In the UK, it is an offence under section 14(2) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to "plant or otherwise cause to grow in the wild" any plant listed in Schedule 9, Part II to the Act, which includes Japanese Knotweed and rootstock (Japanese Rose -Rosa rugosa) of cultivated roses pre 2000. See article in Dock Bistorts Page.

Just to add to your joy ... Schedule 8 lists plants that are protected - Section 13 2a) "selling, offering for sale, possessing or transporting" - to add to your offences.

This Site Map and Gallery is arranged differently to the others. You can find the wild flower in one of the 23 Wild Flower Galleries if

• you know its flower colour, click on the Page Numbers in the Wildflower Colour Wheel above, or
• you know its name, use
  Wild Flower Plant Index a-h,
  Wild Flower Plant Index i-p or
  Wild Flower Plant Index q-z
• you know which habitat it lives in, use
  Wild Flowers on Acid Soil Habitat Table,
  on Calcareous (Chalk) Soil,
  on Marine Soil,
  on Neutral Soil,
  is a Fern,
  is a Grass,
  is a Rush, or
  is a Sedge
• you know which family it belongs to, use
  Family Pages or Wild Flower Family Pages menu on the right
• you have seen its flower or seed, use
  Comparison Pages to identify it
• or look through the flower, foliage and habitat photos of the 1115 Wild Flower Plants in those Family Pages using the menu on the right - of which 297 have their own Description Pages linked from those Family pages

Each plant named in each of the Wildflower Family Pages:-

• may have a link to its Plant Description Page in its Common Name in one of those Wildflower Plant Galleries
• and will have links to external sites to purchase the plant or seed in its Botanical Name,
• links to external sites for photos in its Flowering Months and
• links to external sites for habitat details in its Habitat Column.

Website User Instructions

If a Plant Comparison Page or Wildlife on Plant Comparison Page has colour photographs of plants or wildlife on plants in it, then (o) is prefixed to that Comparison page title in the Navigation Box for that Section.

In order to compare plants by their attributes (flower colour, fruit or seed, or together with other plants), click on the appropriate attribute listed below the Site Map entry (the Comparison Pages are still under development, so some will have no photographic content and are therefore not listed in the Site Map). The text box below each thumbnail photo on each Comparison Page details the

• Plant Family Page (click on this to get to the Family Page, then click back arrow to get back to the Comparison Page),
• plant name,
• soil moisture (blue background indicates wet soil, white is moist and brown is dry) and
• plant height (border colour blue indicates 0-2 feet in height, green is 2-6 feet, red is above 6 feet).

You can obtain the Plant Description Page of a plant by clicking on the thumbnail photo of that plant in that Comparison Page.

Click on Plant Family Page Name in the sub-navigation box on the right side for photos and name of plants in its Plant Family Page. If you click on the Common Name in the Family Page, the Plant Description Page will be added; click back arrow to return to Plant Family Page.

The rarity of each plant as a wild plant in Britain is shown preceeding the Common Name in its Plant Description Page by the following star system:-

• No Star indicates a common and widely distributed plant like Marsh Marigold
• * for a plant that is only locally common like Grass of Parnassus
• ** for a scarce plant, which usually grow in limited areas like Crested Cow-wheat, but may be thinly scattered over a wide area like Narrow Helleborine
• *** are for real rarities, growing in only a few places, and usually rare even there like Cheddar Pink.

Bluestem Nursery provides the answer to "Why are ornamental grasses so popular?" and Comparison Chart for Ornamental Grasses with its
botanical name, common name,
height,
bloom height,
bloom period,
foliage colour/blade width,
ideal growing conditions,
season,
water requirement,
roots and
Zone.
"This info is derived from growing the grasses in their Zone 4/5 nursery in the USA. They have sandy-loam soil, with summers being hot and dry, and then they irrigate to mimic the ideal growing conditions."

and it provides Landscape Uses for Ornamental Grasses:-

• Drought Tolerant
• Shade Tolerant
• Salt Tolerant
• Evergreen
• Variegated or Coloured Foliage
• Low Growers - Front of Border
• Specimen Grasses
• Running Grasses (invasive)
• Rock Gardens
• North American Natives
• Sod-forimng or Slow-spreading Grasses (Not invasive)
• Woodland Edge
• For Dried Arrangements
• Alkaline Tolerant
• Acid Soil
• Rain Gardens
• Summer Inflorescence
• Spring Inflorescence
• Fall Colour
• For Screen or Hedge
• Woodland
• Moisture Tolerant

Nurseries that grow and sell plants to the public:-

If a plant is detailed in its own page in one of the Wildflower Plant Galleries and it occurs in one of their catalogues, then it is noted as being available from that nursery in the Comments Section of that plant's description page.

British Wild Flower Plants ( Burlingham Gardens, 31 Main Road, North Burlingham, Norfolk. NR13 4TA. Tel/Fax: 01603 716615 email office@wildflowers.co.uk website http://www.wildflowers.co.uk) is a family-run nursery started in 1986. They currently stock nearly 400 species of native plants.

John Chambers' Wild Flower Seeds ( 15 Westleigh Road, Barton Seagrave, Kettering, Northants. NN15 5AJ. Tel 01933 652562 Fax: 01933 652576 website John Chambers' Wild Flower Seeds) offers the country's largest and most comprehensive range of seeds for native British produced wild flower species and mixtures; wild, ornamental and cultivated grass species and mixtures. In addition, offers native British produced wild flower plants, seedlings and bulbs; associated books, posters and wallcharts. John Chambers' Wild Flower Garden at the Royal Showground, Stoneleigh, Kenilworth, Warwickshire is open to the public at both the Royal and Town and Country Shows. It shows how effectively plants from different habitats can be incorporated into garden settings. Above all, it demonstrates how colourful, attractive and suitable wild flowers are for use in gardens.

BritishFlora (Grange Farm, Widmer End, High Wycombe, Bucks. HP15 6AE. Tel 01494 718203 Fax 01494 718989 Email: info@britishflora.co.uk website BritishFlora ) is the leading provider of horticultural solutions to civil engineering problems encountered in major conservation, environmental, remediation, translocation and renewal schemes in habitats as diverse as highways, business parks, landfill sites, nature reserves, and the banks of tidal estuaries, rivers, canals, lakes and ponds as well as heath and salt marshes. With over 300 species held in stock (PDF list of available plants available from their Wildflower and Aquatic Plants Page of the Products and Services Section), they produce over 5 million native wild flower and aquatic plants including 1 million reeds annually.

Coblands Nurseries:-
Coblands Nurseries were founded in 1963 growing a wide range of shrubs, herbaceous, grasses, ferns and trees in the ‘coblands’ of Kent. The production nursery extends over 120 acres on a number of sites in and around Tonbridge, growing approximately a million plants at any one time.
www.best4plants.co.uk now brings this wealth of knowledge and expertise to the general public as well as the trade.