Rediscovering Our Native Wild Flowers
If you really want to encourage bees, butterflies and all kinds of helpful wildlife to your garden, there's simply no better way than by adding native wild flowers and plants. Not only will you get to enjoy some of our most spectacularly beautiful flowers, but you will also be helping to sustain our dwindling populations of pollinating insects.
It really doesn't matter how small your garden, or even if you have no garden at all - everyone can grow wild flowers, and the more of us that do, the greater the difference we can make to the valuable wildlife that depends on them. And because native plants are naturally accustomed to our climate and soils, they are especially easy to grow and maintain.
Wild For Plants is a site dedicated to celebrating British native wild flowers, plants and trees. It encourages everyone to get involved and offers advice and a helpful range of wild flower services.
It really doesn't matter how small your garden, or even if you have no garden at all - everyone can grow wild flowers, and the more of us that do, the greater the difference we can make to the valuable wildlife that depends on them. And because native plants are naturally accustomed to our climate and soils, they are especially easy to grow and maintain.
Wild For Plants is a site dedicated to celebrating British native wild flowers, plants and trees. It encourages everyone to get involved and offers advice and a helpful range of wild flower services.
Pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vulgaris)
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Cowslip (Primula vulgaris)
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Cheddar Pink (Dianthus gratianopolitanus)
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Snakeshead Fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris)
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What's The Problem?
Within the last 60 years we've destroyed 98% of our meadows, half our broadleaved woodland, and hundreds of thousands of miles of hedgerows, mainly as a result of intensive farming, the use of pesticides and herbicides, and poor land management. As habitats for wild flowers and wildlife diminish, our gardens and other green spaces provide an increasingly vital lifeline for thousands of species of flora and fauna. In fact, UK gardens cover an area greater than all the country's nature reserves put together. Collectively, this means we have a huge potential to make a significant difference by creating a corridor of habitats using native wild plants - providing a much-needed food source for our pollinators. Wild For Plants is dedicated to help breathe new life into gardens and open spaces by encouraging the use of native plant species.
Native wild plants are part of our precious heritage - a vital legacy we've overlooked for too long. On average, each county loses two wild flower species every 5 years. It's time for change. And it's change you can be a part of. To find out more about what's being done to help save our wild flowers in their natural habitats and how you can help, visit Plantlife, the charity that speaks up for our wild plants. Meanwhile here on this site you will find useful information on how to grow wild flowers, shrubs and trees and how to create habitats that will help our wildlife.
Native wild plants are part of our precious heritage - a vital legacy we've overlooked for too long. On average, each county loses two wild flower species every 5 years. It's time for change. And it's change you can be a part of. To find out more about what's being done to help save our wild flowers in their natural habitats and how you can help, visit Plantlife, the charity that speaks up for our wild plants. Meanwhile here on this site you will find useful information on how to grow wild flowers, shrubs and trees and how to create habitats that will help our wildlife.
Why Choose Native Plants?
Meadow brown on ox-eye daisy
Native flowers, trees and shrubs are generally easy to grow and maintain, having a considerable advantage over plants from far-flung parts of the globe - they belong here! Having adapting themselves to our environment, soil and climate, native species are perfectly suited to their surroundings, without any need for cosseting or chemical control. They also have the benefit of natural helpers working on their behalf: insects and organisms that have developed long-standing relationships with our plants over thousands of years, ensuring pests and even other competing plants are controlled naturally - no need for pesticides or weedkillers.
Native flora generally supports many more species of insects than exotic plants, which in turn provides food for our birds and other mammals and reptiles. It soon becomes clear that an entire ecosystem, made up of plants, insects, birds and mammals can all co-exist in natural harmony, without need for human intervention. In fact, reliance on man-made chemicals, such as pesticides, fungicides and artificial fertilisers only really becomes necessary when we interfere with this natural balance.
By setting aside at least some space in your garden for native plants, you will automatically start to create an area that becomes richer in biodiversity. It's amazing how quickly bees, butterflies and a whole range of other wildlife will discover your native plants. Wild For Plants will help you discover just how easily our beautiful wild flowers lend themselves to our gardens, providing colour and interest throughout the year in borders, beds, tubs, troughs and baskets.
Wild For Plants works with private and commercial organisations on projects large and small. To find out what Wild For Plants can do for you, please see Wild Flower Services.
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Native flora generally supports many more species of insects than exotic plants, which in turn provides food for our birds and other mammals and reptiles. It soon becomes clear that an entire ecosystem, made up of plants, insects, birds and mammals can all co-exist in natural harmony, without need for human intervention. In fact, reliance on man-made chemicals, such as pesticides, fungicides and artificial fertilisers only really becomes necessary when we interfere with this natural balance.
By setting aside at least some space in your garden for native plants, you will automatically start to create an area that becomes richer in biodiversity. It's amazing how quickly bees, butterflies and a whole range of other wildlife will discover your native plants. Wild For Plants will help you discover just how easily our beautiful wild flowers lend themselves to our gardens, providing colour and interest throughout the year in borders, beds, tubs, troughs and baskets.
Wild For Plants works with private and commercial organisations on projects large and small. To find out what Wild For Plants can do for you, please see Wild Flower Services.
Wild Flower Services Wild Flower Guide Contact About Shaun Barr Garden Services Wild Flower Meadows Wildlife-friendly Hedgerows British Native Trees Wildlife Gardening Tips Plants For Sunny Borders Plants For Light Shade
