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Help protect biodiversity by introducing some wilderness to your garden! These native and naturalised wildflowers will provide much needed food for pollinators and will attract bees, butterflies, and other winged friends.
You can read more about choosing and growing wildflowers in our advice section.
Availability and planting | April to August
There are wildflower for nearly every season, though the largest variety is usually available in spring and summer (from April to August) when they are coming into (and in) bloom!
Achillea millefolium
Achillea millefolium
€3.00
Common Yarrow (Athair Thalún) This native wildflower is a strongly scented, downy perennial of pastures, roadsides and waste places throughout Ireland that flowers from June until November. Feathery foliage (‘millefolium’ means ‘a thousand leaves’) that is grey-green with creeping shoots. White, sometimes pinkish daisy-like flower heads. Site: T...
Allium ursinum
Allium ursinum
€4.00
Allium ursinum - Wild Garlic A wild relative of chives and native to Europe and Asia, known commonly as Wild Garlic or Ramsons. Allium ursinum carpets damp woodland in April and May with a display of round white, star-shaped flowers and broad long leaves. All parts are edible, the leaves can be eaten in salads or lightly cooked but be sure that...
Anagallis tenella - Bog pimpernel
€4.75
Bog pimpernel Commonly known as bog pimpernel, Anagallis tenella forms a dense carpet of tiny evergreen leaves, mixed with numerous rosy pink flowers from late spring to early summer. This spreading, native plant is ideal in a bog garden or very shallow water. Position: Full sunPlanting depth: Grow in the damp margin to level with the water surf...
Anemone nemorosa - Wood Anemone
€4.00
Anemone nemorosa - Wood Anemone (Lus na gaoithe) This is a native Irish wildflower perennial that will show off its delicate white flowers from February through to April. Has a creeping habit and can be found on rich soil in woods, river- and roadbanks. The lovely green, deeply cut leaves will add texture to informal flowerbeds or as an underpla...
Angelica archangelica
Angelica archangelica
€4.00
Garden Angelica, Norwegian Angelica A plant with majestic presence, Angelica archangelica is a late flowering native wildflower with exceptional architectural form. Angelica is a bright green biennial with deeply coloured contrasting stems and dome shaped heads of pale yellow flowers which are extremely attractive to bees and other beneficial p...
Anthriscus sylvestris - Cow Parsley
€3.00
Cow Parsley A native wildflower (peirsil bhó), Anthriscus sylvestris is a familiar sight along country waysides in late spring. It’s a tall, vigorous, clump-forming, herbaceous perennial with an upright habit, and the pretty, fern-like, bright green leaves emerge very early, suppressing weeds. Flat, airy umbels of creamy-white flowers appear fro...
Armeria Maritima - Sea Thrift
€3.00
Sea Thrift (Rabhán) This charming native wildflower is sometimes known as Sea Pink or Cliff Rose and is indeed a common sight on cliffs in the west of Ireland. It tends to form little carpets on rocks and saltmarshes from April to July, with dense tufts of small, papery, pink flowers and grass-like grey-green leaves and slender, bare flowerstalk...
Bluebell - Hyacinthoides non-scripta
€3.50
Hyacinthoides non-scripta - Bluebell (Coinnle corra) For many people in Ireland, the emergence of the native Bluebell is the sign that Spring has sprung. Indeed from April through to May, Hyacinthoides non-scripta shows off its stunning tubular, purplish-blue flowers, curving backwards at the tips, four to fifteen on a smooth green raceme archin...
Caltha palustris - Marsh Marigold
€3.00
King cup or Marsh marigold (Lus buí Bealtaine) Once established, Caltha palustris or commonly known as the King cup or Marsh marigold produces a mass of bright yellow flowers very early in the spring. After flowering in March and April most foliage will gradually die back as the flowers fade, but sometimes it has a second flowering later in the ...
Campanula rotundifolia - Harebell
€3.00
Harebell (Méaracán Gorm) Native wildflower perennial of which folklore suggests that it either grew in places frequented by hares, or that witches used juices from this plant to transform themselves into hares. In any case, it is found in dry grassland, dunes and rock seams forming clumps of small round leaves, with elegant upright stems bearing...
Cardamine pratensis - Cuckoo flower
€4.75
Cuckoo flower or Lady’s Smock Mounds of pale green ferny foliage with pale lilac blooms in late spring & early summer. The Cuckoo Flower is noted for attracting wildlife, it is one of the main food plants of the Orange Tip butterfly. Cardamine pratensis is best grown in large drifts in damp woodland, meadows or as a marginal plant in the moi...
Centaurea scabiosa - Greater Knapweed
€3.00
Greater Knapweed (Mínscoth Mór) A native perennial wildflower with striking large, thistle-like purple flowers from July to September. Found in scrub and on sea cliffs. This is a tall, upright plant which will be loved by bees and other pollinators alike. Great for a bee or butterfly garden or a colour bed. Site: Tolerates exposureSoil: Any we...
Daucus carota
Daucus carota
€3.00
Wild Carrot, Queen Anne’s Lace (Mealbhacán) This tall native is a regular in our hedgerows, grasslands and coastal areas. The tiny flowers and feathery leaves do give it a lace-like appearance, quite like the leaves of the carrot plant. Umbels of delicate creamy-white flowers, the central flower often red, appear in June and sit on tall, erect h...
Digitalis purpurea - Foxglove
€3.00
Common Foxglove (Lus mór) A well-known native of Ireland, the common name comes from the phrase ‘Folk's Gloves’, as in fairy folk. In the olden days, you were not supposed to bring Foxglove into the house as it was considered unlucky. This is a poisonous plant, and yet the digitoxin it contains is instrumental in commercial medicine treating hea...
Echium vulgare - Viper’s-bugloss
€3.00
Viper’s-bugloss (Lus nathrach) Viper’s-bugloss seems as rather inscrutable common name - in that regard its other name ‘blueweed’ is more straightforward - until we learned that ‘bugloss’ comes from the Greek word for ‘ox-tongue’, which must be a reference to the shape and texture of the leaves: hairy, strap-shaped and with a pronounced vein in ...
Eranthis hyemalis - Winter Aconite
€3.00
Eranthus hyemalis - Winter aconite One of the first flowers to appear each January, Eranthis hyemalis is a tuberous herbaceous perennial which can spread to form large clumps and colonies where it’s suited. It can be grown under the shade of deciduous trees, and in light grass. The cup-shaped flowers are brilliant yellow, 1 ¼”/3cm in width, and ...
Eryngium maritimum
Eryngium maritimum
€3.00
Sea Holly (Cuileann trá) In the 16th century, Eryngium maritimum was considered a strong aphrodisiac. We are sworn to secrecy, but in any case, Sea Holly is a widespread native, easily recognised due to its waxy, spiky appearance. Sitting happily in clumps on the sand of many an Irish beach or dune, it has leathery, silver-blue, holly-like leave...
Eupatorium cannabinum
Eupatorium cannabinum
€3.00
Hemp Agrimony (Cnáib uisce) Eupatorium cannabinum must be one of the most popular among bees and butterflies. Native throughout Ireland and found by ponds, rivers, on seacliffs and indeed in ditches, this is a big plant, with nice upright and reddish, branched stems carrying racemes of wide flat flowerheads with tiny pink flowers from July to S...
Filipendula ulmaria - Meadowsweet
€3.00
Meadowsweet (Airgead luachra) Bees, butterflies, kids and adults alike will delight in the almond-like scent of this vigourous native perennial- it’s reminiscent of marzipan. Fluffy white candyfloss flowers borne on tall reddish stems of up to 1.2m will add height and texture to the border or hedgerow from June to September. The leaves are tooth...
Fragaria vesca - Wild Strawberry
€3.00
Wild Strawberry (Sú talún fiáin) Finding this plant growing wild and picking off the tiny sweet ‘strawberries’ is the cherry on the cake if you’re out on a walk anywhere in Ireland. Also known as Alpine strawberry, Fragaria vesca is native to Ireland and a popular choice among permaculturists. The berries are not actually berries, technically sp...