kay wrote:
iliveinazoo;927920 Wrote:
Hello Everybody,
Is there a list of common UK Native garden plants around?

I'll soon be moving into a new house with a half decent sized garden
and I'd like to landscape it with species native to the UK but I've
really got no idea where to start, I'll be needing short trees or
shrubs less than 3 metres tall and flowering plants. Preferably I'd
like the garden to flower throughout the year without having to
plant annuals year after year.

Any ideas or links for inspiration would be great.

Cheers

A Google search for suppliers of wild flower seeds should cover the
flower bits for you. And mixed hedges of UK native species are
frequently specified by Council Planning Offices, so another search
should get hold of a list of these. Most of the hedge species will be
short trees and shrubs.

If you can't find anything else, get hold of a flora - I recommend one
of those by Fitter et al - and flick through for the more showy
species. There are many perennial species worth a place in the garden
- field, bloody, wood cranesbills; primrose, oxlip, cowslip,
foxglove, melancholy thistle (which isn't prickly at all), scabious,
bluebell, ramsons, lily of the valley, snakeshead fritillary, wild
daffodil, red and white campion, ragged robin, purple and yellow
loosetrife,, marsh marigold - that's without really thinking.

Just to mention that there are real native bluebells and invasive Spanish
bluebells, which are not native.


Ian