The planting scheme makes use of muted colours to create a contrast to the purple ribbons of Linaria purpurea and Centuarea nigra which represent the B-Lines
To many a weed but this plant has fantastic resilience, a long flowering season and delicately lobed purple flowers with long spurs which are loved by bumblebees and solitary bees.
Providing tall spikes of honey-brown flowers loved by bumblebees.
Beautiful large bell-shaped flowers attracting scissors bees. Two bee species which only collect pollen from campanulas.
Chosen for the large clusters of flat white umbels with a small red flower in the centre. It also has an associated bee called the carrot-mining bee, which emerges from hibernation as this plant comes into flower.
Chosen because of its importance as a wildlife plant as it provides food for around 130 invertebrate species. A foraging red-tailed bumblebee worker on bird’s-foot-trefoil is a typical British summer scene.
The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity. We aim to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place.
