Help me to choose...
We understand that many customers want to incorporate wildflowers into their garden, but find the choice a little overwhelming.
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The easiest way to consider this question, is to group wildflower varieties by their preferred habitat.
There are essentially three considerations. How much sun does your intended site get? What is the soil type and how dry/wet is it? Then lastly, what is the look you are trying to create?
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You will immediately notice that some varieties of wildflower appear in more than one section. This is because they are good all-rounders, coping with most conditions and aspects.
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PLEASE NOTE - IF YOU CLICK ON ANY VARIETY IN OUR SHOP, YOU GET A MORE DETAILED KEY OF PREFERRED CONDITIONS.
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WILDFLOWER MEADOW
Full sun, or mostly sun required.
Any soil can work, but thin well drained soils work best.
Our super-plugs can be planted straight into bare-earth alongside the sowing of meadow-grass seed.
Alternatively, they are robust enough to be planted into cut paddock/lawn/wild grassed areas, to be left wild as a meadow (Autumn cut required)
SUITABLE WILDFLOWERS
Agrimony
Betony
Bird's Foot Trefoil
Common Knapweed
Common Sorrel
Cowslip
Field Scabious
Fox and Cubs
Harebell
Lady's Bedstraw
Meadow Cranesbill
Musk Mallow
Oxeye Daisy
Red Clover
Sainfoin
Self Heal
Viper's Bugloss
White Campion
Wild Chicory
Yarrow
Yellow Rattle

FLOWERING LAWN
Full sun, or mostly sun required. Any soil that is suitable for a mown lawn.
Some of our super-plugs, can be planted straight into an existing lawn, with the intention of leaving it 'rough' to flower profusely periodically.
(Cut every 10-28 days - reflowers within 3 days)
SUITABLE WILDFLOWERS
Bird's Foot Trefoil
Common Sorrel
Cowslip
Fox and Cubs
Lady's Bedstraw
Lawn Daisy (pictured)
Red Clover
Sainfoin
Self Heal
Yarrow

SHADY SPOT
We sell a number of varieties that will cope with reduced sun, or even barely any at all.
Our super-plugs can be planted straight into bare-earth, borders, or grassland in light to moderate shade, such as around trees, woodland-edge, or shaded corner.
SUITABLE WILDFLOWERS
Bluebell, English
Foxglove
Hemp Agrimony
Jacobs Ladder
Lawn Daisy
Lilly of the Valley
Meadowsweet
Nettle-leafed Bellflower
Primrose
Red Campion (pictured)
White Campion
Wild Tulip
Wood Anemone
Yarrow
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DAMP SPOT/POND EDGE
Contact us to discuss a collection - we even make wildlife ponds and bogs and will plant them for you!
All of these varieties need moisture retentive soil. Some prefer wet/pond edge.
SUITABLE WILDFLOWERS
Meadowsweet
Purple Loosestrife (pictured)
Ragged Robin
Yellow Flag Iris
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GRAVEL MEADOW/VERY DRY SITE
These varieties cope well with drought once established, and need very well drained sites.
If you have areas of gravel that sitting on top of soil (not concrete), had you ever considered plugging in wildflowers for an instant gravel meadow? Our super-plugs are big enough to establish quickly. Water weekly in summer. Cut down each Autumn.
Agrimony
Bird's Foot Trefoil
Common Knapweed
Harebell
Lady's Bedstraw
Lawn Daisy
Musk Mallow
Oxeye Daisy
Self Heal
Viper's Bugloss
Wild Chicory
Yarrow

POTS AND BASKETS
Almost all of our varieties work in raised beds and borders, but the below ones are small container specialists.
Our super-plugs are as big if not bigger than nursery plugs, and create an instant year round feature planted into standard compost. Keep watered (daily in hot weather)Â all year. Cut back each autumn.
SUITABLE WILDFLOWERS
Bird's Foot Trefoil
Cowslip
Bluebell, English
Fox and Cubs
Harebell
Lady's Bedstraw
Lawn Daisy
Musk Mallow
Oxeye Daisy
Sainfoin
Self Heal
Wild Tulip
Wood Anemone
Yarrow
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