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About | department
Really Wild Flowers is the brand name of H.V. Horticulture Ltd. We specialise in the supply of native plants and seed material, an expertise we have been developing for 24 years. We are a major supplier of Britain's indigenous flora and as part of the service we provide in-depth technical advice.
Shop | department
Welcome to our shop. All you need to create wonderful native wild flower meadows and gardens.
Bug Forum | department
Visit the Natural History Museum's Nature Online site for a bug forum.
Advice | department
A variety of information for gardeners, designers and ecologists to help you grow British wildflowers successfully.
Services | department
To successfully create sustainable habitats using native flora requires expertise and an understanding of appropriate species and techniques to manage the habitats. To support you we provide the following services:
Wildflower collections | department
Collections of plug plants drawn from native British species. Available most of the year. Do remember to water the plants until established.
Hedgerow collections | department
Hedgerow plant collections. Available only in the Winter months.
Bulbs | department
British Winter and Spring flowering bulbs
Plug Plants Plus - Trade | department
For orders of 200+ plants, please contact us for a quote...
Seed mixes | department
A choice of British wildflower seeds and native grass mixes, ideal for creating sustainable wildflower meadows. Most are available throughout the year but AUTUMN and SPRING are best for sowing.
Plug plants | department
Individual species of wild flowers available most of the year.
Gifts & Tools | department
Books, tools, greetings cards, soaps, gifts and other interesting items. Available all year round.
Hedging plants & shrubs | department
Individual species of plants for hedges. Available in the Winter.
FAQs | department
Downloads | department
Our archive of downloadable Microsoft Word documents. These were mostly written in the 1990's and although some data is not of the moment, they still contain a wealth of important and helpful information.
Site | department
Habitats | department
Seed | department
Plants | department
Management | department
Articles | department
Advice on planting, seeding and plug care throughout the year.
Books | department
Tools | department
Postcards | department
Soil analysis | department
Further information & Links | department
Other websites you might find of interest
Soil analysis | department
Contact us | department
About this site | department
In the Shop you will find a large number of the items we sell. Our Links are in the Advice section.
Soaps | department
A selection of hand made soaps of fine quality and attractively packaged.
Greetings Cards | department
A superb range of beautiful cards and notelets.
Consultancy Advice | department
Really Wild Flowers provides a complete on-site consultancy service to assist you in the design and establishment of wild flower habitats.
Wildflower Turf | department
Wild flower and grass turf available all year round.
Spring Flowering | product
A collection of 50 Spring flowering plug plants.
Mixed Native Hedge | product
A collection of 25 bare-root plants of 5 different hedgerow species, 60-90cm in height, sufficient to plant a double row hedge 5 metres long.
Snakeshead Fritillary bulbs in the green | product
Snakeshead Fritillaries have pretty chequered pendant petals...
Conservation Hedge | product
A collection of 51 bare-root plants of 8 different hedgerow species, 60-90cm in height, sufficient to plant a double row hedge 10 metres long.
Primrose | product
A wonderful harbinger of Spring...
Cowslip | product
A valuable and attractive plant with dainty yellow flowers...
Meadow Cranesbill | product
A tall perennial that produces beautiful violet/blue flowers on a leafy stem...
Oxeye Daisy | product
An essential plant for wild flower meadows.
Cuckoo Flower | product
The Cuckoo Flower or Lady's Smock is an elegant flower...
Red Campion | product
An attractive perennial plant with arrow shaped leaves and narrow stems...
Black Knapweed | product
Essential to every meadow, Black Knapweed is a tall, tough perennial flower that produces large purple thistle-like flowers...
Devils Bit Scabious | product
Devils Bit Scabious produces a mass of attractive purple or lilac pompons on tall wiry stems...
Betony | product
A beautiful flower found throughout England and Wales...
Field Scabious | product
The Field Scabious produces pale blue/mauve flowers on long stems...
Birdsfoot Trefoil | product
This is a long lived perennial producing clusters of yellow and red flowers on 10 to 30cm stems especially in June and July...
Meadow Buttercup | product
The Meadow Buttercup is one of the most well known and commonest wild flowers.
Foxglove | product
A biennial plant which develops a large leaf-rosette in the first year and an erect leafy...
Greater Stitchwort | product
A perennial plant with beautiful white star-like flowers that is commonly associated with Bluebells and Red Campions amongst the hedges and trees...
Ragged Robin | product
The name Ragged refers to the appearance of its reddish pink flowers, which appear in May to June...
Bugle | product
Bugle is a small plant that produces a ring of blue flowers on top of each set of leaves...
Greater Knapweed | product
Produces very attractive large purple flowers in mid-summer.
Agrimony | product
This perennial plant has alternate pinnate leaves with toothed leaflets and yellow flowers...
Bladder Campion | product
Bladder Campion produces fragrant white bell-like flowers...
Cats Ear | product
Cats Ear is a common perennial plant with generally hairy leaves in a basal rosette and...
Chicory | product
Chicory is a tall plant with a beautiful sky blue flower...
Clustered Bellflower | product
Clustered Bellflower has beautiful deep blue-purple flowers and is found on chalk and limestone...
Common Vetch | product
A quick growing annual plant that produces paired pink to reddish purple flowers...
Common Dog Violet | product
An important plant for butterflies, the Common Dog Violet is most often found on short...
Germander Speedwell | product
A low growing plant with pretty blue/purple flowers...
Common Daisy | product
This familiar little plant has a basal rosette of bright green leaves and stems with pretty white and yellow flower heads...
Ground Ivy | product
A low growing hairy plant with evergreen heart shaped leaves and small violet flowers...
Hedge Cranesbill | product
A very pretty low growing perennial plant with small mauve flowers...
Hedge Woundwort | product
A tall perennial plant which has paired leaves with toothed margins and dark red, orchid-like flowers...
Great Mullein | product
Great Mullein, also known as Aaron's Rod, is a biennial plant which forms a large leaf rosette in the first year and then produces a leafy flower stem in the second year...
Nettle-Leaved Bellflower | product
With nettle shaped leaves this is an attractive tall perennial plant with blue/purple bell-like flowers...
White Campion | product
A short lived perennial with sticky hairy stems and white flowers....
Wood Sage | product
Wood Sage has hairy stems with crinkled, rounded leaves and yellow spiked flowers.
Yellow Archangel | product
A plant of ancient woodlands and old hedge banks...
Brooklime | product
A robust fleshy plant with blue flowers...
Hemp Agrimony | product
A tall, robust plant with broad, pink flower heads which attract bees and butterflies.
Marsh Birdsfoot Trefoil | product
Marsh, or Greater, Birdsfoot Trefoil has yellow pea-like flowers, often with red or orange markings.
Meadowsweet | product
This is a robust, attractive plant with strong white fragrant flowers...
Purple Loosestrife | product
A striking perennial plant with tall spires of purple blooms...
Sneezewort | product
An attractive upright perennial with clusters of small white flowers...
Square-stemmed St. John's Wort | product
A large perennial with panicles of pale yellow flowers...
Water Avens | product
An attractive perennial plant with pretty pendent flowers of purple, pink and orange that look like...
Yellow Flag Iris | product
The Yellow Flag Iris is one of only two native Irises. It has strong reed-like leaves and large yellow flowers...
Red Clover | product
Red Clover has trifoliate leaves and red or pink flowers in a dense round cluster.
Selfheal | product
Selfheal has purple/violet flowers on a spike and was thought to have some medicinal value...
Vipers Bugloss | product
Vipers Bugloss is a biennial plant with beautiful violet blue flowers...
Musk Mallow | product
An erect perennial with multiple stems and a delicate 5 petalled pink flower...
Small Scabious | product
A very attractive flower of short, mainly calcareous, grasslands...
Columbine | product
The Columbine is a tall erect perennial with attractive lobed leaflets and nodding blue, purple or...
Yarrow | product
Yarrow has finely divided leaves that grow from the main stem, at the top of which is a flat cluster of creamy white or pink flowers.
Lady's Bedstraw | product
Lady's Bedstraw has slender hairy stems with clusters of frothy, fragrant, yellow flowers.
Marsh Marigold | product
Also known as Kingcup, it thrives near water, on pondsides, in water meadows and wet...
Kidney Vetch | product
A spreading plant with very narrow leaves and a fragile stem. It produces clusters of yellow to orange, or even reddish, flowers...
Wild Marjoram | product
A bushy perennial plant with aromatic leaves and purplish stems.
Black Medick | product
Black Medick is a sprawling plant with small trifoliate leaves and clusters of little yellow flowers...
Rock Rose | product
This is a delicate evergreen plant with pretty yellow flowers.
Common Toadflax | product
An erect perennial with narrow grey-green leaves and pretty yellow flowers with orange markings...
Autumn Hawkbit | product
Autumn Hawkbit is a low growing plant with deeply lobed leaves at the base and yellow flower heads...
Orange Hawkbit | product
Also known as Fox and Cubs...
Mouse-Ear Hawkweed | product
A perennial plant, whose yellow flowers have red stripes on the...
Tansy | product
Tansy has feathery looking leaves and dense clusters of yellow flowers on the top of each stem.
Wild Basil | product
Wild Basil is not the culinary herb Basil. It has pretty little flowers of a deep pink colour...
Hoary Plantain | product
An attractive grassland perennial, with a larger flowerhead than the well known Ribwort Plantain.
Common Sorrel | product
A perennial herb which produces attractive pinky red seeds...
Making Wildflower Meadows | product
By Pam Lewis. "Fortunately a few enterprising folk, like the author of this delightful and useful book, are willing to share their experience and the skills which can revive our countryside..." Dame Miriam Rothschild. Hardback. 160 pages.
Sticky Wicket - Gardening in Tune with Nature | product
Signed by the author, Pam Lewis. Voted 'Enthusiasts' Book of the Year 2005' by Garden Writers' Guild. Paperback. 208 pages.
The Handbook of Native Trees & Shrubs | product
By Charlotte de la Bedoyere. "An indispensable guide for anyone contemplating planting a patch of woodland" Alan Gear, Chief Executive, Henry Doubleday Research Association. Paperback. 128 pages.
Portrait of a Woodland | product
'Portrait of a Woodland. Biodiversity in 40 Acres'. Signed by the author, Charlotte de la Bedoyere. Hardback. 176 pages. Foreword by David Bellamy.
Soap | product
Hand made soaps using a blend of fine quality plant oils. These soaps are gentle with a silky texture and delicate lather. They are finely fragranced...
Soil Analysis Service | product
An understanding of the soil, its pH, texture and nutrient status, is fundamental to understanding your site and selecting the plants that are likely to thrive there...
Blackthorn | product
Blackthorn is one of the first trees or shrubs to flower each Spring.
Hazel | product
The Hazel produces catkins in winter and edible nuts in late summer or early autumn.
Field Maple | product
The Field Maple has palmate leaves often pinky red at leaf burst in spring and a glorious golden...
Buckthorn | product
Common Buckthorn has neat shiny green leaves which turn yellow in autumn.
Hawthorn | product
It has attractive leaves and is adorned with white flowers in spring and beautiful red berries...
Alder Buckthorn | product
An essential food plant for the larvae of the Brimstone butterfly and...
Dogwood | product
A good hedgerow plant with attractive autumn colour...
Spindle | product
An under-appreciated native shrub/tree...
Wild Privet | product
A deciduous shrub bearing white flowers in the summer...
Dog Rose | product
Pink or white flowers in summer...
Burnet Rose | product
A rose with creamy white flowers from May to July...
Lesser Celandine | product
As it flowers in early spring, Lesser Celandine can provide much needed colour early in the year...
Wild Flower Meadow mix | product
A general wild flower and grass seed mix suitable for a wide range of soil types...
Butterfly Meadow Mix | product
A mix which will attract butterflies, such as this Clouded Yellow, as the flowers and grasses will provide nectar for the adults and...
Meadow mix for Clay or Wet Soils | product
A wide range of grass and flower species...
Meadow mix for Chalky or Limestone Soils | product
A diverse range of species best suited to infertile...
Meadow mix for Sandy Soils | product
Wild flower and grass species suited to free draining, infertile sites.
Hedgerow & Verge Seed Mix | product
A mix of species suited to the semi-shade conditions of hedgerows...
Pond edge seed mix | product
Species suitable for damp soils around the edges of ponds, streams and ditches...
Yellow Rattle Seed | product
An attractive annual flower often used to weaken grass growth. Best sown September-December.
Cornfield Annuals Seed Mix | product
Create a wonderful splash of colour in early summer...
Wild Flower seed mix for calcareous woodlands | product
A mix of wild flower species to be sown at 1 gram...
Wild Flower seed mix for neutral woodlands | product
A mix of wild flower species to be sown at 1 gram...
Wild Flower seed mix for acid woodlands | product
A mix of wild flower species to be sown at 1 gram...
Postcards | product
A selection of postcards approx 10.5cm x 15.5cm (4" x 6"). Tick the ten you would like and then Add to Basket. There is a discount when ordering 3 packs of 10.
Wild Flowers of Britain & Northwest Europe | product
Wild Flowers of Britain & Northwest Europe by Christopher Grey-Wilson. 319 pages. Paperback.
Trees | product
Author: Allen J. Coombes. A clear recognition guide of trees with excellent photographs. Flexiback. 304 pages.
Britain’s Butterflies | product
A comprehensive photographic guide to the butterflies of Britain and Ireland, covering the 60 regularly occurring species. 192 pages. Flexible cover.
Gardeners Soap | product
Hand made Gardeners Soap. A treat for your hands when you come in from the garden.
Primrose Soap | product
Hand made Primrose Soap
Rose & Geranium | product
Rose & Geranium Soap
Clifftop III Card | product
Designed by Angie Lewin
Ballindalloch Card | product
Designed by Angie Lewin
Speypath Card | product
Designed by Angie Lewin
Notecards NL45 | product
'Speypath' and 'Ballindalloch'
Notecards NL46 | product
'Moonlit' and 'Clocks'
Notecards NL47 | product
'Red Meadow' and 'Clifftop III'
Notecards NL24 | product
'Fritillary' and 'Hyacinth'
Plug Plants by the Tray | product
Each tray holds 135 plugs (27cc) of the same species - they are not mixed trays.
Winter Lapwings | product
Designed by Robert Gillmor
Water Birds Notecards | product
Boxed set of 6 notecards of Water Birds - Printmaker cards
Angie Lewin Notecards | product
Boxed set of 6 Angie Lewin notecards.
Guelder Rose | product
Not actually a rose - this deciduous shrub has pretty white flowers in early summer...
Hornbeam | product
A native tree, but most commonly found in southern England...
Oak | product
Deciduous native tree which plays host to hundreds of different insect species...
Beech | product
Wonderful for hedgerows as the leaves turn a beautiful russet brown in autumn...
Thornless Hedge | product
A collection of 25 bare-root plants of 5 different hedgerow species, 60-90cm in height, sufficient to plant a double row hedge 5 metres long.
Plantain Print | product
Limited edition (of 50) prints of lino cuts made by Sarah Robinson.
Teasel Print | product
Limited edition (of 50) prints of lino cuts made by Sarah Robinson - unframed.
Spiral guards - 45cm | product
Essential if you are plagued by rabbits!
Bamboo canes | product
Canes are used to support the tree or hedge plant and the spiral guard.
Harebell | product
Clusters of beautiful, delicate blue flowers...
Quaking Grass | product
Delicate perennial grass that quakes with the slightest breeze...
Meadow mix for Acid Soils | product
A wild flower and grass seed mix suitable for acid soils...
Oxlip | product
Pretty woodland perennial flower found mostly in dampish soil in East Anglia...
Gold Frankincense & Myrrh Soaps | product
A pack of 3 wonderful 50g soaps...
Flowering Lawn Seed Mix | product
A range of grass and flower species...
Wildflower Turf | product
Rolls of turf sown with native wild flowers and grasses...
Soap and Seeds in a Jute Pouch | product
Hand-made soap and a pack of Cornfield Annuals seed in a natural jute pouch - a great gift
Seeds and Soap in a Jute Pouch | product
A pack of Cornfield Annuals seed and a hand-made soap in a natural jute pouch - a great gift
Wood Anemone in the green | product
Intense white flowers brighten a woodland floor...
Spiral guards - 60cm | product
Essential if you are plagued by rabbits!
Bluebell bulbs in the green | product
The native Bluebell has violet blue flowers and a glorious scent...
Daffodil bulbs in the green | product
The Wild Daffodil is a smaller, more delicate plant than the garden daffodil...
Snowdrop bulbs in the green | product
Snowdrops are so-called because they often flowered when there was still snow on the ground.
Ramsons in the green | product
Ramson, or Wild Garlic, is an attractive plant which smells strongly of garlic...
Hedge Bedstraw | product
This perennial plant has frothy clusters of small white flowers...
Plug plant test page | product
Test page
Garlic Mustard/Hedge Garlic | product
Garlic Mustard is also known as Hedge Garlic or Jack-by-the-Hedge
Bees & Insects Meadow Mix | product
A mix which will attract bees and other insects...
Alliums & Fennel Card | product
Alliums & Fennel greetings card designed by Angie Lewin
Seeding Advice | content
The poorer your soil the richer the meadow will be...
Advice on planting of Bulbs | content
A season of promise...
Plug Plants Care Instructions | content
Care instructions for wild flower seedlings...
Grassland Wildflowers | content
Covers the use of seed and plants to create wildflower grasslands.
Woodland Wildflowers | content
Sets out the exciting new area of enriching the field layer with wild flowers under tree shade.
Woodland Seed Mixes | content
Details include number of seed per m and the seed rate.
Native Orchids | content
Native Orchids have only recently been propagated, using the techniques developed by the Sainsbury Laboratory at Kew, and this article explains where they should be planted and their subsequent management.
Wildflower Specifications | content
Enables the designer to find out the environmental and management needs of our most popular wild flowers and their value to butterflies.
Butterfly Table | content
Sets out for our native butterflies their larval food sources and their preferred nectar sources.
Publications | content
An order form for printed copies of some of our specialist Publications.
Soil Analysis Service | content
In order to help with plant selection and guidance for subsequent site management we provide a Soil Analysis Service.
Order Form | content
Can be used for ordering, or for a quote.
tools | content
How to order | content
Deliveries | content
Hedgerow Planting Advice | content
Hedgerow Planting Advice
Hedgerow Planting Advice | content
Hedgerow Planting Advice