Wildflowers for a
'shady meadow'
Wildflower Plug Plant Collection
This wonderful collection of 13 varieties of wild plug plants for shady areas will arrive in a tray of 104 plants. This will cover an area of approximately 21m², planting 5 plants per 1m².
The plugs are young plants, not seedlings, and cost just over 64 pence each. Each individual plug's root volume is approximately 55cc, with a diameter of 36mm and a depth of 60mm. The top growth will depend on the variety and the time of year.
Below is what you can expect in your collection, depending on availability.
- Wild strawberry, Fragaria vesca - 10-15cm spreading perennial with white flowers
- Hedge bedstraw, Galium mollugo - trailing with minute white flowers
- Hedgerow cransbill, Geranium pyrenaicum - 25-60cm tall with magenta blooms
- Lesser celandine, Ranunculus ficaria - 10cm tall with bright yellow buttercup flowers
- Betony, Stachys officinalis - 30cm tall with magenta flowers
- Dog violet, Viola riviniana - 20cm tall with blue-purple blooms
- Nettle-leaved bellflower, Campanula trachelium - 30-45cm tall with dark blue flowers
- Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea - 100-200cm tall with spires of purple red blooms
- Primrose, Primula vulgaris - the herald of spring!
- Selfheal, Prunella vulgaris - 10-30cm tall with red-purple blooms in May-June
- Red campion, Silene dioica - 30-45cm tall with pink-red blooms
- Greater stitchwort, Stellaria holostea - scrambling, slender stems and star-like flowers
- Tufted vetch, Vicia cracca - clambering perennial with blue-violet flowers
- Oxeye daisy, Leucanthemum vulgare - 30-45cm white 'moon' daisy
- Great burnet saxifrage, Pimpinella major - 50-100cm tall with umbels of pinkish-white flowers
- Wood avens, Geum urbanum - 30cm tall with yellow flowers in May
- Oxlip, Primula elatior - 15-20cm tall with pale yellow flowers
- Wood sage, Teucrium scorodonia - 30cm tall with greenish-yellow blooms
- Meadowsweet, Filipendula ulmaria - 60-100cm tall with cream flowers
- Wood cranesbill, Geranium sylvaticum - 30-60cm with purple-magenta flowers
- Figwort, Scrophularia nodosa - 30-60cm tall with tiny maroon and green flowers
Plug planting tool
