Wildlife Mix (100)
NEW 100-ball grab bag, ideal for creating larger wildflower patches. A carefully selected mix designed specifically to support garden wildlife, including bees, butterflies, birds, beetles, hedgehogs and bats – wildflowers are brilliant habitats for garden biodiversity, providing and attracting food while also offering shelter. Includes Common Poppy, Wild Carrot, Corn Marigold, Red Clover Greater Knapweed, Sheep Sorrel, Yellow Rattle, Birdsfoot Trefoil, Tufted Vetch and Self Heal.
Each bag contains 100 seed balls, enough to cover 5 square metres in a garden bed or 15-25 medium sized pots (leave at least 10cm between each ball). Scatter at any time from early Spring until late Autumn.
£7.50
Common Poppy (Papaver rhoeas)
A bright red flowering annual - hugely popular and often used as a symbol of remembrance.
Height: 30-60cm.
Flowers: May to July
The remembrance poppy is the common field poppy, one of the first wildflowers to colonise disturbed ground or fallow cornfields. It became identified with the battle zones of the First World War, or Flanders Fields, which were originally corn fields.
Wild Carrot (Daucus carota)
Also known as Queen Anne's Lace
Biennial (sometimes annual)
Height: 30-70cm
Flowers: June to August
Corn Marigold (Glebionis Segetum)
A medium height annual plant, its flowers are golden-yellow discs with prominent ray florets.
Height: 51-60cm
Scatter: late summer to mid April, but the best results are usually obtained in early spring
Flowers: June to October
Red Clover (Trifolium pratense)
Perennial with trefoil leaves and pinky red flowers. Good weed suppressor.
Height: 10-45cm
Flowers: May to September
The trifolium can help to break up heavy soil over time, plus it adds nitrogen to the soil, meaning healthy plants all round!
Greater Knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa)
Perennial.
Height: 30-100cm
Flowers: July to September
Sheep Sorrel (Rumex acetosella)
Perennial.
Height: 10-40cm
Flowers: June to August
Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus Minor)
A quick growing grassland annual with yellow flowers and two purple 'teeth'.
Height: 45cm
Flowers: May to September
Birdsfoot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)
A perennial with clusters of yellow/orange pea like leaves.
Height: 15-25cm
Flowers: May to October
Lotus corniculatus is such a sunny little thing, why not try it mixed into your summer baskets and patio pots?
Tufted Vetch (Vicia cracca)
Perennial.
Height: 20-100cm
Flowers: June to August
Self Heal (Prunella vulgaris)
Perennial.
Height:10-50cm
Flowers: June to September
The common name Selfheal, sometimes written as Self-heal, refers to the plant having been used as a treatment for wounds and bruises until recent times.
