cornflower

wild daffodil

scarlet pimpernel  

  

   

 

WHAT?
Instead of a conventional bouquet, would you give a gift of some wildflower plants, individually selected, labelled and growing in an attractive pot, ready for display? All the wild flowers shown here are native to Coventry and Warwickshire and are available through The Wildflower Patch.

The Wildflower Patch Offers

Choice of Posh, Plain or Plastic Pot already planted with your wildflower plants.
or
A range of over 20 wildflower plants and bulbs ready to plant in your garden, sold in packs of 6.

With additional options of             

• 1 wildflower plant which is native to your CV address.
• 1 plant which is listed as rare in the wild.  
• FREE Delivery within Coventry...And
• FREE advice and information concerning individual wildflowers, their favourite positions, planting on from pots and lots more...   

                                                            

 

 

    

 

betony              kidney vetch              pepper saxifrage

 

WHEN?

 The range of plants used by The Wildflower Patch has been selected to provide interest for almost all months of the year. Products are planned in line with each plant's natural flowering season. For a Christmas or New Year gift, for instance, you can buy Wild Daffodil and Star of Bethlehem bulbs, already growing in containers. These blooms can be followed by spring, summer and autumn flowers. If left to grow, Yarrow, which often gets cut short by the lawnmower, can still be displaying delicate pinks and creams in December!

Naturally, the winter months are quieter in terms of wildflower activity; after all every living plant and animal needs its rest period! You can contact The Wildflower patch at any time of the year to ensure you have a bright display of easy-to-maintain, minimum-attention-required wildflowers.

 

 

 

bee orchid           wild chamomile

 

WHERE?

All the wildflowers shown here have been identified as native to Coventry and Warwickshire and are available (while stocks last) through The Wildflower Patch. Deliveries can currently (2008) be made FREE to Coventry households. The Wildflower Patch sources materials as locally as possible. The plants are grown in specialist nurseries within the UK where seeds are gathered ethically and sustainably. The wildflowers planted in your Posh, Plain or Plastic Pot are growing in peat free compost, prepared from Coventry's green waste at Brinklow quarry. What's that phrase; "What goes around comes around"?

cut-leaved cranesbill                yarrow

WHO?

The Wildflower Patch is run by a small team and offers a personalised service. This means that, following discussion with each customer, products are individually tailored to ensure they are as suitable as possible for the intended recipient's age, lifestyle and available outdoor space. Plants are chosen every time to match the conditions of the space where they will live: Sun loving plants for a sunny spot, for instance, and shade loving for under a tree.

 

 

 

cuckooflower           saw-wort

WHY?

Personally, I am convinced that each of our city, as well as more rural, gardens can sustain a patch of wildflowers, even if just in a pot by the back door. After all before many of Coventry's areas were even dreamt of, what was here but meadows and lanes with wildflowers growing in and all around them? The ground we walk on and the soil in our gardens are the same as that in which wildflowers grew in the past, and they still can and do. And, unlike plants from garden centres, wildflowers just love poor soil, very little attention: to be left alone to do their thing...naturally. Even in the heat of July '06, I watered my pots of Birds Foot Trefoil, Wild Pansy and Wild Chamomile only once or twice a week and enjoyed the prettiest flowers all summer long. For me, the natural aroma from the latter takes some beating and contributed significantly to the idea for The Wildflower Patch!

Common sense, rather than academic study, tells me that native wildflowers are a crucial part of the whole natural system whereby insects, birds and, ultimately ourselves are sustained. We are demanding more and more of their space for buildings, roads and other developments, can we allow them a tiny bit of ours?

 

 

 

 

toadflax                 devil's bit scabious                     star of Bethlehem

HOW?

To explore further, discuss an order or simply for more information, contact The Wildflower Patch. You decide whether you require a Posh, Plain or Plastic Pot, already planted with your wildflower plants.

Alternatively, you may decide that you prefer to have wildflowers to plant in your garden. In this case, your plants will come in small, biodegradable plant pots. When you put the pot as well as the plant in the soil, no damage is caused to roots, the roots can grow as the pot disintegrates...and you avoid throwing away any plastic!

Just give us details of the additional options you'd like, a wildflower listed as rare in the wild, for example, or one which is listed as native to your address, and ensure that you are happy with the cost which we will agree on the 'phone. Prices start at from £15.00 and we accept payment on delivery (cash or cheque). All that remains for you to do is to make arrangements for delivery with us. You can then leave the rest to The Wildflower Patch!
 

penny royal           wild pansy              yellow pimpernel

Many thanks to photographers at http://www.british-wild-flowers.co.uk/ with whose generous permission these images are shown.

  

hare's foot clover   bird's foot trefoil   slender St John's wort

As with any gardening activity, please ensure that care is taken when involving young people, for  example, that hands are washed afterwards and that identity and safety of plant is known before consuming. Thanks for your interest. Tracey. (07712 224192).