Plant Collection: Butterfly Friendly Starter Plants

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£55.50

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Plant Collection: Butterfly Friendly Starter Plants

This well priced starter collection of perennials will attract butterflies (and of course bees) to your garden in summer and early autumn. It consists of 12 plants:
1 Buddleja (3 lt pot)
2 Verbena bonariensis (1.5 lt)
3 Marjoram (9cm)
3 Lavender 'Hidcote' (1.5 lt)
3 Everlasting wall-flower 'Bowles Mauve' (1.5 lt)

All the selected plants are recommended by Butterfly Conservation who also provide some helpful advice on gardening for butterflies (click on the link). These plants are easy for beginners, and will thrive in most well drained soils in full sun or limited shade. Our butterfly collection is unavailable for delivery in winter.

Providing butterflies nectar at this time of year is helpful, but only part of what they require. Not only do they need nectar from the spring onwards, which we will address with a different collection on sale in early spring, but, more importantly, they need sympathetic management of their habitat and food plants for their caterpillars. You can find a number of the most important in our native plant seed and native plant plug sections.

Supplier: RV Roger Ltd.
We donate half of our profit on sales of our butterfly plant collection to Butterfly Conservation

Nectar Plants to Buy for Shade: Comfrey, Cotoneasters, Cranesbills, Foxgloves, Lungwort, Sweet Box
Nectar Plants to Buy for Partial or Full Sun: Barberries, Bergamots, Buddlejas, Catmint, Columbines, Echinacea, Rudbeckia, Cornflowers (perennial), Cranesbills, Escallonia, Evening Primrose, Heathers (Heath), Heathers (Ling), Hebe, Laburnum, Lavenders, Michaelmas Daisies, Mulleins, Japanese Roses, Roses, Rosemary, Sage, Scabious, Sea Holly, Stonecrop, Globe Thistles, Thymes, Valerian, Verbena, Wallflowers (perennial), Wisteria, Yarrow
Nectar Plants to Buy for Winter Flowering: Hellebores, Mahonia, Sweet Box, Witch Hazel


 

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