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Tansy
Perennial Av 1,000 seeds
£1.25 Tanecatum vulgare Flowers July to September Tansy is grown for its long lasting golden yellow flowers on button heads. Used in many insect repelling pot-pourris. A medicinal, culinary and magical herb with the powers of health and longevity. Aromatic herb, habitat river banks, and damp grassland. Useful pest repellent planted amongst vegetables. Add to basket
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| Teasel
Biennial Av 300 seeds £1.25 Dipsacus fullonum Hgt 50 - 200cm Flowers July to August Seed Origin Shropshire. Wild Teasel, excellent architectural plant for attracting wildlife into the garden, rings of rosy-purple flowers on an egg shaped spiny head. Dried flower heads are excellent for flower arranging. Flower heads not suitable for napping. Habitat river banks, waste ground and damp grassland. Add to basket
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Thistle Holy or Thistle Blessed
Annual £1.25 Cnicus benedictus - St Benedict's Thistle, Blessed Thistle, Holy Thistle Herb / Wild Flower. Blessed/Holy thistle was used in the middle ages and wildly cultivated in monastery gardens, was widely used for the plague. Has many medicinal uses and a wide range of applications. Sow spring and summer, grow in full sun. Add to basket
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Marsh Biennial Av 200 seeds £1.25 Cirsium palustre - Marsh Thistle Hgt up to 1.5m Flowers July to August Excellent for attracting wildlife, a bee and butterfly plant. In European countries the young shoots were once used like Burdock. Native habitat marshes, meadows, woodlands and damp soils. Grow in full sun to partial shade in moist soils sow in autumn or spring germination slow. Add to basket
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Thistle Milk Biennial
Av 30 seeds £1.25 Silybum marianum - Milk Thistle, Blessed Milk-Thistle, Kanger, Thistle Lady's Ornamental herb / Wild Flower. Once used as a vegetable, roots, leaves, stems and flower buds used for salads, artichoke and spinach substitute, stema used young raw or cooked used like rhubarb or asparagus. Seed roasted for a coffee substitute. Medicinal has many uses, used for liver and gall bladder complaints. Sow early spring (for annual) in situ or summer to autumn and it will flower following year (biennial). Position in full sun. Add to basket
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Thistle Scotch or Cotton Thistle
Biennial Av 60 seeds £1.25 Onopordum acanthium Flowers July to October. Culinary use the flower buds and young stems are cooked, buds as a artichoke substitute and stems as a substitute for cardoon's. The petals used as a yellow food colouring, the stem hairs used in cushion and pillow stuffing. Tannin and other substances in the leaves are used to treat wounds. Sow in situ in spring or autumn. Grows in full sun to partial shade.
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Woolly Biennial Av
50 seeds £1.25 Cirsium eriophorum - Woolly Thistle Hgt 1.2 m Flowers July to September Habitat roadsides and grassland scrub on calcareous soils. Flowers, stem and leaves are edible. Grow in full sun and moist soil. sow in autumn or spring germination slow.
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or Sea-Pink Perennial
Av 300 seeds £1.25 Armeria martima subsp.martima Hgt 5 - 30cm Flowers April to August Small pink, scented flowers. Low growing, spreading habit mat-forming. Habitat coastal, rocks and on grassland. Add to basket
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Toadflax Common Toadflax
1g pkt £1.25 Linaria Vulgaris Hgt 30-60cm Primrose yellow and orange snapdragon like flower spikes from July to October, known as butter and eggs due to its colouring. An elegant wildflower of meadows, shady edge, hedgerows and cultivated ground. Add to basket
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Toadflax, Ivy-Leaved
Perennial Av 350 seeds
£1.25 Cymbalaria muralis Hgt 5 - 15cm Flowers May to September Single flowers similar to the flowers of a snapdragon, lilac with a yellow pad. Kidney shaped leaves. Once established it sends out long trailing shoots. Habitat Walls, rocks, shingle and stony ground. Add to basket
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Tormentil Perennial Av
175 seeds £1.25 Potentilla erecta - Bloodroot Hgt 10 - 30cm Flowers May to September Single golden yellow flowers on long stems, creeping habit. Tormentil is found in damp grassland, heaths and woods. Medicinal herb. A red dye from the roots has antiseptic properties and root also has tanning properties. Magical powers of love and protection. Grow in full sun to dappled shade. Add to basket
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Travellers Joy Perennial Climber
Av 700 seeds/g Clematis vitalba - Old Mans Beard Hgt up to 10m Flowers July to September Clematis vitalba known as Travellers Joy or Old Mans Beard. Climber for hedges, banks, trees etc. Flowers are fragrant and in clusters, 4 sepals of greenish cream and an abundance of cream stamens.
1 gram pkt £1.25 10 gram pkt £6.90
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Vetch Perennial climber
Av 50 seeds £1.25 Vicia Cracca Flowers Summer One of our most showy native vetches, the flower has one sided spikes of purplish blue flowers. A floppy, scrambling plant that can be trained to grow up a hedge, trellis work or trail, flowers June to August.
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| Valerian
Common Perennial
Av 700 seeds £1.25 Valeriana officinalis - Common Valerian Hgt 40 - 150cm Flowers June to August Av 1,400 seeds/gram Pale pink flowers vanilla scented. Common Valerian is used for insomnia, hysteria it calms the nerves, relieves pain and also known to lower blood pressure. Used for a herbal tea and as a flavouring to sweets and drinks. Magical herb with the powers of protection, sleep, love and purification. Habitat damp grassland, woods, and scrub land. Grow in full sun or partial shade and prefers a moist soil £1.25pkt Av 700 seeds Add to basket £7.95 Bulk 10 gram pkt Add to basket
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Valerian Red Perennial
Av 100 seeds £1.25 Centranthus ruber - Jupiters Beard, Pretty Betsy. Delicate Bess. Ornamental, scented flowers during June to September attractive to butterflies. Young leaves can be used raw or coked as a vegetable, or in salads. Sow February to May in situ and cover lightly. Grow in well drained soil in full sun. Grows well in coastal areas. Add to basket
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| Venus
Looking Glass Annual Av 1,000 seeds
£1.25 Legousia Speculum Veneris Hgt to 50cm, Flowers May to July, a wildflower of old arable cornfields, magenta-purple flowers.
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| Vervain
Perennial Av 2,400 seeds
£1.25 Verbena officinalis Hgt 30 - 60cm Flowers June to September Slender spikes of pale lilac hooded flowers. It has a long history of uses with magic and sorcery with the Celtic and Germanic people of Europe. Used in herbal medicine to treat insomnia, nervous exhaustion, asthma, migraine and depression, used in Chinese medicine and regarded as anti-malarial. Add to basket
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| Violet
see Sweet Violet
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Vipers-Bugloss
Skin irritant Biennial
Av 300 seeds/g Echium vulgare Hgt 30 - 100cm Flowers June to August Bright blue, funnel shaped flowers along the stem. A very elegant wild flower found on dry open ground, grassy areas, cliffs and sand dunes. It was once thought the plant could heal snake bites. Now used as a decorative garden plant and for garnishes for drinks. Av
250 seeds £1.25 10 gram pkt £9.50
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Wallflower Wild
Biennial or Perennial Av 500 seeds £1.25 Cheiranthus cheiri Hgt 20 - 60cm Flowers March to June Richly scented golden yellow flowers. Habitat hedgerows old walls and woodlands. Add to basket
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Water Avens Perennial
£1.25 Geum rivale - Herb Robert, Cure All, Water Flower Flowers May to September. The herb has similar properties to Herb Bennet although weaker. Roots fresh are boiled to produce a chocolate like drink. The root contains tannin and antiseptic substances. Makes a good ground cover plant. Has many medicinal uses. Sow spring or autumn. Grow in moist soil in full sun or well drained soil in partial shade.
0.5g Av 400 seeds
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Water Figwort Perennial
Av 1,000 seeds £1.25 Scrophularia auriculata Hgt up to 70cm Flowers June to September. Habitat damp grassland, meadows and riverbanks grows in full sun to partial shade. Small maroon to purple coloured flowers.
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Mint Perennial
Av 1,000 seeds £1.25 Mentha aquatica Hgt 15- 90cm Flowers July to October Pinkish lilac flowered, strong scented, of the mint family. Herb used for medicinal and culinary uses. Habitat Watersides, marshes, wet woods and rivers. Add to basket
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Water Plantain Perennial
Av 250 seeds £1.25 Alisma plantago-aquatica Hgt 90cm Flowers June to August. Habitat damp ground, ponds and slow running river margins up to 15cm deep. Grows in full sun.
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Weasels Snout Perennial
Av 400 seeds £1.25 Misopates orontium - Lesser Snapdragon Hgt 50cm Flowers June to October. Habitat arable land, cultivated ground and field margins. Deep pink flowers that resemble the snapdragon
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| Weld
Biennial 1 g
Av 3 - 4,000 seeds £1.25 Reseda luteola - Dyers Weld, Dyers Rocket Hgt up to 1.5m Flowers June to August An excellent plant for attracting wildlife, a good quality yellow dye is obtained from the plants and seeds.
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| Welsh Poppy
see Wildflower Poppy Meconopsis cambrica
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Carrot Biennial 5 gram pkt Av 4-5,000
seeds £1.25 Daucus carota Hgt up to 1m Flowers June to September Wild Carrot. Biennial to short lived perennial flowers in second year. Dense umbels of white or creamy white flowers above ferny leaves that give off a scent of carrot when bruised. Aromatic herb that attracts wildlife. Wild Carrot has culinary and medicinal properties, root, flowers and seed have culinary uses.
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| Wild Clary
Perennial Av 400 seeds/gram Salvia verbenaca Hgt 40-60cm Flowers May to August Wild Clary is found on dry pastures and roadsides in Southern England rare elsewhere. Blasphemously called Christ's eye, due to its use as a cleanser and soothes irritation in the eyes. The leaves can be used raw or cooked, a herbal tea can be made from the leaves and snuff from the roots. A good bee plant, well suited to wild flower gardens and cultivated beds. Grows in full sun in light sandy well drained soil. Zone 6, Sow spring inside/under glass plant out during early summer, in areas that are close to the hardiness zone it is best to grow on in the greenhouse for the first year and plant out after last frosts. Av 400 seeds £1.25 Add to basket 10 gram pkt £7.90 Add to basket
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Geranium Wild see Herb Robert
| Woad Biennial 1 gram Av 115 seeds Isatis tinctoria - Dyer's Woad, Dyers-Woad Hgt up to 100cm Flowers June to August Woad was originally used by ancient Britons to paint their bodies. Yellow flowers. It was once cultivated for the blue dye that can be extracted from the leaves. Harvest the leaves when fully grown. Habitat grasslands. Prefers a well drained fertile soil in a sunny site. 1g packet £1.25 Add to basket 10g packet £8.50 Add to basket
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Wood Anemone see Anemone
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Wood Sage Perennial Av
300 seeds
£1.25 Teucrium scorodonia - Sage Leaved Germander, Salva Bastarda, Wild Sage, Woodland Germander, Ambroise. Flowers in July to September, it has a hop scented leaves that have been used for brewing. Medicinal properties include wound healing and preventing infection. Used to soothe coughs and colds. Sow in spring and lightly cover the seed. Grow in a good fertile soil, withstands most garden conditions. Ideal for coastal areas.
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| Yarrow
Perennial Achillea millefolium Hgt 10 - 100cm Flowers June to November Erect flowering stems with white flower heads. Medicinal herb. Habitat dry grassland. A liquid plant feed can be processed from the leaves. Yarrow leaves are used raw or cooked, best used when young, ideal addition in mixed salads. The flowers and leaves are used to make an aromatic tea. Uses medicinal, herbal dyestuffs, aromatic and culinary. Magical herb with the powers of love, courage, exorcism and psychic powers. Sow autumn and spring. Yarrow prefers a well drained site in a sunny position, will tolerate some shade. 1g pkt Av 4,000 seeds £1.25 10 gram pkt £6.90
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Yellow-Rattle or Hay-Rattle
Annual Av 350-370 seeds/gram Rhinanthus minor Hgt 12 - 50cm Flowers May to August Yellow flowers, the name yellow rattle comes from the ripe seeds rattling in the seed capsules. Hemiparasite it lives of minerals and water from the roots of other plants. Habitat grassland. Av 350 seeds
£1.25 10 gram pkt £7.90
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Zigzag Clover Perennial
Av 400 seeds £1.25 Trifolium medium Hgt 25-50cm Flowers May to August Habitat grassland. Deep pink to red flowers turning white to the centre of the flower. Longer, narrower leaves than red clover. Attracts wildlife, being pollinated by bees, moths and butterflies.
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Cultural information for Individual wild flower species
Sowing time all year round with best results sowing either March to early May, or from August to September, for autumn establishment of most species).
Most wild flowers can
easily be sown in one of two ways:
1/ Broadcast directly onto a carefully prepared, weed free seed bed. Germinate
fine seeds on the surface: lightly rake in larger seeds. After sowing the area
should be firmed to ensure the seed comes into contact with the moisture in
the soil. Water with a fine spray to avoid disturbing the surface of the soil.
Keep the area well watered and free from grass and weeds. As the seedlings
grow some thinning out will be necessary, especially with the more vigorous
species. Use the area as a source of plant material by transplanting to other
beds.
2/ Sow into pots or trays of seed compost, place outdoors or in a sunny room.
cold frame or cool greenhouse. Prick out and pot up into potting compost when
large enough to handle. Pot grown plants develop excellent root systems which
enable them to establish rapidly when planted out in their final position at
the end of the growing season.
Special treatment for wild flower seeds
Scarification :- The germination of some seeds is
greatly improved by rubbing the seeds lightly between two sheets of sandpaper.
this enables the moisture in the soil to penetrate the seed coat.
Species that benefit from this treatment are:- Burnet, Salad; Clovers;
Crane's-bills; Liquorice Wild; Medic Black; Melilots; rock Rose; Restharrows;
Trefoils; Vetches and other members of the pea family.
Stratification :- A number of seeds have to be
subjected to a period of cold during winter before germination takes place in
the spring. We can provide the period of cold by adding the seed to damp sand
and putting it in a plastic bag in the fridge for 6-8 weeks. Or sow them in a
cold frame in the autumn.
Species that benefit from this technique are :- Bellflower clustered, Bluebell,
Burnet-Saxifrage, Carrot Wild, Cowslip, Honeysuckle, Lords & Ladies, Mignonette, Ramsons, oxlip,
Primrose, Violets, Weld and all Sedges.
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The cultural information should be used as a
guide only as climatic conditions vary, I have found a number of different
sowing techniques for the same seed from different sources there does not seem
to be a standard. With this in mind you should use this website as a guide only,
you probably already have a tried and tested way of sowing different seeds. As a
rule of thumb the larger the seed size the more cover it requires, and fine seed
requires no cover.
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