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It's easy to make your garden more wildlife-friendly. Encouraging pollinating insects like bees and butterflies will increase your crops of fruit, and of

vegetables like runner

beans.

Birds

will

eat

your

insect

pests,

and

enable

you

to

reduce

the

amount

of pesticide

you

have

to

use

in

the

garden.

And

you'll

be

doing

your

bit

for

conservation!

Bees prefer

simple,

single

flowers

providing

pollen

&

nectar

throughout

the

year.

Daisy-likeflowers,

or

two-lipped

ones

(like

catmint)

are

best.

Butterflies

need

similar

flowers

to

bees,

rich

in

nectar,

in

a

sheltered,

sunny

area

where

they

won't

be

buffeted

by

wind.

Long,

tubular

flowers

like

honeysuckle

are

popular.Birds need

plants

which

attract

insects

on

which

they

can

feed,

or

which

bear

fruit.

They

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dense

cover

(like

ivy)

for

shelter

and

nesting.c

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(Sallow)

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(Butterfly

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(Summer

Heather)Cornus

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(Winter

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(Lavender)Leycesteria

(Pheasant

Berry)Ligustrum

(Privet)Pyracantha

(Firethorn)Rosa

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(Guelder

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SAlyssumCentaurea

(Cornflower)Cheiranthus

(Wallflower)CosmosHelianthus

(Sunflower)Heliotropium

(Cherry

Pie)Iberis

(Candytuft)Limnanthes

(Poached

Eggs)Malva

(Mallow)Myosotis

(Forget-me-not)NasturtiumNigella

(Love-in-a-mist)Papaver

(Poppy)PetuniaTagetes

(French

Marigold)VerbenaZinnia

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(Snowdrop)Hyacinthoides

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(Bluebell)Muscari

(Grape

Hyacinth)Narcissus

(Daffodil)

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(Loosestrife)Malva

(Mallow)Monarda

(Bergamot)Nepeta

(Catmint)Panicum

(Millet)Papaver

(Poppy)PhloxPolemonium

(Jacob's

Ladder)Polygonum

(Bistort)Primula

(Primrose,

Cowslip)Pulmonaria

(Lungwort)Rubus

Rudbeckia

(Coneflower)SalviaScabiosa

(Scabious)Sedum

(esp.

spectabile)

(Ice

Plant)SidalceaSolidago

(Golden

Rod)Stachys

(Lamb's

Ears)Symphytum

(Comfrey)Verbascum

(Mullein)VerbenaVeronica

(Speedwell)Viola

odorata

(Sweet

Violet)

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:Feed wild birdsPut up bird & insect boxesSow some wild flowers

Aconitum

(Monk's

Hood)AgastacheAjuga

(Bugle)Alcea

(Hollyhock)AlyssumAnemone

hybridaAquilegiaArabisArmeria

(Thrift)

Aster

(Michaelmas

Daisy)AubrietaCampanulaCentaurea

(Cornflower)Centranthus

(Valerian)Digitalis

(Foxglove)DoronicumEchinacea (Cone Flower)Echinops (Globe Flower)Erigeron

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(Sea

Holly)Erysimum

(Wallflower)Geranium

(hardy)GeumGypsophilaHelenium

(Sneezewort)HelleborusHesperis

(Sweet

Rocket)Iberis

(Candytuft)Lamium

(Deadnettle)Leucanthemum

(Shasta

Daisy)LiatrisLunaria

(Honesty)Lupinus

(Lupin)

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NB. Not all plants on these lists will be available throughout the year at Gordon Riggs. Some plants can be grown from seed

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