Design a meadow from scratch using a collection of single species
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Agrimony
Agrimonia eupatoria£2.00Agrimony produces slender spikes of small yellow star-like flowers from June. prefers well drained soils, common on edgelands and waysides. Good for nectar feeding insects.
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Bats in the Belfry
Campanula trachelium£2.00Bats in the Belfry or Nettle Leaved Bell flower grows best in quite shady places. Its blue, bell-shaped flowers are in tall spikes and appear in late summer to autumn.
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Betony
Stachys officinalis£3.50Betony produces reddish purple spikes of long lasting flowers , up to 50cm tall, from June to September. Beloved of bees and butterflies.
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Bilberry
Vaccinium myrtillus£2.00 – £45.00Bilberry is a small deciduous shrub that is in flower from May to June and the tiny seeds in small purple berries ripen from July to September. It is noted for attracting wildlife and there is a particular bee called the Bilberry Bumblebee! Although awkward to pick, the berries make a delicious pie or crumble especially when mixed with other soft fruit or apples.
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Bluebell
Hyacinthoides non-scripta£2.20 – £4.00Bluebells produce masses of nodding heads of flowers above glossy strap leaves in May. They will grow reasonably in most conditions except the hottest and driest. Visited by bees and butterflies for the nectar.
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Coltsfoot
Tussilago farfara£2.50Coltsfoot has bright yellow flowers on scaly robust stems in very early in spring. Fleshy roundish leaves follow later.
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Common Knapweed
Centaurea nigra£2.50Common Knapweed, Centaurea nigra is also known as Hardheads. Purple thistle-like flowers in May to September followed by hard slightly prickly seed-heads. The plant itself has no prickles. Insect friendly.
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Common Reed
Phragmites australis£8.50Common Reed grows waving, tall, grass like stems with plumes of dark, purplish grass flowers late in summer. Excellent for birds living on the water margins.
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Corn Chamomile
Anthemis arvensis£2.00Annual Corn Chamomile has white Daisy flowers, slightly scented, with yellow centres from summer to early autumn. Ferny foliage
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Corn Marigold
Glebionis(Chrysanthemum) segetum£2.00 – £3.00Annual Corn Marigold has cheerful, bright yellow daisies growing just less than a metre tall through the summer.
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Corncockle
Agrostemma githago£2.75Corncockle is an attractive cornfield annual with beautiful, purple pink flowers in July.
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Cornflower
Centaurea cyanus£2.50 – £4.00Beautiful blue, annual wildflower with spikey petals. Flowers June to August.
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Cowslip
Primula veris£2.75Cowslips are a favourite harbinger of spring. Whorls of yellow scented flowers on stems of 20cm. Prefers a sunny spot.
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Devil’s Bit Scabious
Succisa pratensis£2.50A perennial of damp places. Blue flowers from summer to autumn, usually covered with bees
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Field Poppy
Papaver rhoeas£2.00Red tissue paper flowers with black centres held on delicate hairy stems in June.
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Field Scabious
Knautia arvensis£3.75A great nectar source. Blue flowers in summer until autumn
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Fleabane
Pulicaria dysentaricaQuite large yellow daisy flowers July-Sept
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Foxglove
Digitalis purpurea£1.25Tall spikes of purple tubular flowers in early summer
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Great Mullein
Verbascum thaspus£4.00Sturdy, tall spikes of yellow flowers are held above rosettes of woolly white leaves, through the summer.
Seed from Shropshire
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Greater Burnet
Sanguisorba officinalis£2.00 – £5.50Tight round globes of purple-red flowers on waving stems in summer and autumn, over divided, soft green leaves. Grows to 1 metre plus in a season.
Seed from Shropshire
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Greater Celandine
Chelidonium majusSmall, four petalled flowers in May, held above fresh green, lobed leaves.
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Greater Knapweed
Centaurea scabiosa£3.00Large pink flowers through summer to autumn
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Greater Stitchwort
Stellaria holostea£3.00Almost luminous white flowers in spring on long thin leaves. Tends to creep through other plants
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Harebell
Campanula rotundifoliaDelicate sky-blue bell flowers, almost paper thin, belie their toughness.
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