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Oenothera, Evening Primrose, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 912B
Of the several species of Oenothera bearing this English name, this introduced and widespread (although apparently decreasing), naturalised wild flower is perhaps the archetypal one. It is an erect, r...
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Orange Hawkweed, Fox and Cubs, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 689J
The brilliant coppery-orange red of these flowers is the main reason for including this wild flower (actually a garden escape but now found growing wild in many places). It is a shade not found on man...
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Oxlip, Paigle, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 1037B
When we wrote our remarks about the Cowslip and Primrose, we overlooked the beautiful Oxlip, the third in this group of exquisite, spring flowering wild flowers. We now make amends and are delighted t...
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Pasque Flower, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 1075B
Now a very rare native species, this is a plant of exceptional beauty. With much divided, silky foliage, it bears in April and May lovely, violet-purple flowers. 4-12 ins.
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Policeman's Helmet, Jumping Jack, Indian Balsam, Touch-Me-Nots, Ornamental Jewelweed, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 706F
If you want to fall out with your neighbours, this is the plant to grow! For if ever a species earned the name Impatiens (= impatient), this is it when ripe, the slightest touch of the seed capsules m...
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Primrose, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 1046B
A lovely plant and our comments on the Cowslip apply equally here. Once again, no garden should be without at least a few tucked in an odd corner to serve as a harbinger of spring. Here again, we offe...
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Quaking grass, Doddering Dillies, Wildflower of the British Isles, Ornamental Grass seeds
Cat No. 215A
With a name like that, you just really don't have to worry what kind of plant you have, suffice it for you to say to your neighbours "Do come and see my Doddering Dillies!" In fact, it's a most attrac...
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Queen Anne's Lace, Wild Carrot, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 437R
Yes, indeed the parent of your ever-popular veg. - if it weren't, it would be far more popular as an ornamental garden plant because the dense umbels of white flowers (well, actually, the inner floret...
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Ragged Robin, Cuckoo Flower, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 829P
A native wild flower found in damp meadows and woods throughout the British Isles. It is a most graceful plant with slender stems, bearing during the summer open sprays of charming, rose-red flowers, ...
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Ramsons Wood Garlic, Allium, Bear's Garlic, Hog's Garlic, Gipsy Garlic, Ornamental Onion, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 76D
Native wild flower growing in damp woods and shady places, and bearing in spring loose umbels of up to 20 pretty, white, star-like flowers. A useful plant for naturalizing in woods and the like which,...
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Red Campion, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 862K
A favourite haunt of long-tongued bumble bees, this must be one of our loveliest wild-flowers. Its bright rose-red blooms, with their deeply divided (bifid) petals, are most freely produced in May an...
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Red Clover, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 1254G
Like T.repens, this is a familiar and attractive native wild flower, a more or less erect plant with trifoliate leaves marked with a white crescent, and pale rose-pink flowers all summer. Up to 2 ft.
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Red Valerian, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 741B
Naturalised in many parts of Britain, this is a splendid, free flowering plant for the border, or along a hedge where little else will grow. The spikes of pink or white, very sweet-scented flowers are...
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Rock Rose, Sun Rose, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 671
Dwarf, evergreen, shrubby plant with lovely white, cream, pink, rose and red flowers in June and July. Does best in a dry and sunny position. 1 ft.
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Rose of Sharon, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 698C
Very beautiful with its large golden flowers, 3 ins. or more across, produced all summer very vigorous growing almost anywhere, even under the shade of large trees very hardy what more could one ask o...
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Rose Root, Midsummer Men, , Wildflower of the British Isles, Sedum seeds
Cat No. 1156F
(So called because the plant was once used - quite how we don't know - by girls on Midsummer Eve to divine whether their lovers were true!) An interesting and attractive, uncommon native wild flower f...
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Round-headed Leek, Allium, Ornamental Onion, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 76E
Found in several areas in Europe and in a very few places in the British Isles is this attractive species, easily grown in full sun, bearing in summer dense, round heads of reddish-purple, bell-shaped...
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Sainfoin, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 918D
This is a most attractive English wild flower (you can find it on chalk grassland in the south of England) with pinnate leaves and dense spikes of pretty pink flowers with darker veins.
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Scarlet Pimpernel, Poor Man's Weather Glass, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 87D
With its pretty, slender-stemmed, scarlet (or rarely blue or lilac) flowers, this is one of those plants that really needs no introduction. 2-12 ins.
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Sea Kale, Wildflower of the British Isles seeds
Cat No. 406D
Once a fairly common plant to be found growing on sand and shingle around the coasts of these Islands, it has now become a good deal rarer thanks to the demand for its young, white stems as an Asparag...
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