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Corn Marigold, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 345A
A native wild flower, a quick-growing annual with coarsely cut and toothed, glaucous foliage, and bearing most of the summer golden-yellow flowers, each up to 2½ ins. across. 8-20 ins.
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Cornflower, Bluebottle, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 304A
This well known wild flower, with its cottony foliage and beautiful blue flowers, was once common throughout Great Britain, often as a cornfield weed, but is now rare mainly because of the greater car...
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Price: £1.60 |
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Cotton Thistles, Scottish Thistle, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 918E
For readers north of the border, this is (said to be) your actual Scottish Thistle as selected by James V, a splendid biennnial plant with large prickly leaves covered with long, silvery-white, web-li...
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Price: £1.86 |
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Cow Parsley, Keck, Ladies Ann Lace, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 107H
The plant/flowers you know well (but be sure it’s Cow Parsley you pick, not, for example, Hemlock!), but we thought we’d pop it here just to let you know some of its almost totally overlooked culinary...
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Cowslip, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 1046A
This, which along with the Primrose, must be one of our loveliest wild flowers, will surely need no introduction. Few plants, apart, of course, from the Primrose, have suffered so much from the ravage...
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Cranesbill, Herb Robert, Wildflower of the British Isles, Garden Geranium seeds
Cat No. 624P
A native wild flower, sometimes an annual plant but usually a biennial, in the first year forming rather dense rosettes of most attractive, much-divided leaves with stems often conspicuously deep red ...
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Creeping Thyme, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 1244A
This is an ideal plant for paved areas, forming a mat of delightfully aromatic, bright green foliage, and bearing in summer a profusion of pinkish-purple flowers. 1-3 ins.
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Daisy, True Wild Form, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 192D
This charming - and let's be honest, charming it certainly is - native wild flower must be known by virtually the entire population. It perhaps only needs to be pointed out that, although at their bes...
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Price: £1.68 |
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Daphne, Mezereon, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 435D
With little if anything in the garden except gloom and perhaps a few Crocuses, the appearance in February of the deliciously fragrant, lilac-pink flowers on this much beloved shrub is particularly wel...
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Dark Mullein, Candlewick Plant, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 1273P
This is a most attractive and generous native perennial (well, more or less - if it takes a dislike to you, it may pass into oblivion after its first flowering) plant producing from early summer into ...
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Price: £2.00 |
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Devil's-bit Scabious, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 1147E
Like the small Scabious, this is another native wild flower beloved of bees and butterflies, with mauve to dark blue-purple flowers. 1-2½ ft.
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Dog Rose, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 1118F
A very well known, very variable, native species, a prickly shrub with fragrant pink or white flowers followed by bright red hips. 6-10 ft.
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Price: £1.66 |
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Dyer's Greenweed, Waxen Woad, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 615C
With its long, leafy spikes of bright yellow flowers borne from June to September, this native shrub, long used as a yellow dye, is a useful and attractive addition to just about any garden. 1-3 ft.
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Price: £1.78 |
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Dyer's Rocket, Weld, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 1086N
A native wild flower with narrow, lance-shaped leaves and long, slender spikes of yellowish flowers. It was once much cultivated for the dye, flavone, used to colour textiles yellow. 1½-5 ft.
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Elecampane, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 711D
This is a robust and rather splendid introduced wild flower with large, wrinkled, basal leaves, bearing in summer large, distinctive, bright yellow flowers up to 3 ins. or more across and described in...
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Price: £1.74 |
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Everlasting Pea, Perennial Sweet Pea, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 763
A hardy perennial excellent for covering slopes, embankments and buildings. Covered with masses of red, rose and white flowers in summer. Hardy throughout the British Isles.
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Field Maple, Hedge Maple, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 24B
Our only true native Acer species is this most attractive medium sized, round-headed tree with smallish, five-lobed, typical Maple leaves. Frequently used in country hedgerows. Hardy throughout the Br...
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Field Poppy, Flanders Poppy, Red Corn Poppy, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 951A
With its brilliant scarlet flowers, usually with a black blob at the base of the petals, this native wild flower needs no introduction. However, one point worth mentioning is that, if after cutting, t...
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Price: £1.52 |
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Field Scabious, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 744D
A native wild flower found in dry grassy fields a lovely perennial, often flowering the first year, with somewhat bristly foliage, and bearing all summer bluish-lilac, Scabious-like flowers. The plant...
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Forking Larkspur, True Wild Form, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 440C
Not truly native but an introduced wild flower, now found but rarely actually in the wild. In its wild form it is a delightful plant with slender, erect stems, bearing in summer racemes of graceful, b...
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