British Wild Flower Plants

04/07/2022

A common sight on Ragwort plants this time of year, the wonderful Cinnabar caterpillar🐛.

These wonderful creatures will quickly devour any ragwort plants in the area before taking shelter and forming their chrysalis🦋

Beautiful and bright coloured through all stages of life🖤♥️

09/04/2022

Just a few of the beautiful wildflowers you’ll find out on your walks at the moment. Primrose, Lesser Celandine, Ground Ivy, and a few cheeky Bluebells who’ve come out slightly early!

20/03/2022

Well…it’s official! Spring is finally upon us!

Step into Spring 2022 with us at www.wildflowers.uk (link in bio👀)

Time to spruce up our gardens with wildflowers 🐝

13/03/2022

Beautiful Primrose taking over verges at the moment, stunning pollinator friendly plant🐝🐝🐝🐝

13/01/2022

Seed tray of Sulphur Clover is looking amazing this year. Ready to be pricked out and out in the greenhouse for spring.

This beautiful plant has green foliage bearing neat clumps of creamy-white flower heads that bees and butterflies love! This plant is becoming rare in the wild due to ploughing arable land, and would make a great addition to anyone’s lawn. We can’t wait for Spring!☘️

24/10/2021

A sea of purple wildflowers.

Taken in spring in our nursery. One of the many benefits of having a wildflower nursery means seeds spread and create their own beautiful meadow.

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17/08/2021

We have selected a range of wildflowers to enhance your garden and attract wildlife.

104 large plug plants for £44.99, which is a saving of £25.

This is perfect for most garden settings and contains a lot of easy grow, low maintenance plants.

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British Wild Flower Plants is the largest grower of native plants in the UK.

10/06/2021

Hover fly enjoying an Oxeye Daisy in the evening sun.

21/05/2021

Solomon’s seal, polygonatum multiflorum. A shade loving perennial. Tubular white flowers in spring, followed by blue-black berries in autumn.

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20/05/2021

Primrose - primula vulgaris
A perennial for shady sides with yellow flowers in February to May. A very valuable food source for moths, pollinated by night-flying insects.

Unfortunately this beautiful plant is becoming rare as our and waysides disappear.

Shop here https://www.wildflowers.uk/primrose-c2x17748875

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18/05/2021

Why “No Mow May”?🌱🤷🏼‍♀️

This month, people have been encouraged not to mow their lawns.

Here’s why:

🐝Cutting your lawn can be harmful for wildlife. Bees, butterflies🦋, moths, frogs🐸 , hedgehogs🦔, toads, newts🦎, insects🐞, dragonflies, damselflies, and birds all thrive off longer grass.

🐝It supports our bees. Not cutting your grass for a month allows smaller plants such as Daisy and White Clover to flower in mass, which in turn, boosts nectar production and allows 10 times the amount of bees to live off them!

🐝Plus, you’ll save yourself the time and energy of walking backwards and forwards with the mower for a whole month! 😉

A recent study by scientists taking part in this “Every Flower Counts” survey (the largest survey of lawns ever) found that 80% of lawns support around 400 bees per day by the nectar produced by flowers.

20% of lawns supported ten times more than this, because they had only been cut once every four weeks.