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.

Faba - Green manure

This well-balanced mix of different botanical families is particularly useful before pulse crops and contributes to soil fertility. Sow early in the season for an attractive, diverse range of flowers.

€2.85
Fairy Bellflower - Campanula persicifolia

Campanula persicifolia, blue or white bell-shaped long lasting flowers, for sun or semi-shae. Depending on location will remain compact or grow up to one metre in height.

€3.05
Fairy's Garden - Flowers (mixed)

Mixture of low-growing, delicate flowers. Contains amongst others: prickly poppy, summer pheasant's-eye, baby blue eyes, salvia horminum, silene, Mexican paintbrush, common poppy, dwarf lupin.

€3.05
Fenugreek - Green manure

Legume for under-sowing with a taproot and white-yellowish, insect-friendly flowers. The entire plant has a coumarin scent, typical for Schabziger cheese. The seeds are milder when roasted or boiled and are suitable as a tea, for oil or as a spice in curries, hard cheese, bread or vegetable dishes.

€2.85
Field Marigold - Calendula arvensis

Wild form with small golden yellow flowers. Flowers tirelessly. Almost extinct in Switzerland. Best sown directly.

€4.60
Flowering Lawn - Flowery Lawns and Meadows

Mixture with at least 20 species for poor to nutrient-rich areas, including ryegrass, red fescue, daisy, small meadow button and knapweed. Under heavy traffic and frequent cutting (4 to 9 times a year), some fertilization is recommended. Sowing density: 15g/m².

€4.77
Flowering Meadow - Flowery Lawns and Meadows

Very species-rich, extensive meadow with grasses and almost 30 different types of wildflowers. Suitable for dry, lean to slightly fresh, humus-covered soil. We recommend a hay cut from mid-June onwards and a low autumn cut. Sowing density: 5g/m².

€4.77
Fodder Radish (nematode reducing) - Green manure

Oil radish with rapid juvenile development and double nematode resistance. Roots penetrate the subsoil vigorously and is particularly suitable for compacted soils. Sow after mechanical loosening.

€3.05
Fodder Radish - Green manure

Annual green manure, fast growth when young. Roots will quickly and thoroughly penetrate subsoil. Particularly recommended for compacted soil conditions. Mechanically loosen soil prior to sowing.

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Fragrant Primrose - Primula veris

One of the best-known flowers of spring, does well in sun and light shade. Fragrant flowers. Approx. 20 cm in height.

€3.05
Gaura lindheimeri - Gaura lindheimeri

Delicate wild plant from North America that likes to flowr profusely. Prefers sunny, dry locations with poor soil. Grows to ca 1 m in height with plenty of star-shaped, but short lived, white and pink flowers.

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Glory of Summer - Flowers (mixed)

A mixture of low but resilient flowers. Contains: Antirrhinum, Clarkia, California poppy, bladder campion, Farewell To Spring, tricolour convolvulus, asperula orientalis and flax.

€3.14
Goldbeam - Flowers (mixed)

Harmonious flower color mix with old and rare ProSpecieRara varieties in cheerful tones of yellow and pink.

€3.14
Grass Pea - Green manure

Undemanding, drought-tolerant and low-growing legume with good nitrogen fixation. It thrives in all soils and, like peas, is grown as a dry fruit. Rich in protein, excessive consumption is not recommended (risk of lathyrism).

€3.05
Grass-Clover Mixture - Green manure

Versatile mixture with forage grasses, white and red clover. Also grows in dry, nitrogen-poor locations.

€2.73
Greater Celandine - Chelidonium majus

Yellow flowering ruderal plant, whose milky sap is also used in the treatment of warts. Prefers nutrient-rich soil, sun or semi-shade.

€3.42
Hairy Vetch - Green manure

Excellent as green manure and as fodder plant for overwintering. Fixes nitrogen, deep rooting. Provides very good soil structure.

€3.05
Hollyhock - Alcea rosea

Transient plant with mallow-type flowers in various shades of red. Up to 2 metres in height. Particularly attractive in front of buildings and walls.

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Hungarian Vetches - Green manure

Green manure similar to winter vetch, suitable for use in winter. Frost hardy. Uniform germination. Good for mixed cropping. Useful for fixing nitrogen in soil.

€5.30
Hyssop - Herbs

Perennial, culinary herb and salad plant, great for bees. With its dark-blue flowers it is very decorative, too. Sow in seed trays and transplant, or can be sown directly where it is to grow.

€3.05
Insect Buffet - Green manure

Mixture of flowering plants for boundary strips. Does not contain cruciferous plants, but leguminous ones as well as other insect feeding varieties: Buckwheat, phacelia, sunflowers, borage, narrowleaf lupin, trifolium alexandrinum, persian clover, common vetch, serradella, common motherwort, dill, mallow.

€3.05
Jacob's Ladder - Polemonium caeruleum

Polemonium caeruleum; native plant with purple-blue bell-shaped flowers, which are in flower from spring to summer. Prefers fresh locations and will do well in sunny and semi-shady locations. Good provider of pollen.

€3.05
Korean Mint - Herbs

Belongs to the Agastache family. Little known plant grown for tea and fragrance. Blue flowering stems also very attractive for any garden. Aroma reminiscent of mint and anise.

€3.05
Landsberg Mixture - Green manure

Winter cover crop mixture, consists of ryegrass, winter vetch, crimson clover. Extremely good preparatory crop, bright crimson clover flowers in spring.

€3.05

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