'A Selection of Plants that Attract Insects' available from Avondale Nursery

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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PHLOX paniculata 'Wendy House'

Spectacular deep magenta flower clusters, sweetly-scented, over contrasting dark leaves.

60cm £5.00

SYMPHYOTRICHUM novae-angliae 'Lye End Beauty'

Warm deep-pink flowers.

1.40m £5.00

SYMPHYOTRICHUM novae-angliae 'Lye End Beauty'

KNIPHOFIA 'Bee's Lemon'

Narrow lemon-yellow flowers from green buds. Sun.

90cm £5.00

KNIPHOFIA 'Saturn'

Orange to yellow pokers.

75cm £5.00

ASTER pyrenaeus 'Lutetia'

Pale lilac flowers in open sprays from August.

50cm £5.00

GERANIUM 'Natalie'

Loose mounds of deeply cut leaves and many pale violet-blue flowers.

40cm £4.50

SYMPHYOTRICHUM novae-angliae 'Barr's Blue'

Violet-blue flowers form September-November.

1.20m £5.00

SANGUISORBA tenuifolia 'Bordeaux'

Deep wine-red lambstails on tall upright stems through summer. Sun.

1.50m £5.00

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

ERYNGIUM x zabelii 'Big Blue'

Branching heads of large electric blue flowers on blue stems June-September. Upright and butch!

80cm £7.50

SANGUISORBA tenuifolia 'Henk Gerritsen'

Small red burrs on thin stems.

1.50m £5.00

SALVIA microphylla 'Wild Watermelon'

Magenta-pink flowers with a white throat, May-November. Sun.

75cm £5.00

HELIANTHUS 'Happy Days'

Golden yellow flowers with single outer petals and a wide double centre.

1.50m £5.00

GERANIUM 'Spinners'

Glowing violet-blue flowers, yellow spring foliage.

90cm £4.50

GERANIUM psilostemon

Intense magenta flowers with a black eye. Good autumn colour.

AGM 1.20m £5.00

AGASTACHE rugosa 'Golden Jubilee'

Stunning golden-yellow foliage contrasts well with purple-blue flower spikes from July-September.

60cm £5.00