Description
This mix has a selection of annual, biennial and quick growing perennial wildflowers to provide a short-lived patch of wildflowers that will provide a nectar source for moths and butterflies, bumblebees and honeybees. After 2 years you can leave the perennials to develop or re-sow. There are 22 species in this mix.
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Species | Common name |
% |
100 | % wildflowers | |
% annuals | 29 | |
Centaurea cyanus | Cornflower |
12.6 |
Glebionis segetum | Corn Marigold |
3 |
Papaver rhoeas | Corn Poppy | 10.8 |
Tripleurospermum inodorum | Mayweed |
3 |
% biennials | 16 | |
Dipsacus fullonum | Teasel |
5 |
Echium vulgare | Viper’s Bugloss |
10 |
Reseda luteola | Weld |
1 |
% perennials | 59 | |
Achillea millefolium | Yarrow |
1 |
Centaurea nigra* | Common Knapweed |
7 |
Galium verum | Ladys Bedstraw |
7 |
Knautia arvensis | Field Scabious |
2 |
Lamium album | White Deadnettle |
1 |
Leucanthemum vulgare | Ox-eye Daisy |
5 |
Origanum vulgare | Wild Marjoram |
0.1 |
Plantago lanceolata | Ribwort Plantain |
4 |
Prunella vulgaris | Selfheal |
6 |
Silene dioica | Red Campion |
7 |
Silene flos-cuculi | Ragged Robin |
2 |
Silene latifolia | White Campion |
7 |
Stachys sylvatica | Hedge Woundwort |
1 |
Vicia cracca | Tufted Vetch |
2.5 |
Vicia sepium | Bush Vetch |
2 |
*English not Scottish origin