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Fragaria vesca Alexandria
€3.00
Alpine Strawberry Alexandria A long-established American cultivar of alpine strawberry, Fragaria vesca Alexandria is a deciduous, bushy, short-lived perennial, producing pretty, white, single flowers and small, but delicious fruit. The plant bears fruit over a long period from mid-summer to late autumn, and is a fairly heavy cropper for an alpin...

Galanthus nivalis - Snowdrop
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Galanthus nivalis - Snowdrop Once known as Fair Maids of February, the common snowdrop, Galanthus nivalis, is now more likely to appear in January, thanks to climate change, and is one of the first flowers to appear each year. It’s a bulbous herbaceous perennial which can spread to form large clumps and colonies in the shade of deciduous trees w...

Galanthus nivalis Flore Pleno - Double Snowdrop
€0.55
Galanthus nivalis Flore Pleno - Double Snowdrop A double form of the common snowdrop, Galanthus nivalis f. Pleniflorus Flore Pleno is a bulbous herbaceous perennial which can spread to form large clumps and colonies where the soil suits it. Can be grown in the shade of deciduous trees or under herbaceous perennials. The flowers are fragrant, pur...

Galanthus woronowii - Snowdrop
€11.00
Galanthus woronowii - Snowdrop Many of you will be familiar with our commonest snowdrop, Galanthus nivalis, but you may not know Galanthus woronowii, a shorter specimen with shinier, broader green leaves and beautiful pearl-drop flowers that hang down at a slight angle, the inner segments have green horseshoe-shaped mark near the tips. This bulb...

Galium odoratum - Sweet Woodruff
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Sweet Woodruff (Lus moileas) This carpeting wildflower can be found in mature woodlands and other damp, sheltered places. Native throughout Europe, it was once used to flavour beer and its wonderful scent reminiscent of fresh hay and vanilla was a popular choice in potpourri or indeed in the linen closet - you’ll need to pick it to smell it. Cla...

Geum rivale - Water Avens
€4.75
Water Avens An attractive native plant, Geum rivale is a medium-sized, rather slow-growing, rhizomatous, herbaceous perennial which thrives in wet meadows and as a marginal plant beside streams. The soft green basal leaves are rounded and lobed, and the leaves on the deep-red stems are tripartite. From May to September, the plant bears delicate,...

Hypericum elodes - Marsh St John's-wort
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Hypericum elodes This is a very pretty member of the St John’s-wort family, a native but not very widespread in Ireland. Hyperiocum elodes has downy, heart shaped leaves and clusters of pale yellow flowers in summer. Creeping habit, with stolon-like node-rooting runners and erect stems. Provides good habitat for pond creatures. Position: Full su...
Hypericum tetrapterum

Hypericum tetrapterum
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Square-stalked St. John’s Wort (Beathnua fireann) This native perennial is easily recognizable by - you guessed it - its square stems with distinctive ‘wings’ at the corners. Its oval leaves have translucent dots and the flowers are yellow, blooming from June to September. It will happily inhabit the damper areas in your garden, along ponds for ...

Iris pseudacorus - Yellow Flag
€3.50
Yellow Flag Iris Commonly known as the yellow flag Iris, Iris pseudacorus is often seen in boggy areas or growing in shallow water at the edge of a pond. Planted out in boggy ground, this plant colonises rapidly to form large clumps with long, erect strap shaped leaves and bright yellow flowers in summer. As with all Iris, the tubers are harmful...

Knautia arvensis - Field Scabious
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Field Scabious (Cab an ghasáin) This is a very attractive native wildflower, historically thought to treat scabies, hence the name, lat. ‘scabere’ meaning ‘to scratch’. It is a common sight in dry grassy places throughout the country, blooming from July to late September. It is a tall perennial, with hairy leaved base rosettes from which branche...
Leucanthemum vulgare

Leucanthemum vulgare
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Ox-eye Daisy, Marguerite (Nóinín mór) Everybody knows this native wildflower, indeed it is known to brighten up many a roadside. You may add the young leaves to your summer salads anytime from June to September, when this plant shows off its large white daisy flowers with yellow hearts, sitting on long upright stems springing from basal rosettes...

Lychnis flos-cuculi - Ragged Robin
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Ragged Robin (Nóinín mór) This native wildflower is abundant throughout Ireland, usually seen in marshes and damp meadows where it is one of the prettiest to inhabit these type of areas. Linear to oblong leaves on slender, upright stalks bear deep rose-pink flowers, the petals modified into delicately fringed blossoms to make it withstand the wi...

Lythrum salicaria - Purple loosestrife
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Purple loosestrife Lythrum salicaria is a stunning plant for a medium to large pond or lake. The tall pink blooms can be seen from some distance, it is free flowering over a long period in summer. Commonly known as Purple loosestrife. Very attractive to bees and native. Position: Full SunPlanting depth: Damp soil to 5cm (2’’) below water level.G...

Pachyphragma macrophyllum
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Large-leaved Pachyphragma An attractive and useful little plant, perfect for a shady spot, Pachyphragma macrophyllum is a semi-evergreen perennial with a low, compact habit; it doesn’t spread. The basal leaves are round and scalloped, and mid-green, forming rosettes that may persist through winter. In spring, flat clusters of four-petalled, whit...
Primula elatior - Oxslip

Primula elatior - Oxslip
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Primula elatior - Oxslip A common perennial, now well-used to Irish wildflower gardens, but originally hailing from boggy pastures used by cattle- hence the common name. Basal rosettes of oval crinkly leaves, with upright stems bearing small clusters of pale yellow flowers of about an inch in size, with darker yellow hearts. They smell of prim...
Primula veris - Cowslip

Primula veris - Cowslip
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Common Cowslip (Bainne bó bleachtáin) Primula veris has been used for centuries as a ‘nervine’, said to have a tonic effect on the nervous system and producing a feeling of well-being. It was once so popular it was nearly picked to extinction. The Latin veris translates as ‘Spring’ and it is indeed an early flowering clump-forming native, bearin...

Primula vulgaris - Primrose
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Primrose (Sabhaircín) One of the earliest flowers to chase away the winter gloom. Folklore tells us to "Guard the house with a string of primroses on the first three days of May. The fairies are said not to be able to pass over or under this string". Traditionally a herald of spring and forthcoming summer, gathered on May Eve, nowadays a protect...

Silene dioica - Red Campion
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Silene dioica - Red Campion (Coireán coilleach) Named after Silenus, the merry god of the woodlands in Greek mythology, this native wildflower is a delicate beauty mostly found in shady hedgerows and woods although it can stand full sun. Hairy stalks growing up to 1m high, it bears pinkish-red flowers of about an inch wide, in loose cymes from M...

Silene vulgaris - Bladder Campion
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Bladder Campion (Coireán na gcuach) Named after Silenus, the god of the woodlands in Greek mythology, this is a beautiful native wildflower that can be found all around Ireland. White, drooping flowers are borne on upright grey-green downy stems from June to August. The base of the flower is inflated, a little like a balloon or bladder (hence ...

Succisa pratensis - Devil's Bit Scabious
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Devil’s bit Scabious (Coireán na gcuach) Folklore tells us that this native wildflower plant got its name due to the fact that the devil bit off some of the root in a fit of annoyance at its medicinal properties. In any case this is a low-maintenance plant, found wild in marshes and hedgerows, even bogs, with pretty violet-blue pincushion flowe...