A Selection of Plants that Attract Insects
These are usually sun-loving plants, which will provide food for butterflies, pollen for bees. Encourage natural predators such as ladybirds and hoverflies, who keep the numbers down of less welcome visitors to the garden.
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SEDUM 'Mr Goodbud'
Red-tinged, blue-green foliage on reddish stems, topped in late summer with large, magenta-purple flowerheads. Compact, not floppy!
AGM PBR 45cm £5.00
ASTER 'Newstars Fantasy'
A compact variety, smothered with dusky pink-mauve daisies August-October. Sun or part shade.
NEW 40cm £5.00
ROMNEYA coulteri
Tree Poppy. Beautiful papery-white poppy flowers July-Oct, handsome grey-green lobed leaves. Rich soil in a sheltered spot. Mulch in winter.
AGM 1.50m £8.50
ASTER amellus 'Forncett Flourish'
Strong, upright grower with deep mauve daisies from early September.
NEW 60cm £5.00
ASTER 'Diamond Jubilee'
Sn. Tagetes erecta 'Jubilee Diamond'! Sprays of small white daisies late summer. Sun.
90cm £5.00
SYMPHYOTRICHUM 'Nineteen'
Sprays of small lilac daisies September-November, on maroon stems and dark foliage. Sun.
NEW 1.20m £5.00
ERYSIMUM 'Ruston Royal'
A robust perennial wallflower, evergreen, with spikes of two-tone mauve flowers. As big as E. 'Bowles' Mauve but a looser habit. Full sun.
NEW 70cm £5.00
ACTAEA simplex Atropurpurea Group 'Black Negligee'
Lovely near-black foliage, white flower spikes July-September. Shade.
90cm £5.00
GERANIUM 'Mavis Simpson'
Low spreading carpet of silky green leaves, covered with shell-pink flowers all summer. Sunny spot.
AGM 30cm £4.50
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