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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LAVANDULA angustifolia 'Hidcote'
A neat compact lavender with deep violet-blue flowers.
AGM 45cm £5.00
SANGUISORBA obtusa 'Chatto'
A compact grower, forms a low mound of silver leaves and spikes of white bottlebrush flowers in summer.
45cm £5.00
SEDUM 'Mr Goodbud'
Red-tinged, blue-green foliage on reddish stems, topped in late summer with large, magenta-purple flowerheads. Compact, not floppy!
AGM PBR 45cm £5.00
ECHINACEA SOMBRERO FLAMENCO ORANGE
Bright orange-red flowers on sturdy stems, July-September.
PBR 60cm £7.00
SALVIA microphylla 'Wild Watermelon'
Magenta-pink flowers with a white throat, May-November. Sun.
75cm £5.00
PIMPINELLA major 'Rosea'
Feathery foliage topped with umbels of soft lacy pink flowers in summer. Sun or shade.
50cm £5.00
CLEMATIS recta 'Purpurea'
A huge clump of deep maroon foliage, and masses of scented white flowers all summer. Prefers full sun.
1.50m £6.00
AGASTACHE 'Blue Boa'
New form, with chunky, deep violet-blue flower spikes July-October. Seems to be long-lived! Sun.
PBR 60cm £5.50
HELIANTHUS x kellermanii
Tuberous perennial sunflower, can grow up to 3 metres in one season! Single yellow sunflowers from late September. Doesn't run.
2.50m £5.00
CIRSIUM rivulare 'Trevor's Felley Find’
Another great plant from Trevor Edwards, also called ‘Trevor’s Blue Wonder’, a fabulous tall ornamental thistle with rich blue-purple flowerheads on silver-purple stems mid-late summer. Full sun in rich soil.
PBR 1.20m £6.50
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