A Selection of Plants that Attract Insects
These are usually sun-loving plants, which will provide food for butterflies, pollen for bees. Encourage natural predators such as ladybirds and hoverflies, who keep the numbers down of less welcome visitors to the garden.
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HELENIUM 'Luc'
Very similar to 'Sahin's Early Flowerer', but darker and bigger flowers from early July. A current favourite.
90cm £5.00
SANGUISORBA tenuifolia 'Stand Up Comedian'
Upright tall stems with white bottlebrush flowers.
2.00m £5.00
CAMPANULA lactiflora 'Prichard's Variety'
Dark violet bellflowers held in trusses through summer. Sun or part shade in moist soil.
AGM 75cm £5.00
SANGUISORBA officinalis 'Martin's Mulberry'
An improvement on 'Arnhem' - more upright, with maroon flowers.
1.80m £5.00
SYMPHYOTRICHUM 'Little Carlow'
Erect stems with large clusters of small blue flowers.
AGM 0.90m - 1.20m £5.00
VERBENA rigida
A neat, low-growing verbena produces clusters of purple or magenta flowers June-September. Lovely with silver-leafed plants in a sunny spot.
AGM 60cm £5.00
SANGUISORBA tenuifolia var. alba
Narrow white drooping bottlebrush flowers more like catkins!
1.80m £5.00
GERANIUM himalayense 'Baby Blue'
A compact free-flowering plant with blue saucer-shaped blooms in early summer.
30cm £5.00
ALCALTHAEA suffrutescens 'Parkrondell'
Deep pink flowers, darker in autumn, from June-November
2.00m £5.00
SANGUISORBA 'Raspberry Coulis'
Our introduction! Warm maroon drumstick flowers over a long season on upright stems.Quite special - this definitely deserved a name.
1.00m £6.50
SYMPHYOTRICHUM novae-angliae 'Dapper Tapper'
Large mauve flowers on a shorter plant, August-October.
50cm £5.00
EUPATORIUM maculatum Atropurpureum Group
Huge clusters of small purple-pink flowers on upright red stems with bright green leaves, July-September. Sun or part shade.
AGM 2.00m £5.00
ROMNEYA coulteri
Tree Poppy. Beautiful papery-white poppy flowers July-Oct, handsome grey-green lobed leaves. Rich soil in a sheltered spot. Mulch in winter.
AGM 1.50m £8.50
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