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Campanula, Bats-in-the-Belfry, Nettle-leaved Bellflower, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 266G Found in woods and hedge-banks, usually on clay soils, is this native wild flower, with leafy panicles of broadly bell-shaped, blue-purple flowers in late summer and autumn. It makes an attractive bor...
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Campanula, Clustered Bellflower, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 263J Often found in chalk grassland is this most attractive, easily grown native wild flower, with closely-packed clusters of bright blue-purple, funnel-shaped flowers produced all summer from May through ...
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Campanula, Creeping Bellflower, Rover Bellflower, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 266C This plant is easy to grow - very easy. Still, the number of plants that will take your garden over, yet do it gracefully, are very limited. This is a most attractive plant with its long and charming ...
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Campanula, Greater Bellflower, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 264C Actually a native wild flower, this beautiful perennial can be found growing in the wild as far away as Pakistan and Nepal. It is a handsome thing, a leafy perennial bearing in summer long spikes of l...
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Campanula, Harebell, Scottish Bluebell, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 266D (note, incidentally, that it's "hare" - so called because it was once thought to grow in places frequented by hares and not, as the writer long thought, "hair" because of the plant's slender stalks). ...
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Caper Spurge, Gopher Spurge, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 572D This is a handsome native plant, excellent for the wild garden, with erect stems bearing symmetrically arranged, narrow, blue-green leaves with umbels of tiny, strange, yellowish flowers in summer. Th...
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Carex, Pendulous Sedge, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 273A This is an easily grown, large but very graceful plant well suited for damp and shady areas where little else will grow, bearing in early summer drooping, cat's tail-like, russet-coloured spikes of fl...
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Cheddar Pink, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 452A Although found in other parts of Europe, this beautiful native flower, never common, is now very rare in this country in the wild, being found only in the Cheddar Gorge where its habit of growing on l...
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Chicory, Wild Succory, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 334N Most people only think of Chicory as an adulterant of coffee whereas it is in fact a most attractive native (probably) wild flower with lovely, clear bright blue flowers in summer and early autumn. 1-...
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Common Agrimony, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 64D A most attractive and easily grown native wild flower with toothed pinnate leaves, somewhat grey-downy beneath, and bearing in summer spikes of numerous yellow flowers, each ¼ in. or so across. These ...
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Common Alder, Black Alder, European Alder, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 78B For those wishing to go into the manufacture of clogs, this is the tree for you. Its wood, which incidentally resists decay indefinitely under water, was once widely used for this purpose. It is a sma...
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Common Beech, Copper Beech (EU species), Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 583 One of the most noble of all trees. One little known fact is that in Norway and Sweden sawdust from this tree was once boiled in water, baked and then mixed with flour for use in making bread. (One wo...
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Common Centaury, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 306D (So called because the medical properties of the plant were said to have been discovered by Chiron the centaur!) A native wild flower found on dry, chalky downs, wood margins and the like. It is an er...
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Common Hazel, Cob Nut, Filbert, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 396E Perhaps needing no introduction is this native shrub forming a dense thicket of erect, branching, leafy stems. The attractive, yellow lamb's tail catkins appear in February and, in squirrel-proof gard...
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Common Holly, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 705B Needing absolutely no introduction is this native shrub or small tree except, perhaps, to point out that for our climate there is no more beautiful or useful evergreen. Hardy throughout the British Is...
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Common Hornbeam, European Hornbeam, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 276F Easily grown on both clay or chalky soils, this native tree is particularly attractive when laden with its hop-like fruit clusters. It is, however, perhaps best known as a most useful hedging plant as...
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Common Juniper, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 732G One of our only three native conifers, this well known evergreen shrub varies in its form according to its habitat from a dwarf shrub in exposed surroundings on poor soil to a large bush in happier co...
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Common Mallow, Malva, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 843G Perennial native wild flower with stems covered in long spreading hairs. Pale reddish-purple or blue flowers marked with darker stripes which serve as nectar guides for visiting bees. 1½-3 ft.
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Common Speedwell, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 1274C Another native wild flower found in grasslands and open woods. A very pretty plant, it is a mat-forming species bearing, from spring into summer, spikes of small lilac flowers. 6-8 ins.
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Common Teasel, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds Cat No. 470 We will start by confusing you. In spite of its botanic name – “used by fullers” – this is NOT the Fullers’ Teasel! This plant is a native species found in copses, rough pasture and along stream-banks...
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