Wild Garlic Bulbs in The Green | Allium ursinumWild Garlic Allium ursinum Common names include, ramsons, cowleek, buckrams, wood garlic and bear's garlic. The small white flowers on stems and lance shaped dark green leaves of this native perennial are a common sight spread across woodland floors from February to June. Quick to naturalise, wild garlic will thrive in either full sun or dappled shade. With a distinctive pungent smell of garlic, all parts of wild garlic plants are edible and can be

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Hazels’ distinctive yellow male catkins appear in clusters before the leaves from January to March and the nuts ripen in the autumn

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This native perennial wildflower has pretty bluish purple domed flowers on long stems and is a favourite of cottage garden borders and informal wildlife gardens

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are enjoyed by many birds including goldfinches

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Also known as black knapweed or common knapweed

Devil's bit scabious is a small native perennial wildflower with pincushion lilac blue flowers which is commonly sighted in damp meadows

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they are adaptable and also grow well in full sun

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