Perennial Wildflower Seeds
From Autumn Hawkbit all the way through to Wild Foxgloves, our range of English perennial wildflower seeds offers lasting beauty that returns year after year. Perennial wildflowers take a little patience, but they reward you with an evolving display for years to come. All of our perennial wildflower seeds are selected for quality, purity and provenance.
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Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
A Perennial Plant that is also commonly known as 'Eggs and Bacon' or 'Butter and Bacon'. The names that are commonly used for this plant come from the clusters of orange yolk-like flowers and buds which also have a pea-like appearance. The leaves have 5 narrow oval-shaped leaflets.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 15-25cm
- Flowers: May-October.
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands, roadside verges, heathlands
- Also known as: Butter and Eggs, Eggs and Bacon, Hen and Chickens
- Seeds per gram: 600
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
Produces a deep maroon flower head crowned with thistle-like florets of pink and purple, with dashes of a deep reddish-black. Don’t let its prickly appearance fool you- it’s an exceptionally hardy plant, but it has a softer side as a favourite of butterflies and bees!
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-60cm
- Flowers: June-September
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands, forest verges
- Also known as: Bell Weed, Hardhead, Tassel
- Seeds per gram: 500
The mallow is a hearty plant in every sense of the word: it’s able to adapt to a variety of soils and seasons, and bears awfully lovey-dovey heart-shaped pink petals with darker veins. It’s also been prized for its numerous culinary and medicinal uses.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-90cm
- Flowers: June-September
- Best Sown: Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, moist
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Meadows, road verges
- Also known as: Cheese Cakes, Marsh Mallow, Round Dock
- Seeds per gram: 150
A wildflower with a lot of flavour! Spice up the garden with slender spires of small, scarlet blooms, which sometimes grow in a sweeter pink colour. It also bears attractive, oval leaves that taste tart when eaten. Self-seeds freely, so take care while you pepper them around.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 15-60cm
- Flowers: May-August
- Best Sown: Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands, woodlands, verges
- Also known as: Sour Ducks, Vinegar Plant
- Seeds per gram: 2000
A perennial wildflower that grows rapidly during the summer months. Cow Parsley has a hollow stem and grows to be very tall. White umbrella-like flowers that look like lace. Usually found in large clusters on roadside verges, hedgerows and woodland areas.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 60-90cm
- Flowers: April-June
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Hedgerows and woodland edges
- Also known as: Queen Anne's Lace, Lady's Lace
- Seeds per gram: 200
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
One shouldn’t overlook the beaming yellow florets of the dandelion! Some treasure dandelions as a vitamin-rich food source, and they’re a hardy, easy-to-grow flower that’s sure to attract pollinators and bring an extra splash of sunshine to your garden. They’re named from the French word “dent-de-leon,” or “lion’s tooth,” referring to their deeply serrated leaves.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 10-45cm
- Flowers: April-May
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Meadows, road verges, fields
- Also known as: Bitterwort, Clock Flower, Lion’s Tooth
- Seeds per gram: 8000
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
The dark mullein is a flower with a lot of layers to its beauty, producing spikes of buttery yellow, five-petalled flowers that are rather cheery, but crowned with sophisticated wine-red stamens, all of it wreathed in hairy green foliage. A plant with a peculiar palette that’s sure to be striking in any arrangement.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 15-45cm
- Flowers: June-September
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Road verges, hedgerows
- Also known as: Black-Rooted Mullein, Tall Mullein
- Seeds per gram: 11000
The Evening Primrose’s fragrant bell-shaped flowers are welcome in any garden, and grow in shades of yellow, pink and white on tall stems. They’re easy to grow in any soil for those who want a beautiful bloom to light up the summer evenings.
- Type: Biennial
- Height: 100-150cm
- Flowers: June-October
- Best Sown: Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, sandy
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Roadside verges, meadows
- Also known as: Cure-All, Four O’Clock, German Rambion
- Seeds per gram: 2250
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
Great Mullein features tall spires wrapped in soft, silvery leaves, topped with clusters of pale-gold flowers. Famous for its velvety texture, it has a long history of use and is a favourite of bees and butterflies, some bees even use its fine hairs for nesting. A wildlife-friendly plant that brings a bright, distinctive touch to the back of borders.
- Type: Biennial
- Height: 100-180cm.
- Flowers: July-September
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Woodland margins, clearings, waste grounds
- Also known as: Aaron’s Rod, Feltwort, Velvet Plant
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
A sharp and showy-looking flower, blooming into starburst-shaped, thistle-like magenta florets. The Greater Knapweed is hardy and tall-growing- grow it alone to let its brambly beauty shine forth and attract plenty of butterflies, or contrast it with softer-shaped wildflowers, like the ox-eye daisy.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 40-90cm
- Flowers: June-September
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands, cliff-sides
- Also known as: Black Top
- Seeds per gram: 130
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
A hardy perennial with small, white starry flowers, best clambering up hedges or shrubs. Sweetly scented, Hedge Bedstraw will attract pollinators and beneficial insects and is commonly found on dry, grassy hedgebanks and grassland.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-60cm
- Flowers: July-September
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, dry
- Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Grassland, meadows
- Also known as: False Babies Breath
- Seeds per gram: 2000
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
Produces fiery, technicolour pom-poms in an array of colours from buttery yellow to rich red, tinting clover-like, wooly white calyces. It has a long flowering period, making it a brilliant bloom to brighten beds all summer long.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 7-15cm
- Flowers: May-October
- Best Sown: Autumn
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, chalky
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands, verges, coastal areas
- Also known as: Devil’s Claws, Mary’s Fingers, Woundwort
- Seeds per gram: 350
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
Much like its odd title, the ‘Lady’s Bedstraw’ carries riches in a rough-and-tumble manner, bearing vast whorls and clusters of tiny golden flowers. It also boasts a distinct and sweet scent, even when dried. A hardy, sprawling plant that’s sure to make a fine bed for a wild garden.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 15-30cm
- Flowers: June-September
- Best Sown: Autumn
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Grassy meadows, road verges, clifftops and hills
- Also known as: Maiden’s Hair, Fenwort, Cheese Rennet
- Seeds per gram: 1600
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
This Perennial plant is a part of the Clover and Pea family. A Scrambling plant that is seen through grassy areas. yellow flowers with a pea- like appearance. The plant has a weak aroma. The leaves consist of a single pair of leaflets with tendrils. Fruit a blackish hairless pod to 4cm long.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 50-100cm
- Flowers: May-August
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Wet and moist
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Meadows, woodland edges, shrubs
- Also known as: Meadow Pea
- Seeds per gram: 100
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
Watch out! This chaotic-sounding, robust and hardy marsh flower may just flood your pond-side with plumes of pretty pink and purple petals, which just so happen to be perfect plants for pollinators.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 60-120cm
- Flowers: June-September
- Best Sown: Spring
- Soil Requirement: Moist
- Light Requirement: Full sun and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Marshes, riverbanks, fens
- Also known as: Black Blood, Rainbow Weed, Red Sally
- Seeds per gram: 13600
Perennial. A bushy meadow plant with cone-shaped spikes Aromatic perennial with masses dark purple buds turning to paler flowers. A good butterfly plant.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 40–50cm.
- Flowers: July-September
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, chalky
- Light Requirement: Full Sun
- Natural Habitat: Meadows, Foot Paths
- Also known as: Esparsette, French Grass, Holy Clover
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
A smaller species of burnet, bearing clumps of miniature, round red flowers, followed by a harvest of burred fruit. Its main appeal is its leaves, which smell like cucumber when crushed and are sometimes used for flavouring.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 20-50cm
- Flowers: May-August
- Best Sown: Autumn
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Chalky grasslands
- Also known as: Garden Burnet, Pimpernelle, Toper’s Plant
- Seeds per gram: 300
A smaller breed of sorrel, bearing tiny flowers in red and pink. Its colours add a lot of flavour to the garden, and its leaves can be used as flavourings in food. Self-seeding.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 7-25cm
- Flowers: May-August
- Best Sown: Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained, acidic
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Grasslands, woodlands, verges
- Also known as: Sour Weed
- Seeds per gram: 2500
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
With pearly-white petals surrounding soft cream florets, this strongly scented plant is both eye-catching and practical. Its leaves help repel harmful insects while remaining pollinator-friendly, and it’s also valued in herbal remedies.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 25-50cm.
- Flowers: July-September
- Soil Requirement: Moist but well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun or partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Marshes, water margins
- Also known as: Ball Of Snow, Goosetongue, Seven Years’ Love
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
These showy spires of violet and royal blue have an airy quality that lives up to their alternate name, ‘Bird Vetch’, with its tube-shaped blooms and long, oval-shaped tendrils both appearing quite feathery. It’s quite a climber, and thrives the most when planted with other tall flora to support it. Sports the same, familiar seed pods as others in the pea family, but when ripe, they turn deep black!
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 60-120cm
- Flowers: June-August
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Hedgerows, river banks, woodlands
- Also known as: Bird Vetch, Canada Pea, Tine Grass
- Seeds per gram: 100
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
Named after its serpentine appearance, bearing a long, speckled stem, not only bearing thin, pale thorns to watch out for, but spikes of azure flower heads and long red stamens, like a snake’s head preparing to strike. Have trust in them, though, and they’ll provide you with beautiful border blooms that are actually a favourite of bees and butterflies!
- Type: Biennial
- Height: 25-75cm
- Flowers: June-September
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Grassland, coastal, heathland
- Also known as: Blue Devil, Cat’s Tail, Snake Flower
- Seeds per gram: 230
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
A pure white, five petalled perennial. At night, it produces a clovey scent to attract pollinators. They have a delicate beauty of their own, but they can hybridise when planted alongside red campion to create precious pink and white beauties.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-60cm
- Flowers: May-October
- Best Sown: Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Roadside verges, hedgerows
- Also known as: Bull Rattle, White Cockle, White Robin
- Seeds per gram: 800
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
A wild perennial herb relative of chives, Wild Garlic (or Ramsons) grow in damp woods, hedges and on shady banks, where its garlicky aroma fills the air. The leaves of this herb are in fact very commonly found in salads or used to flavour meat dishes and sauces. Excellent plant for ground cover in a wet corner of the garden.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-80cm
- Flowers: April-June
- Best Sown: Autumn or Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full and partial shade
- Natural Habitat: Woodland, hedgerows
- Also known as: Ramson, Broad-leaved Garlic, Bear's Garlic
- Seeds per gram: 180
Plants for Pollinators highlights plants selected by the RHS as scientifically proven to tackle the declines in bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
An aromatic perennial with masses of dark purple buds that turn into paler flowers. The leaves are an oval shape and can be found in opposite pairs on the Squarish, red tinted stem. A very attractive pollinating plant.
- Type: Perennial
- Height: 30-60cm
- Flowers: July-September
- Best Sown: Spring
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained
- Light Requirement: Full sun
- Natural Habitat: Chalk limestone grassland. road verges, hedge banks
- Also known as: Cooking herb Oregano
- Seeds per gram: 10000
Perennial Wildflower Seeds FAQs
What are perennial wildflowers? Do they come back every year?
Perennial wildflowers are a type of wildflower that bloom for more than one year from the same root system. Dying back in winter and reblooming in spring. They typically require less maintenance than annuals.
When is the best time to sow perennial wildflower seeds?
The best time to sow perennial wildflowers is early spring or autumn, check the specific sowing recommendations for the wildflower you are sowing. However, usually sowing in spring allows the wildflowers to establish themselves during the warmer months, while autumn sowing mimics the natural seed lifecycle and can lead to better germination the following spring.
Are perennial wildflowers good for pollinators?
Yes, perennial wildflowers can provide a valuable food source for pollinators throughout the growing season. Not only do they add a lovely pop of colour to your garden, they are great for bees, butterflies and other pollinators.
Do perennial wildflowers spread naturally?
Perennial wildflowers can spread naturally through their roots and self seeding. Over time this often creates the desired meadow appearance. However, to prevent spreading you can create physical barriers to stop roots spreading and regular deadheading to stop seeds from spreading.
Are perennial wildflowers low maintenance?
Once perennial wildflowers have established themselves they are relatively low maintenance. They may require some cutting back and deadheading to keep the area tidy, however, unless unseasonably dry they will require little watering and fertilising.
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