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Landlife Wildflower Seed RangeBy choosing Landlife Wildflower seeds you are directly helping to save wildflowers and the wildlife that depend on the for there survival. Landlife is a charity (reg 290510) who plough the profits from their sales into their environmental activitiies in creative conservation - in other words developing new spaces for wildflowers to grow as well as safeguarding existing areas.Clusters of tubular, mid-blue, lilac or white flowers on robust, red-tinged stems in July and August and nettle-like, bristly, mid-green leaves. In former days this nettle-leaved bellflower was widely used for treating throat infections. Thriving in partial shade it's an excellent, tall plant for the edges of a woodland or wildflower garden.Position: partial shadeSoil: dry, neutral to alkaline soilRate of growth: averageFlowering period: July and AugustFlower colour: mid-blue, lilac or whiteOther features: nettle-like, bristly, mid-green leavesHardiness: fully hardyGarden care: After flowering cut back the faded flower-stems down to the ground and compostGoes well with: Knautia arvensis, Cardamine pratensis, Lonicera pericymenum, Briza media, Fritillaria meleagris, Crataegus monogyna
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