Jon Pilling, If a Tree Falls, TP124, RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 2024, #RHSTattonPark
Plants List
Trees
Field Maple (Acer campestre)
Silver Birch (Betula Pendula)
Shrubs
Elder (Sambucus nigra)
Ferns
Hard Fern (Blechnum spicant)
Scaly Male Fern (Dryoptreris affinis)
Lady Fern (Athyrium felix femina)
Harts Tongue Fern (Asplenium scoloperidium)
Grasses
Wavy hair grass (Deschampsia flexuosa)
Blue Fescue (Festuca glauca)
Tufted Hair Grass (Deschampsia cespitosa)
Snow Rush (Luzula nivea)
Purple Moor Grass (Molinea caerulea)
Quaking grass (Briza media)
Wildflowers
Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis) – Larval foodplant of the Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth also used as an alternative foodplant by the Marsh Fritillary butterfly. Good for pollinators.
Common toadflax (Linarea vulgaris) - Larval food plant of the Toadflax Pug Moth, good for long tongued pollinators
Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra) – Larval food plant of the Knapweed Fritillary Moth, Good for pollinators
Tutsan (Hypericum androsaemum) – Good for pollinators
Spiny Restharrow (Ononis Spinosa) - Larval food plant for the Common Blue Butterfly
Perennials
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) – Good for pollinators especially hoverflies. Produces seeds for birds.
Ox eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) – Good for pollinators
Milky Bellflower (Campanula lactiflora ) – Good for pollinators
Goats Beard (Aruncus dioicus)
Burnet 'Crimson Queen (Sanguisorba officinalis) – Larval foodplant of the Burnet Dot Moth, Good for pollinators
Wildflower Turf
Agrimonia
Clinopodium vulgare
Campanula glomerata
Lotus corniculatus
Ranunculus acris
Silene vulgaris
Silene dioica
Silene latifolia
Daucus carota
Cichorium intybus
Salvia verbenaca
Trifolium pratense
Trifolium repens
Aquilegia
Cantaurea cyanus
Bellis perennis
Foeniculum vulgare
Pilosella aurantiaca
Aquilega vulgaris
Campanula rotundifolia
Scorzeroides autumnalis
Centaurea scabiosa
Malva neglecta
Malva moschata
Origanum vulgare
Viola tricolor
Dianthus deltoides
Papaver rhoeas
Lythrum salicaria
Lychmis flos-cuculi
Scabiosa columbaria
Jasione montana
Rumex acetosa
Dipsacus
Thymus serpyllum
Echium vulgare