Discover wildflowers
Perennial and biennial wildflowers selected to help wildlife, slow-grown and trialled in my Exeter garden.
Buy seasonally at community markets and events in Exeter.
Wildflowers from my micro nursery in Exeter are carefully grown in small batches, from seed and cuttings. They are suitable for gardens and small to medium spaces.
Available while stocks last between April and October, depending on the variety. Get in touch if I’ve sold out of the variety you would like and I will grow more to order for autumn/spring planting.
£3.50 individual plants in 9cm pots
£7 mix of 5 wildflower seedlings
All plants are grown and supplied in peat-free, pesticide-free compost in plastic-free, biodegradable packaging.
Wildflowers’ delicate beauty means they can blend with other plants or create a meadow effect when planted together, existing happily in your pesticide-free garden space.
Did you know that birdsfoot trefoil is drought tolerant and suitable for a container, while also being the caterpillar food plant of the common blue butterfly and six-spot burnet moth?
Or that a pack of five ‘plug’ (seedling) plants including musk mallow and ox-eye daisy are an achievable way to make a mini meadow effect?
How about shade-tolerant wildflowers like red campion being just as happy at the back of a border as they are in a hedgerow?
Or that you can enjoy the cowslips and primroses you read about or saw as a child in your own garden? (Keep an eye out for the fairies!)
Many perennial wildflowers are happy in conventional flower borders where they don’t have to compete with grasses. They can mix in with other plants or form butterfly-friendly nectar blocks.
Try them in containers, planters, wild patches, mix them in with non-native plants or plant one variety in a block to create a butterfly-friendly nectar station.
Explore the wildflower catalogue
Like to create a small meadow? Learn more here
Wildflowers in gardens
Wildflowers and insects have evolved together, benefitting each other and forming part of our vital web of life, providing us with health benefits, stories and wonder along the way.
Other pollinator-friendly plants can provide nectar, colour, and scent throughout the year but did you know that some wildflowers are the only plants that butterflies and moths will lay eggs on, and that provide nutritious pollen for endangered wild bees?
Butterfly Conservation and other wildlife charities recommend increasing native plants in gardens to provide breeding habitats and help reverse the biodiversity crisis.
Since the 1930s, over 97% of wildflower meadows have been lost but excitingly, we can influence what happens in our own green spaces. Our gardens make up half a million hectares acres across the UK: the equivalent of 70,000 football pitches and a significant chunk of space compared to farmland.
Why wildflowers are important
“Native plants are the basic ingredients which turn your garden into a rich habitat for wildlife.”
— Chris Baines, How to Make a Wildlife Garden, 1985, 2000 Frances Lincoln Ltd