Seed Revolution, The Wild Wild Wet: Corncockle, White Campion, Yellow Iris and Wild Teasel: Do you own a pond? A lake? A bog? These wild native beauties will thrive there, attracting pollinators while adding elegance and fragrance worthy of Chanel

Original price was: £48.46.Current price is: £33.00.

Looking for wild flowers well suited to the wet? Seed Revolution’s Wild, Wild Wet Collection is for you. Do you own a pond? A lake? A bog? These beauties will thrive there.

You started with Shrek’s swamp but now, seeds sown, your pond is surrounded by Yellow Iris and White Campion … Elegance straight from New York Fashion week and smelling like the inner sanctum of Coco Chanel’s laboratoire in Paris.

The Wild, Wild Wet: 20g Corncockle, 20g White Campion, 3 packets Yellow Iris, 20g Wild Teasel. 20g for 10 sq metres.

A mix containing elegant but hardy native wild flowers which thrive in wetter conditions. Plant these and your garden will be a thriving pollinator paradise.

Corncockle: Agrostemma githago: Other names: corn pink, zizany, corn campion, githage
A pink and powerful annual that will bring a unique vibrancy to any garden. Brought to the UK during the Iron Age, it is now all but extinct, modern farming has sought to destroy the corncockle for its toxic qualities. The seed and leaves are in fact poisonous—and if ingested in large quantities can be deadly! But in the past, this dangerous little flower has been used as a symbol of revolution (hence why we love it!) It even gets a mention in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus as he talks of ‘the cockle of rebellion’. Their thick stems make them perfect for a cutting arrangement or pinned to a lapel as a mark of revolution!

White Campion: Silene latifolia. Other names: flower of the dead, white robin, thunder flower.
What do you actually want from a flower? You want smell. Guess what? You got it. Spicy, sweet and warm, to remind you of the Parisian lover you never had. You want beauty. This is elegance straight from the catwalk at New York fashion week, suddenly in your garden… White campion is another one of those flowers that comes alive in the evening. White campion is classy, it’s elegant, it’s sophisticated. Beautiful white evening flowers that are perfect for pollinators encouraging all sorts of wild into your garden and super easy to grow.

Yellow Iris: iris pseudacorus:
‘This long-lived perennial is perfect for wet habitats, thriving along watercourses, lakes, ponds and damp meadows. Blooming from June to August, its large yellow flowers will brighten up the dampest and darkest of wild spaces. A great choice for naturalising wet areas, and a fantastically hardy flower making it perfect for the lazy gardener looking for an easy, and dependable splash of golden yellow.’

Wild Teasel: Dipsacus fullonum: Other names: venus’ basin, water thistle.
‘Teasel is a good as get its for wildlife. The flowers attract a congregation of bees, butterflies and other insects. Whilst a variety of birds, especially goldfinches, are at an all-you-can-eat buffet. Starter, main and pudding, all teasel seed. A tall striking plant with a purple prickly bloom, while the base of the plant is designed to hold water. In Ireland this water cannot pass your lips, for it is forbidden drink, the wine of the fairies they say. I think, however, we all know this to be a myth, the Irish would never turn down a drink. The water can still be used for all you summer snifflers, if you find pollen problematic wash your eyes in the teasel water and your problems shall be gone. Easy to encourage, you’ll be left with a tall striking flower and an abundance of pollinators in your own little paradise.

20g Corncockle, 20g White Campion, 3 packets Yellow Iris, 20g Wild Teasel. 20g for 10 square metres.

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