My garden is over run with Ajuga, not sure if it's the one you want, it grows wild everywhere. If you can post a pic of what you want, I can see if it's mine.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Here goes, I'm going to try and insert / add three images that I've found that best show what I'm looking for.
So far this morning I've had three mail responses from those businesses / people and garden centres / nurseries here and I have had two positive responses, one from Graham Bell who says he has them but getting them is a problem. Natural Surroundings in Norfolk say they have them, I've emailed for a postal quote and I'm still awaiting a response.
Mine is very wild, it just covers the ground and spreads everywhere! good ground cover. Unfortunately the leaves on mine are a bronze/ red colour so maybe that not what you want.
you are very welcome to a couple of handfuls if you want it.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
The Native Bugle although not a rampant plant does spread fairly quickly. I'm wanting the plant to provide ground cover and flowers for a number of butterfly's that visit the garden.
I have a resident Holly Blue colony in the garden, I also get Orange Tips, Brimstone, Speckled Wood and Comma regularly every year. The Orange Tip and Brimstone crash through several times a day and I'm hoping to get them to pop in and stay for a while. I also want to plant as far as possible British Native wild flowers as part of what is starting to become a very nice country cottage garden.
Being very much into wildlife, specifically birds and mammals I'm hoping for a wildlife garden using native plants as far as possible.
Our british native Bugle is proving to be a big challenge, one I want to crack this year even if it means taking wild plant material or seed which is an option I have as a very last desperate choice.
If it brings in wildlife especially those butterfly's listed here and others it can be as rampant as it likes. I'm also planting, Cuckoo Flower, Betony, Fleabane and Red Valerian this year.
Bugle grows wild in my boggy 'wilderness' area between our sheep fields, not part of my garden as it is impossible to walk there for most of the year, though I have extended the range of wildflowers already present. You only see it when it is in flower as it is otherwise completely hidden by great willow herb, marsh marigold and red campion, along with nettles and marsh thistles. After all the rain we have had here even the ordinary ground is completely saturated and I would vanish without trace if I tried to reach the bit where the bugle grows! There are always butterflies over this area in summer, mostly small whites and orange tips, we are too high and cold to be much more than marginal for many species apart from the ones that need nettles - we have plenty of those! I have betony, it is a good choice, popular with both whites and browns. I would suggest scaious too, it was never without a cloud of insects all summer, and though it is not a native, erysimum |Bowles' Mauve is also a top favourite - bees and butterflies don't care if their food is native as long as it is plentiful.
I already have Scabious and Bowles Mauve well established and doing well. I have several other good plants too establishing themselves.
I understand that bees and butterflies don't altogether care whether food is native or not but as a keen conservationist though I want to try to use native british plants as far as possible firstly.
If I message you in say a two months time, would you be prepared to help me out with a few plants then?
Natural Surroundings Nursery in Norfolk have what I want and a very good price too but say they don't do mail order and therefore can't help me a shame really a very good price at £2.50 a 90cm pot. Never Mind.
Graham Bell in Scotland seems very keen to help but I'm of the impression my order is far too small and too much trouble and I have to say pricey at £4 per 2ltr pot. But he does have what I want. Trying to get him to send plants Bare Root to cut costs etc. Awaiting a decision. He claims he can supply all my other plants too that I want this year but again seems very pricey. This may all fall through yet.
Graham Bell in Scotland turned out to be a total waste of time indeed, won't go into why here but BE AWARE and Stay clear?????????? OMG!
Emailed several, lots of nurseries in all four corners of the UK and one replied and gave me a phone number, that's all and I phoned it and I got a British Wild Flower Plant Specialist, a retailer specialising specifically and only in Native British Wild Flowers.
Thought my order would be far too small for them to be bothered but no, they were extremely helpful and friendly and I have everything I need from one single supplier at a very reasonable price too. www.wildflowers.uk Well happy.
Thank you all those here that have offered help etc.
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My garden is over run with Ajuga, not sure if it's the one you want, it grows wild everywhere. If you can post a pic of what you want, I can see if it's mine.
Thank you Lyn,
Here goes, I'm going to try and insert / add three images that I've found that best show what I'm looking for.
So far this morning I've had three mail responses from those businesses / people and garden centres / nurseries here and I have had two positive responses, one from Graham Bell who says he has them but getting them is a problem. Natural Surroundings in Norfolk say they have them, I've emailed for a postal quote and I'm still awaiting a response.
I'll get there in the end.
Lyn I'm hoping you can help too, fingers crossed.
Mine is very wild, it just covers the ground and spreads everywhere! good ground cover. Unfortunately the leaves on mine are a bronze/ red colour so maybe that not what you want.
you are very welcome to a couple of handfuls if you want it.
Sorry Lyn, you're right, your Bugle is another variant, don't know which one though.
Thank you for trying though.
No probs Mark, don't think you would want it really, it's so rampant, I dig out bin fills of it every year
The Native Bugle although not a rampant plant does spread fairly quickly. I'm wanting the plant to provide ground cover and flowers for a number of butterfly's that visit the garden.
I have a resident Holly Blue colony in the garden, I also get Orange Tips, Brimstone, Speckled Wood and Comma regularly every year. The Orange Tip and Brimstone crash through several times a day and I'm hoping to get them to pop in and stay for a while. I also want to plant as far as possible British Native wild flowers as part of what is starting to become a very nice country cottage garden.
Being very much into wildlife, specifically birds and mammals I'm hoping for a wildlife garden using native plants as far as possible.
Our british native Bugle is proving to be a big challenge, one I want to crack this year even if it means taking wild plant material or seed which is an option I have as a very last desperate choice.
If it brings in wildlife especially those butterfly's listed here and others it can be as rampant as it likes. I'm also planting, Cuckoo Flower, Betony, Fleabane and Red Valerian this year.
Bugle grows wild in my boggy 'wilderness' area between our sheep fields, not part of my garden as it is impossible to walk there for most of the year, though I have extended the range of wildflowers already present. You only see it when it is in flower as it is otherwise completely hidden by great willow herb, marsh marigold and red campion, along with nettles and marsh thistles. After all the rain we have had here even the ordinary ground is completely saturated and I would vanish without trace if I tried to reach the bit where the bugle grows! There are always butterflies over this area in summer, mostly small whites and orange tips, we are too high and cold to be much more than marginal for many species apart from the ones that need nettles - we have plenty of those! I have betony, it is a good choice, popular with both whites and browns. I would suggest scaious too, it was never without a cloud of insects all summer, and though it is not a native, erysimum |Bowles' Mauve is also a top favourite - bees and butterflies don't care if their food is native as long as it is plentiful.
Thank you Buttercupdays,
I already have Scabious and Bowles Mauve well established and doing well. I have several other good plants too establishing themselves.
I understand that bees and butterflies don't altogether care whether food is native or not but as a keen conservationist though I want to try to use native british plants as far as possible firstly.
If I message you in say a two months time, would you be prepared to help me out with a few plants then?
To follow up.........
Natural Surroundings Nursery in Norfolk have what I want and a very good price too but say they don't do mail order and therefore can't help me a shame really a very good price at £2.50 a 90cm pot. Never Mind.
Graham Bell in Scotland seems very keen to help but I'm of the impression my order is far too small and too much trouble and I have to say pricey at £4 per 2ltr pot. But he does have what I want. Trying to get him to send plants Bare Root to cut costs etc. Awaiting a decision. He claims he can supply all my other plants too that I want this year but again seems very pricey. This may all fall through yet.
Ever hopeful though.
Update...
Graham Bell in Scotland turned out to be a total waste of time indeed, won't go into why here but BE AWARE and Stay clear?????????? OMG!
Emailed several, lots of nurseries in all four corners of the UK and one replied and gave me a phone number, that's all and I phoned it and I got a British Wild Flower Plant Specialist, a retailer specialising specifically and only in Native British Wild Flowers.
Thought my order would be far too small for them to be bothered but no, they were extremely helpful and friendly and I have everything I need from one single supplier at a very reasonable price too. www.wildflowers.uk Well happy.
Thank you all those here that have offered help etc.