Butterfly and Bee Friendly Plug Plants

If you are trying to encourage bees the Bee wildflower plant collection is the one your looking for. This plug plant collection contains a minimum of 10 species available from our range and provide an excellent food source for bees.

• A minimum of 10 species will be chosen from the species list and used in equal quantities.
• Excellent food source. 

This selection of plants will attract butterflies into your garden, you'll receive a minimum of 10 species of plugs plants from the list. Your collection will capture the small purple flowers of Field scabious to the light scent of Musk mallow.

• A minimum of 10 species will be chosen from the species list and used in equal quantities.
• Designed to attract butterflies into your garden. 

• Commonly found in chalky meadows.
• Lilac perennial, blooms July-Aug.

In summer butterflies and bees flock to the small mauve button-like flowers of this perennial. It can be found on very poor, dry, chalky soils throughout Britain. It has finely divided leaves, which are said to resemble the foot of a bird.

• Height: 15 – 70cm
• Requires: Dry, free-draining poor soils
• Flowers: July - August

• Dandelion-like flowers.
• Yellow perennial, blooms July-Sept.

A perennial Wildflower plug plant with dandelion-like flowers and seed heads. A good showy meadow subject. The seeds are a magnet for Finches.

• Height: 15 - 50cm
• Flowers: July - September
• Soil Requirement: Moist
• Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade 

• Flourishes in direct sunlight.
• Pink perennial, blooms June-Sept.

Common mallow is a very ornate, tough plant with an abundance of pink/purple flowers. To get the best from this pretty plant place in full sun and in well-draining soils. 

• Height: 30 - 90cm
• Flowers: June - September
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun

• Attractive to pollinating species.
• Yellow perennial, blooms June-Sept.

The Common agrimony plug plant is known as church steeples, good for a sunny border. It has slender tapering spikes of yellow, star-shaped flowers and finely cut leaves. As well as luring pollinators, wild birds struggle to resist! 

• Height: 40 - 80cm
• Flowers: June - September
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained, neutral
• Light Requirement: Full sun

• Popular pollinator for bees.
• Pink perennial, blooms June-Sept.

A native biennial is occasionally perennial, common in woodland leering, hedgerows and heaths. The Foxglove wildflower plant has tall spikes of pinkish-purple bell-shaped wildflowers. The wildflowers are pollinated by bumblebees.  

• Height: 50 -150cm (20-60in)
• Requires: Partial shade or sun on moist well-drained soil
• Flowers: June - September

Our ready-to-plant wildflower plug plants offer ...

• Common on banks and roadsides.
• Yellow perennial, blooms May-Sept.

This perennial plug plant makes a good meadow component with its rich yellow flowers and dandelion-like seed heads.

• Height: 30 - 45cm
• Flowers: May - September
• Soil Requirement: Well-drained
• Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade

• Great source of food for wild birds.
• Purple biennial, blooms July-Aug.

A native biennial is found on rough grassland, roadsides and wastelands. In the first season, it produces a rosette of sharp spikey leaves. In the second year, it puts up a tall stem crowned with a spiny flower head with a band of mauve flowers. It is particularly attractive to insects and seed-eating birds such as Goldfinches and Siskins. 

• Height: 80 - 200cm
• Requires: Full sun or partial sha...

• Most common on chalky soil.
• Purple perennial, blooms July-Sept.

A native perennial wildflower plant, common on dry grassland, roadsides and hedgerows, especially on chalky soils. Reddish purple thistle-like flowers on long stalks are produced from July to September.

• Height: 30 - 90cm (8-36in)
• Requires: Full sun on well-drained soil
• Flowers: July - September

• Source of nectar for pollinators.
• Yellow perennial, blooms April-May.

A beautiful native perennial wildflower plant growing in grassland and meadows. The deep yellow flowers are grouped on upright stalks growing from rosettes of crinkled leaves. Cowslip wildflower plants are a good nectar source for butterflies and bees. Cowslips are the food plants of the caterpillars of the Duke of Burgundy Fritillary.

• Height: 10 - 30cm
• Requires: Dry grassland & scrubland
• Flo...

• Commonly found in damper areas.
• Yellow perennial, blooms May-Aug.

An invasive buttercup found in damp places on grassland, along woodland and field edges with its yellow flowers about 2cm across and hairy leaves which are divided into three lobes with rough edges. This bright, golden-cupped flower is a childhood favourite: if a yellow reflection appears when it is held up to the chin, it is considered as a sign that the person likes butter.

• Height: up to 50cm...

• Common component in meadows.
• Yellow perennial, blooms April-May.

Dandelion is a perennial, a golden blaze in the May meadows and banks. Basal rosettes of leaves deeply lobed or toothed (dent de lion), flowers are composed of bright yellow ray - florets.

• Height: upto 35cm
• Requires: Well-drained
• Flowers: April - May

• Attractive to bees and butterflies.
• Purple perennial, blooms June-Oct.

A tall native perennial common throughout Britain in marshes, meadows, roadsides and damp woods. Mauve to purple wildflower heads on slender stems from June to October attracts bees and butterflies. These are the food caterpillars of the Marsh Fritillary.

• Height: 15 -100cm (6-40in)
• Requires: Full sun on moist soils
• Flowers: June - October

• Common in wetland areas.
• Yellow perennial, blooms Aug-Sept.

Fleabane is a native perennial wildflower plant common in marshes, ditches and wet meadows. Rare in Scotland. It is an upright woolly wildflower plant with clusters of gold flowers during August and September.

• Height: 25 - 60cm (10in - 2ft)
• Requires: Moist soils, sun
• Flowers: August - September

The selection of Flowering lawn wildflower plants that you will receive in this collection contain a variety of species which can tolerate close mowing down to a height of 5cm. This collection is ideal to be included in flowering lawns or road verges. 
 

• A minimum of 10 species will be chosen from the species list and used in equal quantities.
• Can be mown down to 5cm. 

• Very appealing to birds.
• Yellow perennial, blooms May-July.

A perennial with yellow dandelion flowers followed by impressive seed heads, that bloom in the early morning sun but shy away after midday. This plant grows nearly a meter tall and is attractive to birds.

• Height: 30 - 90cm
• Requires: Sun
• Flowers: May - July

This collection of plugs have been designed to flourish in full sun and in partial shade. You will receive 10 specie of wildflowers plugs that will succeed regardless of where you position, these plants will grow with fragmented sunlight either side of your hedge. 

• A minimum of 10 species will be chosen from the species list and used in equal quantities.
• Suitable for sun and partial shade. 

• Unusual, yellow woolly flowers.
• Yellow biennial, blooms May-Sept.

A scrambling biennial wildflower is found in dry grassland often by the sea. The unusual yellow woolly flowers attract a multitude of butterflies and bees and it is the larval food plant for the Small Blue Butterfly.

• Height: 30-60cm
• Requires: Full sun on light soils
• Flowers: May to September

The Long Season Meadow plug plant collection is suitable for a wide range of soil types. Once this collection is established it will provide an assortment of wildflowers carefully selected to provide flowers for the whole season. 

• A minimum of 10 species will be chosen from the species list and used in equal quantities.
• Suitable for a wide range of soil types. 

• Commonly found in meadows.
• Yellow perennial, blooms May-Aug.

The most majestic of the three common Buttercup species native to Britain. Its pale yellow flowers are a familiar sight in traditional meadows and grasslands on damp soils. There is a species of Solitary Bee, which uses the flowers to sleep in.

• Height: 30 - 90cm
• Requires: Full sun on damper soils but can tolerate some dryness.
• Flower: May-August  

• A sweet scent, often used as flavouring.
• Cream perennial, blooms June-Aug.

A common tall perennial found in damp meadows, ditches and river banks. Its fluffy cream flowers have a strong, heady, sweet aroma. In medieval times the plant was crushed and used as a pain relief as the chemicals it contains are similar to aspirin.

• Height: 60 – 150cm
• Requires: Sun or partial shade on damp or wet soils
• Flower: June - August

• Tall, bell-shaped flowers.
• Lilac perennial, blooms July-Sept.

A tall, unbranched native perennial common across England. It is a plant of hedgerows and woodlands, also known as Bats in the Belfry due to the stamens looking like bats hanging the bell of a church steeple. This beautiful plant flourishes with bell-shaped flowers that are lilac in colour. 

• Height: 50 - 100cm
• Requires: Partial shade on moist soils
• Flowers: July - September

• A firm favourite to attract pollinators.
• White perennial, blooms June-Aug.

Often seen carpeting road verges and railway embankments with white and gold blooms. This common native perennial is also known as Moon Daisy or Dog Daisy and attracts butterflies, bees and other insects.

• Height: 20 – 70cm
• Requires: Full sun on most soil types
• Flowers: June - August