Cornflower Seeds

(Price incl Vat + Delivery)

Cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus) are beautiful blue wildflowers rich in cultural history, popular for their use in gardens and floral arrangements.

This Pollenize booster packet of cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus) supports 131 pollinator species

• 28 bee species

• 68 Hover fly species

• 35 Butterfly species
  
  (1 insect uses cornflower as a food plant)

Boosters are only available to be added to the main packet.

• The booster packets contain 1 gram. This will be added to your main seed packet.

• Your main seed packet contains 5 grams and does 1 metre squared, each time you add 1 gram of a booster packet, you’re increasing the area coverage for this seed packet by 0.25 metres.

• For example, 10 grams will do 2 metres squared.

Our citizen science seed packets are informed by the data analysis of the following databases on the data.gov.uk website:

1. Plant-pollinator interactions database for construction of potential networks (all known pollinator-plant interactions on mainland GB)

2. Insect species richness for each plant species and insect-plant interactions from the Database of Insects and their Food Plants [DBIF] (over 60,000 insect- plant interactions with native plants)

Please Note: we cannot export seeds outside of the UK and we are unable to deliver to the Channel Islands, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man