Garden worthy wildflowers

[Jez]

I'd just like to suggest wildflowers which i think are worth while to have in garden borders and beds!

Aconite, Wild Primrose, Lungwort, Cowslips, Sweet Violets, Wood Cranesbills, Wood Anemone, Forget-Me-Nots, Meadow Cranesbill- Blue and Alba, Vipers Bugloss, Betony, Scabious-Small, Field and Devils bit, Musk mallow- Pink & White, Bellflower-Giant & Nettled Leaved, Red Campions,Common Centaury, Bloody Cranesbill, Ox Eye Daisy, Dropwort, Meadowsweet, Majoram, Leopards Bane, Monkshood, Pasque Flower, Cheddar/Deptford/Maiden Pinks, Welsh Poppy, Evening Primrose, Skullcap, Everlasting Sweet Pea-Pink & White, Meloncholy Thistle, Yellow Toadflax, Vervain, Snakehead Fritilary, Wild Strawberry, Birds Foot Trefoil, Wood Vetch, Self Heal (looks good in the lawn), Sheeps Bit, Purple & Yellow Loose Strife, Gladwyn Iris (Grown for there Winter Berries), Hemp Agrimony, Globe Flower, Red Dead Nettle, Columbine, Greater Celandine, Dark Mullein-Verbascum, Lady's Mantle & Oxlip.

And thats not including Pond areas. Where Flag Iris, Water Forget-Me-Nots, Marsh Birds Foot Trefoil, Marsh Marigolds & Ragged Robin in damp areas will florish.

I wanted to do this to maybe inspire members & Guests to bring Native wildflowers into your Gardens....You will help benefit a lot of pollunators too whilst you admire such beautiful Flowers in your very own gardens & Window Boxes perhaps

I'm sure there are some i have missed perhaps Teazel & Small Teazel too amongst others.

I hope you become interested and sprout wild green fingers!

[galanthus]

your list contains some of my fave flowers jez Especially bugloss, welsh poppies and ragged robin. Tho wld be a little worried about having monkshood, (or wolfsbane) as is very poisonous and I am accident prone, (have visions of falling over with mouth open and impaling throat on it ) it's been that kind of week lol

[Jez]

Originally Posted by galanthus

your list contains some of my fave flowers jez Especially bugloss, welsh poppies and ragged robin. Tho wld be a little worried about having monkshood, (or wolfsbane) as is very poisonous and I am accident prone, (have visions of falling over with mouth open and impaling throat on it ) it's been that kind of week lol

Monkshood is tall so maybe put it towards the back of the border along with foxgloves another poisonous plant worthy in the borders. That way you'll have less chance of eating them. How did i forget Galanthus Galanthus also Solomons sea, Summer Snowflake & Wild Daffodils?

Get well soon

[paulchandler6]

Already have about a dozen of those Jez, but thanx for the input. I now know what else I can get.

Paul

[GuyF]

Thanks for the list Jez, anything that's going to help our native wildlife must be a good thing.
It might also be worth checking out your local wildlife trust website, I don't know whether all of the websites have them, but on the Dorset site they have some lists of native wild flowers suitable for hedgerows and meadows. Over the last couple of years I've been trying to introduce some more native species into the garden and field, and the wildlife seems to be benefitting.
Guy

[SweetRocket]

A good list of plants but if you have a small garden be very wary of Teasel, it is a real hooligan in the garden and can give you a nasty scratch even if planted at the back of a border.
As well as some of the plants mentioned above I have a blue flowered Flax which flowers all summer long and into autumn. Also Sweet Cicely, I wouldn’t be without! Not sure the last two plants are considered native but wildlife enjoy them

[Jez]

Good to news to know that pepes are introducing wildflowers into there gardens. I must stress though to all those that what i have suggested is a good idea and think that digging up native flowers from the wild is the way to do it. DON'T for one some wildflowers are endangered species two wildflowers can perish all to quickly if dug up so buy the time you would get them into your gardens you will sadly find there dead!!!

Seek reputable growers theres plenty of mail order companys who have many years experience in growing native stock plants and harvest seed. Go with these and they'll be all to keen to help you with the right soil and situ plus flowering times and can help you with larger scale meadow creations aswell as knowing what plants look good mixed in your borders.

One thing about wildlife where you might see a difference is when it comes to what pollunators choose to feed on. I was at a Nursery and the bees there where all over the Echinecea i bought a few for one of providing nectar plants to the garden but since i planted them on i didn't see one bee or butterfly take to these they much more prefered the Native flowers instead.

Sweet Cicerly is one i forgot to mention growing in the what is now woodland meadow luckily it's still there in numbers and i'm so glad about that

[Jez]

The Postcode Plants Database - Natural History Museum and click on garden worthy flora and type in your postcode to see whats seeds are worth collecting in your area. Remember only take what you need

[SweetRocket]

Another plant that is really nice to have in the wildlife garden is Lady's Bedstraw. It has such a lovely fragrance that the Victorians used to stuff their pillows with it. Also attracts the Hummingbird hawkmoth, other hawkmoths and butterflies, so a good all-rounder methinks!

[Susie]

That's a great list, Jez.

I would add to it (sorry if they are there already and I have missed them) Cuckoo Flower (if you have a damp spot in the garden) and Garlic Mustard, as with other wild crucifers these are food plants for Orange Tip butterfly larvae and other Pieridae.