Perennial Widlflower Seeds
Perennial wildflower seeds form the basis of all permanent wildflower areas, flowering year after year. Use perennial wildflowers to create long lasting flowers for bees and other pollinators. Ideal for sowing on their own or mixed with other species to create your own wildflower mixture, or add your favourite species to our wildflower seed mixes.
- Yellow perennial, flowers May-Oct.
- Essential caterpillar food plant.
A common creeping native wildflower perennial of dry grassland and roadside, with bright yellow flowers, often streaked with red. The cluster of long seed pods looks like a bird's foot. An excellent provider of nectar and a caterpillar food plant for the Common Blue, Dingy Skipper and Clouded yellow butterflies.
- Height: 15 - 25cm
- Flowers: May - October
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
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- White perennial, flowers June-Aug.
- Pleasant, clove-like aroma.
A native perennial wildflower found in grassland and roadside verges, especially on well-drained soils. A pleasant clove-like aroma is emitted from the small white flowers held above waxy grey/green foliage from May to August. A nectar flower plant for butterflies suited to rock gardens and grassy banks.
- Height: 20 - 40cm
- Flowers: June - August
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirem...
Characteristic blue nodding, UK native perennial wildflower commonly found in woods and shady places. Striking flowers that will produce an attractive habitat for butterflies, bees, birds and other wildlife whilst giving off a sweet scent. Seed can take a number of years to flower.
- Height: 30 - 60 cm
- Prefers: Light shade
- Flowers: April - May
- Seeds per gram: 200
- Yellow perennial, flowers June-Sept.
- Star shaped flowers.
Commonly known as church steeples, this nectar-rich wildflower is perfect for adding a golden splash to your garden borders. It has slender tapering spikes of yellow, star-shaped flowers and finely cut leaves.
- Height: 40 - 80cm
- Flowers: June - September
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, neutral
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Seeds per gram: 40
- Purple perennial, flowers June-Sept.
- Member of the thistle family.
Common knapweed or hardheads is a colourful meadow plant of the thistle family. Tight purple flowers, with lance-shaped leaves. Forms dense clumps over time, ideal for sunny meadows and hedgebanks.
- Height: 30 - 60cm
- Flowers: June - September
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Seeds per gram: 500
- Pink perennial, flowers June-Sept.
- Adaptable to most soil types.
Large resilient bushy perennial wildflower plant, favouring sunny open areas. With ivy-shaped leaves, and dark pink flowers. Well placed at the back of borders but adaptable to many diverse habitats.
- Height: 30 - 90cm
- Flowers: June - September
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Seeds per gram: 150
- Pink perennial, flowers May-Aug.
- Common UK meadow flower.
This perennial wildflower is extremely generous and is fantastic at self-seeding. With its reddish-pink flower spikes and arrow-shaped leaves that then turn crimson, Common Sorrel is a basic component of meadows.
- Height: 15 - 60cm
- Flowers: May - August
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Seeds per gram: 2,000
- White perennial, flowers May-June.
- Popular home to pollinating insects.
A tall, native biennial or perennial wildflower, common in hedgerows and roadsides. Also known as "Queen Annes Lace", the fluffy white flowers are the earliest flowering of the common hedge bank parsleys.
- Height: 60 - 120cm
- Flowers: April - June
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Seeds per gram: 200
- Yellow perennial, flowers April-May.
- Low growing and adored by bees.
A very common perennial, found in rich meadows. Creating a golden blaze of colour in May meadows and banks. Flowers composed of bright yellow ray-florets.
- Height: 10 - 45cm
- Flowers: April - May
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Seeds per gram: 8,000
Biennial plant with yellow flowers and purple centre. Likes dry soils and gravelly places, favours calcareous soils. Can grow to over a metre. Perennial. A lovely plant - much admired in our garden. A rosette of leaves throws up a spike of rich yellow flowers with orange anthers, grow in herbaceous border.
- Flowers: June - September
- Requires: Sun and well-drained soil.
- Height: 15- 45cm.
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- White perennial, flowers May-Aug.
- Dainty flowers with a strong scent.
A perennial with fern-like leaves and foamy cream flowers opening from pink buds. Commonly found in woodland verges and damp meadows, this unique wildflower portrays a strong scent to attract a multitude of beneficial pollinators and insects.
- Height: 60 - 90cm
- Flowers: May - August
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Seeds per gram: 850
- Purple perennial, flowers July-Sept.
- Small flowers that are adored by bees.
A tall native perennial with hairy stems found in grasslands across Britain. An individual plant can have as many as 50 purplish-blue flowers on it at a time. It is very attractive to butterflies.
- Height: 30 - 100cm
- Flowers: July - September
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Seeds per gram: 150
Standing tall and leafing the rest behind, the Greater Bird’s-foot Trefoil is a real standout among its siblings. With bigger blooms, a sturdier stem, and glamorous golden, pea-like flowers popping up in cheerful whorls at the tips of its branches, it’s hard to miss. Add in darker foliage and a love of damp soil, and you’ve got a plant that truly knows how to put down roots.
- Height: 30cm
- Red perennial, flowers June-Sept.
- Attractive to insects and pollinators.
A handsome, tall, native perennial wildflower plant which grows in damp meadows and road verges. The blood-red flowers produce abundant nectar to attract insects to aid pollination.
- Height: 45 - 90cm
- Flowers: June - September
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained but moist
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Seeds per gram: 400
- Purple perennial, flowers June-Sept.
- Attractive to pollinating species.
A native perennial, common on dry grassland, roadsides and hedgerows, especially on chalky soils. Reddish purple thistle-like flowers on long stalks are very attractive to butterflies and bees.
- Height: 40 - 90cm
- Flowers: June - September
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Seeds per gram: 130
- White perennial, flowers June-Aug.
- Attractive to butterflies and moths.
A common perennial with tall white spikes of tiny star-like flowers that attract butterflies and moths. It is also a popular larval food source for a number of moth species. This flower is often seen climbing up hedges and shrubs.
- Height: 30 - 60cm
- Flowers: June - August
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, dry
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Seeds per gram: 2,000
- Yellow perennial, flowers May-Oct.
- Food plant for the small blue butterfly.
A scrambling biennial 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: 7 - 15cm
- Flowers: May - October
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, chalky
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Seeds per gram: 350
- Yellow perennial, flowers July-Aug.
- Sweet, honey-like aroma.
Beautiful yellow flowers found in clumps on the sides of country roads. Very common perennial found in sandy soils. Dried seed heads with their recognizable scent are useful for flower arranging. Widely used in days gone by to curdle milk for cheese making.
- Height: 30 - 45cm
- Flowers: July - August
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Seeds per gra...
- Yellow perennial, flowers May-Aug.
- A weakly aromatic wildflower.
Straggling plant, flowers weakly scented, yellow flowers 2cm long, branched tendrils. Fruit a blackish hairless pod to 4cm long. Also known as "Meadow Pea".
- Height: 50 - 100cm
- Flowers: May - August
- Soil Requirement: Wet and moist
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Seeds per gram: 100
- Cream perennial, flowers June-Sept.
- Strong and sweet aroma.
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 - 120cm
- Flowers: June - September
- Soil Requirement: Moist
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Seeds per gram: 1,000
- Pink perennial, flowers July-Sept.
- Attractive to pollinating species.
A stunning pink native perennial found at the sides of roads and in sandy grasslands, a very social flower that grows well alongside other summer flowering wildflowers. It is attractive to both butterflies and bees and produces a faint musky smell during the evening.
- Height: 30 - 90cm
- Flowers: July - September
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Seeds per gram: 500
- White perennial, flowers May-Aug.
- Attractive to pollinators and insects.
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: 30 - 60cm
- Flowers: May - August
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Seeds per gram: 3,000
- Magenta perennial, flowers June-Sept.
- A favourite for foraging bees.
Found along the banks of rivers, streams and ponds or in marshes this tall perennial is striking with its bright magenta flowers. It is a favourite of foraging bees and is the larval food plant of the Small Elephant Hawkmoth.
- Height: 60 - 150cm
- Flowers: June - September
- Soil Requirement: Moist
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Seeds per gram: 13,000
- Pink perennial, flowers May-July.
- Commonly found in damper locations.
The deeply cut pink petals of this native perennial are highly attractive to butterflies and bees. It can be found in damp woodland, meadows and pond edges.
- Height: 30 - 70cm
- Flowers: May - July
- Soil Requirement: Damp
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Seed per gram: 5,400
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