Perennials
We grow a few perennial plants (come back every year) that we know bees love. Our focus is to see a return of insects to gardens. A lot of the herbs we grow also act as attractants for insects.
This is a list of what we have in stock now!
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| Name | Description | Pot size |
|---|---|---|
| Sedum spurium Variegatum | Light pink flowers with cerise eye over variegated foliage in the summer. | P9 - £4 |
| Bergenia cordifolia 'Purpurea' | superb plant, ideal for ground-cover and contrast with large rounded wavy leaves. Occasionally in summer one turns bright red or yellow, while winter frost burnishes them all to a purplish-red. | 1 litre - £5 |
| Leuchanthemum silver princess | A garden classic this picturesque, deciduous perennial (herbaceous) has slim-petalled daisy white flowers in Summer and Autumn. It has green leaves. | 1 litre - £5 |
| Bergemont Lodden Crown | Showy reddish-maroon flower heads above spreading, upright mid-green aromatic foliage. | 1 litre - £5 |
| Evening Primrose | Easy to grow wild flower, great for insects. | P9 - £4 |
| Oxeye Daisy | Leucanthemum vulgare P. A well known wild flower with lovely, large, white daisy flowers. Also known as the Dog Daisy. Often seen in meadows and on roadsides. | P9 - £4 |
| Betony | (Stachys officinalis) A native perennial common in England and Wales, usually on light soils, in open woods, grassland and hedgerows. Attracts: Bees and butterflies. Spikes of red-purple flowers are produced on long slender stems growing from a rosette of crinkled leaves. | P9 - £4 |
| Marsh Mallow | (Althaea officinalis), perennial herbaceous plant of the hibiscus, or mallow, family (Malvaceae), native to eastern Europe and northern Africa. | P9 - £4 |
| Gunnera | dramatic, architectural plant, with massive, deeply veined, rounded leaves held on stout, prickly stems. This majestic plant looks wonderful at the edge of a large pond or stream where its foliage is reflected in the water. One of the most spectacular plants that can be grown in Britain, it requires deep, permanently moist, humus-rich soil, lots of space and protection from cold, drying winds. | 2 litre £14 |
| Woolly Thistle | 1.5m tall and with a flower head 7cm across Woolly thistle is our tallest and most impressive native thistle | P9 - £4 |
| Native Bulbs | ||
| Wild Garlic | Allium ursinum - Edible leaves and easy to grow | 1 litre - £5 |
| Bluebells - Native | (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) Enchanting and iconic, bluebells are a favourite with the fairies and a sure sign spring is in full swing. The violet glow of a bluebell wood is an incredible wildflower spectacle. | 1 litre - £5 |
| Snake's-head fritillary | Fritillaria meleagris The nodding, pink-and-purple-chequered flowers of the snake's-head fritillary are said to resemble a snake, hence the name. Declining with the loss of our meadows, this delicate plant can be seen in spring. | 1 litre - £5 |