A collection of flowers selected by Sarah Raven for the ability of their flowers to attract wildlife to your garden.
Johnsons Seeds:
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A tangerine californian poppy with delicate, silvery foliage and a perfect garden plant for edging paths, giving a naturalistic feel to any garden.
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Luscious red and crimson flower achilleas, come alive with butterflies and bees. Cut to the ground when the flowers look tired and they reshoot to flower again for week after week.
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Like a beautiful, delicate chandelier
Easy to grow seeds develop into bulbs which produce flowers like a delicate chandelier -beautiful. Mature plants soon form large clumps with many flower spikes which you can then lift and divide to create further displays
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Johnsons Seeds:
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Beautiful ethereal papery white flowers that unravel like crumpled silk. Each flower does not last long, but they come in a continual supply.
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Johnsons Seeds:
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I love pot marigolds in the garden and so do our pollinators. Incredibly easy to grow. Just direct sow anywhere in the sun. You can also use them in brilliant coloured arrangements and eat the flowers in a salad.
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Johnsons Seeds:
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Flowering for spring and much of summer, this azure blue and white mixture is like a shower, more glamorous form of forget me not.
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Beautiful clear blue, cartwheel flowers, absolutely loved by our butterflies and bees. Use to fill sunny gaps in the garden and pick bunches for the house.
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A wonderfully array of beautiful coloured cornflowers, which can be just scattered in to the garden to fill a sunny corner for weeks at a stretch. The bees and butterflies love them and there are endless bunches for the house.
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A great colour mix of deep orange and tangerine flowers in single and semi double forms.
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Elegant bronze- crimson foliage and deep rich, stained glass coloured, single dahlia flowers loved by butterflies and bees.
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One of the most spectacular garden plants and cut flowers you can grow and it’s easy from seed. Cut the flower spikes to the ground immediately after flowering and they will flower again in August September.
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One of the best perennials for pollinators and easy to grow from seed. Echinaceas are also brilliant for picking, with plenty of flowers right into late autumn, which last two weeks in a vase.
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Johnsons Seeds:
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Flowering it’s bright blue socks off right through the summer, this is almost instant colour for your garden and very easy to grow. As with any echium, this is a hive of pollinator bustle.
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A lovely cream foxglove, which makes a beautiful cut flower and garden plant. With plenty of flowers stacked one on top of another, the pollinators hardly need to travel for a fantastic feast.
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One of our native wild flowers which out performs many garden plants. Handsome foliage and flowers for months at a stretch, and jam packed full of nectar all summer long.
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Hollyhocks are indisputably lovely, their towering stems and open saucer flowers, the epitome of a cottage garden. Add to this they are loved by butterflies and bees and no garden should be without them.
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Johnsons Seeds:
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Knautias flower their socks off for five or six months at a stretch. Like scabious they are always busy with pollinators and as perennials they come up again year after year.
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Annual delphiniums which flower longer and harder than the perennial forms. This is one of the best varieties with dense flower spikes in a brilliant range of colours.
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The perennial sweet pea, easy from seed, which flowers right through summer and into autumn. I love it clambering up over a sunny trellis or cladding a garden arch or frame and use this to follow on from spring flowering clematis.
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A beautiful rabbits ear lavender, with much showier, more velvety flowers than the usual English garden forms. It flowers for ages, smells fantastic and is always busy with bees.
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Purple Roman candle fireworks of flowers, which bloom non stop in the garden and last brilliantly in the vase.
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Johnsons Seeds:
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Sarah Raven Wildlife Flowers Lupin Blue Javelin seed
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A cottage garden classic with soft velvety leaves and bright flowers. Bees and butterflies find them irresistable.
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The classic plant to use to edge your vegetable garden paths to draw in the pollinators. It ups your harvest and attracts the good bugs, the ladybirds and lacewings, to help protect against many vegetable garden pests.
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A quick growing annual climber, with cascades of flowers, starting flame red at the tip and fading to cream. These will look spectacular for three to four months, beating most clematis hands down.
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My favourite nasturtium, with the brightest green leaf contrasting strongly to the mixed coloured edible flowers. I love it planted en masse in the vegetable garden under tomatoes, where it helps protect against aphid attack.
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An invaluable seed grown penstemon which flowers non stop from mid summer to winter. The pollinators love it and with it’s stems seared in boiling water, it makes a lovely bunch of flowers.
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A stunning plant, often called the desert bluebell, which is a wild flower of California, where it is widely used on farms and organic vineyards to attract beneficial insects.
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A very popular green manure, which when sown in a block not only benefits the soil when dug in, but looks beautiful and the bees love it. I also use it as a cut flower, which lasts about 5 days in the vase.
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This is one of the best beneficial insect attractants that you can grow. Hover flies love it, and it could not be easier to introduce into your garden.
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