Butterfly Collection

Butterfly Collection Butterfly Collection

• Position: full sun
• Soil: well-drained, preferably poor soil
• Rate of growth: average
• Flowering period: June to August
• Flower colour: blue, mauve, pink, yellow and white
• Other features: attractive to butterflies; contains a packet of Centaurea cyanus (cornflower), Knautia arvensis (field scabious), Centaurea scabiosa (greater knapweed), Centaurea nigra (common knapweed), Malva moschata (musk mallow), Leucanthemum vulgare (oxeye daisy) and Achillea millefolium (yarrow)
• Hardiness: fully hardy
  
  Landlife Wildflower Seed Range:
  
  By choosing Landlife Wildflower seeds you are directly helping to save wildflowers and the wildlife that depend on the for there survival. Landlife is a charity (reg 290510) who plough the profits from their sales into their environmental activitiies in creative conservation - in other words developing new spaces for wildflowers to grow as well as safeguarding existing areas.

  
  A collection of seven predominantly blue and mauve summer-flowering wildflowers designed to provide a haven for native butterflies. Perfect for a sunny site with poor, well-drained soil, to encourage visiting butterflies to breed it's important to retain a small patch of stinging nettles close by in full sun to provide food for the young caterpillars.
  

• Garden care: When sowing seeds do not use a fertiliser since wildflowers prefer poor soils. Deadhead regularly to prolong flowering. In autumn cut the faded flowerheads down to the ground and compost the dead stems.
  
  
• Goes well with: Briza media, Scabiosa 'Butterfly Blue', Buddleja davidii 'Empire Blue', Verbascum nigrum, Perovskia 'Blue Spire', Stachys byzantina