators, wild birds struggle to resist!
- Height: 40 - 80cm
- Flowers: June - September
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, neutral
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Common on banks and roadsides.
- Yellow perennial, blooms May-Sept.
This perennial plug plant makes a good meadow component with its rich yellow flowers and dandelion-like seed heads.
- Height: 30 - 45cm
- Flowers: May - September
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Commonly found in lawns.
- White perennial, blooms all year.
Perennial. Common daisy is one of the best-known lawn wildflowers.
- Height: 4-6cm
- Requires: Sun
- Flowers: All year
- Ideal component for sunny meadows.
- Purple perennial, blooms June-Sept.
Common knapweed or hardheads is a colourful meadow wildflower plant of the thistle family. Tight purple flowers, with lance-shaped leaves. Forms dense clumps over time, ideal for sunny meadows and hedgebanks. A great bee plant, and a goldfinch magnet in the autumn.
- Height: 30 - 60cm
- Flowers: June - September
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Flourishes in direct sunlight.
- Pink perennial, blooms June-Sept.
Common mallow is a very ornate, tough plant with an abundance of pink/purple flowers. To get the best from this pretty plant place in full sun and in well-draining soils.
- Height: 30 - 90cm
- Flowers: June - September
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Vital component for diverse meadows.
- Red perennial, blooms May-Aug.
Common sorrel is a vital component of meadows with its reddish-pink flower spikes, arrow-shaped leaves turn crimson.
- Height: 15 - 60cm
- Flowers: May - August
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Commonly found in wasteland.
- Orange perennial, blooms July-Oct.
This perennial plant of meadows and hedgerows begins to blossom in June and the flowers have been known to linger until November. Common toadflax produces orange and pale yellow snap-dragon flowers.
- Height: 30 - 60cm
- Requires: Sun and light shade
- Flowers: July - October
- Flowers can be made into green dye.
- White perennial, blooms April-June.
Cow parsley is generally located on the edges of hedgerows or semi-shaded meadows. Also known as wild chervil, keck or wild beaked parsley both the leaves and flowers can be made into a green dye.
- Height: 60 - 90cm
- Requires: Sun
- Flowers: April - June
Our ready-to-plant wildflower plug plants offer a quick, reliable way to establish wildflower areas.
- Source of nectar for pollinators.
- Yellow perennial, blooms April-May.
A beautiful native perennial wildflower plant growing in grassland and meadows. The deep yellow flowers are grouped on upright stalks growing from rosettes of crinkled leaves. Cowslip wildflower plants are a good nectar source for butterflies and bees. Cowslips are the food plants of the caterpillars of the Duke of Burgundy Fritillary.
- Height: 10 - 30cm
- Requires: Dry grassland & scrubland
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- Commonly found in damper areas.
- Yellow perennial, blooms May-Aug.
An invasive buttercup found in damp places on grassland, along woodland and field edges with its yellow flowers about 2cm across and hairy leaves which are divided into three lobes with rough edges. This bright, golden-cupped flower is a childhood favourite: if a yellow reflection appears when it is held up to the chin, it is considered as a sign that the person likes butter.
- Height: up to 50cm...
- Consumed by cattle and sheep.
- Purple perennial, blooms May-June.
Often grown as an ornamental plant this hardy plant with purple flowers can withstand the cold and drought whilst remaining green throughout the winter. The tender young leaves are readily eaten by cattle and sheep although they leave the hard, stiff stems alone.
- Height: 30 - 60cm
- Requires: Shady and woodland areas
- Flowers: May - June
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- Leaves used as a substitute for cress.
- Pink perennial, blooms April-June.
Perennial. Commonly known as Lady's Smock, Mayflower or Milkmaids. Was thought to be sacred to the fairies in folklore, and bringing it indoors was deemed to be very unlucky. Young leaves can be used as a substitute for cress due to their peppery taste.
- Height: 22 - 25cm
- Requires: Damp grasslands and river/stream banks.
- Flowers: April - June
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- Can grow up to 4 feet tall.
- Yellow perennial, blooms May-June.
Beautiful bright yellow/green tufted sedge is a perennial, hardy plant with drooping flowers. This can grow up to four feet tall and when planted around waterways the tall spikey leaves provide much-needed cover for the wildlife.
- Height: 60 – 90cm
- Requires: Pond edge
- Flowers: May - June
Our ready-to-plant wildflower plug plants offer a quick, reliable way to establish wildflower areas.
- An aromatic presence in the evening.
- Purple perennial, blooms May-Aug.
These purple or white flowers are great at attracting butterflies and look good in borders, you'll notice they become more fragrant towards the evening. Dames violet plants are perennial plants that don't mind being in the shade.
- Height: 60 - 90cm
- Requires: Sun or light shade
- Flowers: May-August
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- Common component in meadows.
- Yellow perennial, blooms April-May.
Dandelion is a 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.
- Height: upto 35cm
- Requires: Well-drained
- Flowers: April - May
- Can grow to over a meter tall.
- Yellow biennial, blooms June-Sept.
Biennial wildflower plant with yellow flowers and purple centre, that likes dry soils and gravelly places favours more calcareous soils. Dark mullein can grow over a metre tall and is a perennial. A rosette of leaves throws up a spike of rich yellow flowers with orange anthers, growing in the herbaceous border.
- Height: 15 - 45cm
- Requires: Sun and well-drained soil
- Flowers: June - September
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