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 'Red Cauli'
Purple-tinted grey-green foliage, and intense deep red flowers resemble cauliflowers.
AGM 40cm £5.00
HELIANTHUS x kellermanii
Tuberous perennial sunflower, can grow up to 3 metres in one season! Single yellow sunflowers from late September. Doesn't run.
2.50m £5.00
ACHILLEA 'Forncett Ivory'
Lovely ivory flowers, grey-green foliage. The best Achillea I've seen for a while!
60cm £5.00
CLEMATIS recta 'Purpurea'
A huge clump of deep maroon foliage, and masses of scented white flowers all summer. Prefers full sun.
1.50m £6.00
PERSICARIA virginiana var. filiformis 'Compton's Form'
An upright and tidy mound of green leaves marked with a brown V-shape. Masses of small red flowers. Sun or part shade.
1.00m £5.00
GERANIUM 'Blue Sunrise'
Compact growing with bright yellow spring and summer foliage, pale blue flowers.
AGM PBR 45cm £5.00
LIGULARIA dentata 'Osiris Fantasie'
Serrated purple-backed bronze foliage, yellow flowers July-August. Moist soil in part shade.
50cm £5.00
AMMI majus
Indispensable hardy annual, a brilliant filler plant for mid to late summer, as seen this year at Great Dixter! Lacy white cow-parsley flowers and delicate ferny foliage. Well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. 3 for £10!
AGM 1.80m £4.00
SANGUISORBA 'Raspberry Coulis'
Our introduction! Warm maroon drumstick flowers over a long season on upright stems.Quite special - this definitely deserved a name.
1.00m £6.50
KNIPHOFIA 'Alcazar'
Fat spikes of red to yellow flowers on stout stems. Red hot pokers prefer good, well-drained soil in sun, but can tolerate part shade.
1.50m £5.00
GERANIUM 'Mavis Simpson'
Low spreading carpet of silky green leaves, covered with shell-pink flowers all summer. Sunny spot.
AGM 30cm £5.00
SALVIA atrocyanea
Clear blue flowers from late summer on long stems. Looks good at the back of a sunny border.
1.50m £6.50
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