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A perennial with dandelion-like flowers and seed heads. A good showy meadow subject. Seeds are magnets for Finches.

Height: 15cm

Prefers: Sun

Flowers: August onwards

Seeds per gram: 1000

Characteristic blue nodding perennial wildflower of woods and shady places. Many butterflies and other insects depend on our disappearing native wild flower plants. By creating a wildlife area in your garden and growing native wild flowers, you will produce an attractive habitat for butterflies, bees, birds and other wildlife.

Good for: butterflies and bees

Height: 30-60cm

Prefers: Light shade

Flowers: April to May

Seeds per gram: 200

A perennial that makes a good meadow component. Rich yellow flowers and dandelion-like seed heads.

Height: 30-45cm

Prefers: Sun/Part shade

Flowers: May - September

Seeds per gram: 1250

Evocative red annual, short to medium height, a lover of disturbed ground and agricultural soils if given a chance to flower. Replenishes its bright vermilion petals each day.

Good for: butterflies and bees

Height: 30-60cm

Prefers: Sun

Flowers: May to July

Seeds per gram: 11,000

Reddish pink flower spikes, arrow shaped leaves turn crimson. Component of meadows.

Height: 15-60cm

Prefers: Sun and well-drained soil.

Flowers: May-Aug

Seeds per gram: 2000

This is the commonest of the St. John's worts wildflowers found in Britain. It is a tall clump forming perennial wild flower which produces bright yellow flowers that are popular with bees. It also plays host to the beautifully coloured St. John's Wort Beetle.

Good for: butterflies and bees

Height: 30-90cm

Prefers: Sun or partial shade on most soil types

Flowers: June - September

Seeds per gram: 10,000

Once common in the cornfields of England, this wildflower has reddish-purple and solitary with undivided petals. This wildflower seeds itself very prolifically and is related to other campions.

Height: 30-100cm (12-40in)

Prefers: Normal soil (pH7) Sunny position near a fence or other support.

Flowers: Jun - Aug

Seeds per gram: 30

A beautiful native perenial growing in grassland and meadows. Good for: Bees and butterflies. Food source for the caterpillars of the Duke of Burgundy Fritillary.  The deep yellow flowers are grouped on upright stalks growing from rosettes of crinkled leaves. Cowslips are a good nectar source for butterflies and bees.

Height: 10-30cm (4-12in)

Flowers: Apr - May

Seeds per gram; 1100

A very common perennial, found in rich meadows. Creating a golden blaze of colour in May meadows and banks. Flowers composed of bright yellow ray-florets.

Height: Up to 50cm

Prefers: Rich meadows, pastures, fields or waste ground

Flowers: April - June

Seeds per gram: 8000

Biennial plant with yellow flowers and purple centre. Likes dry soils and gravelly places, favours calcareous soils. Can grow to over a metre. Perennial. A lovely plant - much admired in our garden. A rosette of leaves throws up a spike of rich yellow flowers with orange anthers, grow in herbaceous border.

Flowers: June - September

Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.

Height: 15- 45cm.

Seeds per gram; 11000

A tall, bright yellow annual or biennial widely naturalised in coastal areas and beside railway lines. Originally from North America, its oil is used in various herbal remedies. The flowers open in the evening and are visited by a large number of Moth species.

Good for: Moths 

Height: 50 - 150cm

Prefers: Dry free draining soil in full sun

Flowers: Jun to Sep

Seeds per gram: 1800

Yellow flowering perennial with a larger head than common birdsfoot trefoil.

Height: 30cm

Flowers: June-August

Requires: Moist

Seeds per gram: 2000

Common throughout the British Isles except the Scottish Highlands, this hairy spreading perennial has dark red flowers which can be found in hedges, woodlands and shaded gardens.

Height: 10-70cm

Prefers:Partial shade on fertile soilds

Flowers: Jul - Aug

Seeds per gram: 900

Straggling plant, flowers weakly scented, yellow flowers 2cm long, branched tendrils. Fruit a blackish hairless pod to 4cm long. Also known as "Meadow Pea".

Height: 50-100cm

Prefers: Meadows, woodland edges, shrubs. Wet-moist soils

Flowers: May-August

Seeds per gram: 100

A common tall perennial found in damp meadows, ditches and river-banks. Its fluffy cream flowers have a strong, heady, sweet aroma. In medieval times the plant was crushed and used as a pain relief as the chemicals it contains are similar to aspirin.

Height: 60 - 150cm

Prefers: Sun or partial shade on damp or wet soils

Flowers: Jun - Aug

Seeds per gram: 1000 

Found along the banks of rivers, streams and ponds or in marshes this tall perennial is striking with its bright magenta flowers. It is a favourite of foraging bees and is the larval food plant of the Small Elephant Hawkmoth.

Height: 60 - 150cm

Flowers: Jun - Aug

Prefers: Sun or some shade on wet soils or pond edges.

Seeds per gram: 3000

The deeply cut pink petals of this native perennial are highly attractive to butterflies and bees. It can be found in damp woodland, meadows and pond edges.

Height: 30 – 70cm

Flowers: May - Jul

Prefers: Sun or partial shade on damp soils

Seed per gram: Approx. 5400

A perennial with yellow dandelion flowers. Also known as Greater Hawkbit. Seeds heads form a clock which attracts birds.

Height: 15-45cm

Prefers: Sun and well-drained soil

Flowers: June - October

Seeds per gram: 900

As its name suggests the leaves can be eaten in salads. It is a perennial with a strange almost round flower head, which is pollinated by the wind. It can be found in a variety of dry calcareous grasslands.

Height: 20 - 30cm

Flowers: May - Aug

Prefers: Dry calcareous soil in full sun

Seeds per gram: 300 

Yellow flowers of cornfields and open places. Perennial, small yellow flowers followed by burr-like seed heads.

Height: 30-60cm

Flowers: June onwards

Requires: Deep shade

Seed per gram: 1400

***Fresh seed from 2020 crop*** Growing in grassy meadows and pastures throughout Britain, this annual yellow rattle plant enjoys well drained soils. The yellow flowers are followed by brown inflated calyces in the shape of little purses or seashells.     Another name for this bright attractive plant is ‘rattle box’ because of the sound effect made by its seeds rattling around inside the seed capsule.  Also known as ‘Hay rattle', rattlebaskets and pots and pans.  

Height: 20 - 50 cm

Flowers: June - September

Requires: All types of grassland

Seeds per gram: 270