Insect and bee friendly varieties

Insects are a central part of our food production and indispensable for ecological balance. However, bee and bumblebee species have had massive problems in foraging for food in recent decades. Part of the reason for this is the dwindling proportion of wildflower meadows and flower-filled fallow land in today’s cultivated landscape. Flowering green areas in our gardens can make an important contribution here.

Bittersweet Nightshade - Solanum dulcamara

Important perennial medicinal plant, will grow to approx. 80 cm in height. Flowers from 2nd year onwards. Loves full sun. Owing to fungal infection risk (fusarium), maintain long term crop rotation. Cultivation and transplanting in small clumps is recommended.

€3.58
Black Medick - Green manure

Annual to perennial, early flowering species, also known as hop clover. For limy soil and warmer, rather dry climate. Good as green manure or as underseed for vegetables or grains. Fast-growing but weak in competition from the second use.

€2.89
Blue Fenugreek - Herbs

About 80 cm tall with light blue flowers. The leaves and flowers are used as a spice and in cheese production. Also suitable as green manure. Can be cut several times.

€3.21
Blue Pearl - Giacinto

€9.42
Blue Woodruff - Annual flowers

Asperula azurea. Delicate, blue flowers. Prefers sunny and semi-shady position in well draining soils. The plants with whorled leaves will grow to 30 cm in height.

€3.21
Borage - Herbs

Culinary herb for multiple uses, grows quickly. In good soil, can grow to 1 metre in height. Leaves and blue flowers for use in salads. Excellent bee plant, flowers until first frosts.

€2.89
Brodiaea laxa 'Corrina' - Mini-Agapanthus

€5.72
Buckwheat - Green manure

Annual green manure. Fast initial growth will cover soil quickly. Of medium vigour and with limited self-supporting capability. Ca. 80 cm high.

€3.21
Butterfly - Wild flowers (mixed)

This mixture contains more than 20 different species, including meadow bellflower, knapweed, scabious, horn clover and spring primrose and is particularly good for butterflies. Should be cut once or twice a year (summer/autumn).

€6.15
Calamintha White Cloud - Herbs

Aromatic greater calamint with fragrant white flowers. This compact frost-tolerant perennial grows approx. 20 cm high and does well in sunny rock gardens. Very tasty in drinks and teas.

€3.21
Camassia cusickii - Camassia

€16.59
Camassia leichtlinii 'Caerulea' - Camassia

€16.59
Camelina - Oilseed

Old and versatile crop plant, grown for its oil-bearing seeds, for intertilling or in mixed cropping. Sow in March/April for seed harvest in July.

€2.89
Canterbury Bells - Campanula medium

Biennial, in some instances even perennial Campanula. The large, blue or white flowers gradually 'line u'p on stems up to 70 cm in height. Well suited for borders or for cutting.

€3.21
Carthusian Pink - Dianthus carthusianorum

Wildflower with purple-red flowers that thrives in dry, nutrient-poor habitats, such as rockeries. This hardy plant is good for cut flowers. Native plant endangered by intensive agriculture.

€3.21
Celosia spicata 'Cellway Purple' - Celosia argentea spicata

A heat-loving summer flower for full sun. The compact inflorescences resemble small plumes and glow with an intense magenta hue. Up to 55 cm tall.

€3.00
Chamomile matricaria - Herbs

Annual, if sown in August biennial plant for medicinal use or for tea. Grows to approx. 50 cm in height. Can be directly sown, but propagation and later transplanting in small clumps is highly recommended.

€3.21
Chionodoxa forbesii 'Blue' - Gloria della neve

€10.43
Chionodoxa forbesii 'Pink Giant' - Gloria della neve

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Chionodoxa luciliae - Gloria della neve

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Chionodoxa mix - Gloria della neve

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Clarkia 'Azaleenschau' - Annual flowers

Large, silky-smooth in a range of colours from white to red with various pink shades in between. This low-maintenance, long-lasting branching plant grows up to 30 cm tall. Great as a potted plant and for cut flowers.

€3.21
Clarkia - Clarkia unguiculata

A summer plant with white, pink to violet flowers, approx. 50-80 cm high. Good as a cut flower, for which purpose staggered sowing works best.

€3.21
Clary Sage - Herbs

Decorative food plant for carpenter bees. If planted early, the sturdy panicle with pink bracts and light purple flowers may already appear in the first year. Old medicinal and aromatic plant.

€3.21

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