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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ASTER 'Kylie'
A novae-angliae x ericoides cross. Fine foliage and masses of rose-pink daisies summer and autumn. Sun.
AGM 75cm £5.00
ACHILLEA filipendula 'Gold Plate'
Large, flat golden flowerheads. An old favourite. Full sun, drought tolerant.
AGM 1.20m £4.50
SYMPHYOTRICHUM novae-angliae 'Harrington's Pink'
Clusters of bright pink flowers. Popular at the nursery.
AGM 1.50m £5.00
LEUCANTHEMUM x superbum 'Elworthy Sparkler'
Buttercream buds open to single white daisies. It really does sparkle!
75cm £5.00
SYMPHYOTRICHUM novae-angliae 'Colwall Constellation'
Later-flowering heather-purple daisies from late October.
1.50m £5.00
COREOPSIS verticillata 'Moonbeam'
Bushy perennial with fine foliage and lemon-yellow daisy-like flowers.
AGM 45cm £5.00
SYMPHYOTRICHUM laeve 'Nightshade'
Dark purple stems bear sprays of blue flowers late summer.
90cm £5.00
CIRSIUM heterophyllum
'Melancholy Thistle'. Smart maroon flowers on woolly stems, leaves are white-felted underneath. Much remarked upon in the garden.
75cm £5.00
SYMPHYOTRICHUM 'Little Carlow'
Erect stems with large clusters of small blue flowers.
AGM 0.90m - 1.20m £5.00
GERANIUM 'Orion'
A wonderful plant, smothered with large, blue deep saucer-shaped flowers. Makes a spreading plant, great under roses. Sunny spot.
AGM 45cm £4.50
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