Jonathan, Nuthurst Community Allotment, April 2021
This is a list of Dave Goulson’s sixteen favourite garden plants for pollinators…if you happen to have any in your garden, we would love it if you would bring one with you when you visit the allotment!
Bush vetch, Vicia sepium
Catmint, Nepeta racemose
Plume thistle, Cirsium rivulare ‘Atropurpureum’
Comfrey, Symphyticum officinale, ‘Bocking 14’
Dahlia, ‘Bishop of Llandaff’
Field scabious, Knautia arvensis
Meadow cranesbill, Geranium pratense
Giant hyssop, Agastache foeniculum, ‘Blackadder’, Blue Fortune’, ‘Blue Boa’
Lavender, Lavendula x intermedia, ‘Gros bleu’
Lungwort, Pulmonaria, ‘Blue Ensign’ or ‘Trevi Fountain’
Marjoram, Origanum vulgare
Pussy willow, Salix caprea
Sicilian honey garlic, Allium siculum
Sneezewort, Helenium, ‘Moerheim Beauty’
Thyme, Thymus polytrichus subsp. Britannicus
Viper’s bugloss, Echium vulgare
