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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EUPATORIUM maculatum Atropurpureum Group
Huge clusters of small purple-pink flowers on upright red stems with bright green leaves, July-September. Sun or part shade.
AGM 2.00m £5.00
HELIANTHUS 'Happy Days'
Golden yellow flowers with single outer petals and a wide double centre.
1.50m £5.00
KNIPHOFIA 'Sunningdale Yellow'
Slender pale yellow pokers with green tips, June-August.
AGM 1.00m £5.00
ERYNGIUM x zabelii 'Violetta'
Darkest blue form of the sea holly, has spiky, deep indigo flowers in summer.
80cm £7.50
SYMPHYOTRICHUM novi-belgii 'Farncombe Lilac'
Double lilac-pink flowers August-October. HPS Conservation Scheme plant, well worth trying!
75cm £5.00
EURYBIA radula
Lavender starry flowers in August on a neat bushy plant with upright stems. Early.
45cm £5.00
ASTER amellus 'Forncett Flourish'
Strong, upright grower with deep mauve daisies from early September.
60cm £5.00
SANGUISORBA tenuifolia 'Strawberry Frost'
Our introduction! Distinct, elegant foliage only to 60cm, then tall upright stems bear clean white catkin flowers dusted with strawberry-pink.
1.20m £7.50
SYMPHYOTRICHUM 'Little Carlow'
Erect stems with large clusters of small blue flowers.
AGM 0.90m - 1.20m £5.00
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