table of contents
- Types from A - E
- Types from F - J
- Types of K - M
- Types of N - R
- Types of S - V
- Types from W - Z
- frequently asked Questions
A race Although it looks pretty, it makes little sense from an ecological point of view. Much more valuable, especially for the starving insect world, is a colorful meadow of flowers. We introduce you to 37 suitable perennial flowers and their seeds.
In a nutshell
- native, robust wild shrubs are ideal
- need almost any sunny location
- Mix seeds of suitable species and sow directly in the field
- no advance necessary
- Light germs, therefore do not cover with soil
Types from A - E
Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis)
- Perennial / Annual: perennial flowers
- Height: 30 to 100 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: dry to fresh, calcareous
- Flowering period: May to August
- Flower: purple-blue, similar Scabiosis
- Special features: bee-friendly
Note: The widespread species of the cardiac family (Dipsacaceae) is very undemanding in terms of soil and should not be missing from the seeds: its flowers attract numerous insects at.
Perennial flax (Linum perenne)
- Perennial / Annual: perennial flowers
- Height: 30 to 60 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: dry, well-drained, moderately rich in nutrients
- Flowering period: June to August
- Flower: sky-blue cup-shaped flowers
- Special features: bee-friendly
Note: The type is also called Perennials-Lein known.
Barbara's herb (Barbarea vulgaris)
- Perennial / annual: every two years
- Height: 30 to 90 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: preferably on nitrogenous soils
- Flowering period: May to July
- Blossom: yellow grape blossoms
- Special features: edible, slightly hot-tasting leaves
Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria)
- Perennial / Annual: perennial flowers
- Height: 80 to 180 centimeters
- Location: sunny to partially shaded
- Soil: fresh to moist, rich in nutrients
- Flowering period: June to August
- Blossom: purple-pink flower panicles
- Special features: valuable bee pasture
Real chamomile (Matricaria recutita)
- Perennial / annual: annual, self-sowing
- Height: 30 to 50 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: normal garden soil
- Flowering period: May to August
- Flower: white cup-shaped flowers
- Special features: well-known medicinal plant
Sweet clover (Melilotus officinalis)
- Multi-year / annual: two-year to multi-year
- Height: 40 to 150 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: undemanding, but rather dry
- Flowering period: July to September
- Flower: yellow butterfly flowers
- Special features: insect-friendly, medicinal plant
Types from F - J
Dyer's chamomile (Anthemis tinctoria)
- Perennial / Annual: perennial flowers
- Height: 30 to 60 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: dry, sandy, mineral
- Flowering period: June to September
- Flower: bright yellow cup-shaped flowers
- Special features: previously used as a dye plant
Note: The species, also known as dyer's chamomile, is very suitable for rock gardens.
Daisies (Bellis perennis)
- Perennial / Annual: perennial flowers
- Height: 5 to 20 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: nutrient-rich, well-drained
- Flowering period: March to November
- Flower: white cup-shaped flowers
- Special features: particularly long flowering time
Tip: The daisy, also known as the thousand beautiful, grows almost everywhere and almost always blooms - even in mild winters.
Common adder head (Echium vulgare)
- Perennial / annual: two-year wild shrub
- Height: 60 to 80 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: dry, sandy
- Flowering period: June to September
- Flower: bright blue flower spikes
- Special features: valuable insect pasture
Tip: Once you have planted the seeds of the native wild shrub, they will reliably seed themselves and keep coming back.
Hawkweed (Hieracium aurantiacum)
- Height: 10 to 30 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: poor, dry
- Flowering period: June to July
- Flower: orange-red cup-shaped flowers
- Special features: excellent bee pasture
Note: The native perennial with the pretty flowers spreads out like a carpet.
Horn clover (lotus corniculatus)
- Perennial / annual: perennial perennial
- Height: 30 to 50 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: sandy to loamy
- Flowering period: May to September
- Flower: yellow, umbel-like
- Special features: valuable forage plant for insects
Note: Once you have planted the seeds, the plants will reliably seed themselves.
St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum)
- Height: 30 to 70 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: normal garden soil
- Flowering period: June to August
- Flower: golden yellow cup-shaped flowers
- Special features: bee-friendly, well-known medicinal plant
Maiden in the Green (Nigella damascena)
- Perennial / annual: annual, self-sowing
- Height: 40 to 50 centimeters
- Location: sunny to partially shaded
- Soil: moderately rich in nutrients
- Flowering period: June to September
- Flower: blue, white or pink
- Special features: many varieties in different colors
Types of K - M
Carthusian Carnation (Dianthus carthusianorum)
- Perennial / annual: perennial wild perennial
- Height: up to 60 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: sandy, well drained
- Flowering period: June to September
- Flower: purple cup-shaped flowers
- Special features: ideal for rock gardens
Note: In Austria the species is also known as stone carnation.
Corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas)
- Perennial / annual: annual
- Height: 50 to 60 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: sandy to moderately nutritious, dry
- Flowering period: May to July
- Flower: red cup-shaped flowers
- Special features: valuable nectar or pollen plant
Note: The well-known poppy not only grows in fields and on the edges of wilderness, but also in flower meadows. There the bulging fruit capsules reliably seed themselves.
Lesser ormennig (Agrimonia eupatoria)
- Height: 40 to 50 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: poor
- Flowering period: June to August
- Flower: yellow
- Special features: bee-friendly, native wild shrub
Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)
- Height: 40 to 70 centimeters
- Location: sunny to partially shaded
- Soil: nutrient-rich, well-drained
- Flowering period: June to October
- Flower: bright blue
- Special features: valuable bee pasture
Cuckoo carnation (Lychnis flos-cuculi)
- Perennial / annual: perennial wild perennial
- Height: 10 to 60 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: fresh, humic to sandy-humic
- Flowering period: May to July
- Blossom: pink-red panicle flowers
- Special features: ideal for the edge of a pond
Catchfly (Silene noctiflora)
- Perennial / annual: annual
- Height: 30 to 100 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: poor, dry
- Flowering period: June to September
- Flower: pale pink cup-shaped flowers
- Special features: leaves and young shoots are edible
Note: Although this species is not perennial either, it reproduces reliably itself via numerous well-developed seeds and therefore keeps coming back.
Types of N - R
Evening primrose (Oenothera biennial)
- Perennial / annual: every two years
- Height: 50 to 100 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: dry, well-drained
- Flowering period: June to September
- Flower: yellow cup-shaped flowers
- Special features: bee-friendly
Note: The bright yellow flowers of the evening primrose only open in the evening hours.
Ox-eye (Buphthalmum salicifolium)
- Perennial / Annual: perennial flowers
- Height: 50 to 60 centimeters
- Location: sunny to partially shaded
- Soil: poor, stony to clayey
- Flowering period: June to September
- Flower: golden yellow cup-shaped flowers
- Special features: native nectar or pollen plant
Note: The pretty flower is also known as gold marguerite because of its attractive blossoms.
Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare)
- Height: up to 130 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: fresh
- Flowering period: July to September
- Flower: yellow button flowers
- Special features: valuable bee and insect pasture
Red clover (Trifolium pratense)
- Perennial / Annual: perennial flowers
- Height: 15 to 60 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: fresh, nutritious, profound
- Flowering period: June to August
- Flower: pink flower balls
- Special features: valuable forage plant for insects and other animals
Marigold (Calendula officinalis)
- Perennial / annual: annual
- Height: up to 60 centimeters
- Location: sunny to shady
- Soil: sandy to loamy, moderately rich in nutrients
- Flowering period: May to October
- Flower: yellow or orange flower heads
- Special features: well-known medicinal plant
Note: Marigolds also seed themselves: If you are not careful, individual specimens can quickly turn into a whole marigold carpet.
Red light carnation (Silene dioica)
- Perennial / annual: biennial perennial
- Growth height: up to 90 centimeters
- Location: sunny to partially shaded
- Soil: nutrient-rich, fresh to moist
- Flowering period: April to October
- Flower: red or pink cup-shaped flowers
- Special features: ideal for the pond edge
Types of S - V
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
- Height: 30 to 50 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: fresh, rich in humus
- Flowering period: June to August
- Flower: white umbellate flowers
- Special features: spreads strongly
Note: In addition to the native wild species, there are now various cultivated forms that bloom in different colors. ‚paprika‘For example blooms vigorously pink-red, 'Terracotta' orange-yellow. 'Pretty Belinda' even glows in purple tones.
Soapwort (Saponaria officinalis)
- Perennial / annual: perennial
- Growth height: up to 80 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: rich in humus
- Flowering period: June to September
- Blossom: white or pink umbels, slightly fragrant
- Special features: multiplies / spreads via rhizomes
Tip: These perennial flowers are valuable, native nectar or pollen plants that should not be missing on any flower meadow.
Centaury (Centaurium erythraea)
- Perennial / annual: every two years
- Height: 20 to 30 centimeters
- Location: sunny to partially shaded
- Soil: dry to fresh, humic
- Flowering period: June to September
- Flower: pink
- Special features: not that uncomplicated
Types from W - Z
White sweet clover (Melilotus albus)
- Perennial / annual: every two years
- Height: 30 to 150 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: undemanding, moderately dry
- Flowering period: June to October
- Flower: white
- Special features: valuable insect nutrient plant, abundant together
Meadow knapweed (Centaurea jacea)
- Perennial / annual: perennial wild shrub
- Height: 30 to 60 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: poor, poor in humus
- Flowering period: June to September
- Flower: purple, similar to cornflower
- Special features: bee-friendly
Tip: In autumn, this species retreats to its underground rhizomes to overwinter. Aboveground, the withered plant can be cut off close to the ground.
Meadow Bellflower (Campanula patula)
- Perennial / annual: every two years
- Height: 25 to 60 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: sandy-humic, fresh
- Flowering period: May to July
- Flower: light purple bell-shaped blossoms
- Special features: valuable bee pasture, sows itself
Meadow marguerite (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum)
- Perennial / annual: perennial
- Height: up to 60 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: normal garden soil
- Flowering period: May to June
- Flower: white cup-shaped flowers
- Special features: bee pasture
Tip: This native wild perennial reproduces easily by self-sowing, but can also be divided and then planted separately.
Meadow sage (Salvia pratense)
- Perennial / Annual: perennial flowers
- Height: 40 to 60 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: poor, sandy, calcareous
- Flowering period: June to August
- Blossom: whorls of flowers in violet, pink; Blue or white
- Special features: valuable, native nectar or pollen plant
Meadow cranesbill (Geranium pratense)
- Height: 60 to 70 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: normal garden soil
- Flowering period: June to July
- Flower: violet-blue cup-shaped flowers
- Special features: richly blooming, insect-friendly (v. a. Bees and bumblebees)
Wild teasel (Dipsacus sylvestris)
- Height: 150 to 200 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: rich in humus and nutrients, fresh to moist
- Flowering period: June to August
- Flower: purple or blue piston-like flowers
- Special features: valuable, native nectar or pollen plant, medicinal plant
Wild carrot (Daucus carota)
- Perennial / annual: every two years
- Growth height: up to 100 centimeters
- Location: sunny
- Soil: sandy, lime-loving
- Flowering period: June to October
- Flower: white umbellate flowers
- Special features: valuable, native nectar or pollen plant (v. a. for butterflies)
Excess flower (Chrysanthemum segetum)
- Perennial / annual:
- Growth height: up to 70 centimeters
- Location: sunny to partially shaded
- Soil: normal garden soil, rather dry
- Flowering period: June to October
- Flower: yellow cup-shaped flowers
- Special features: local field wild herbs with a particularly long flowering time
frequently asked Questions
First of all, choose different types of flowers that are suitable for the intended location. The meadow flowers do not have to be perennial, even self-sowing, annual species come back reliably every year. Mix the seeds in a bowl. The seed sachets also contain information on how many seeds can or can be spread on one square meter. should.
You advise the soil for the flower meadow in advance as if you wanted to create a new lawn. Dig up the area provided for it spade-deep, crumble the lumps of earth as finely as possible and carefully level the ground. If necessary, the floor can also be improved, e.g. B. with sand or humus. The seed mixture is sown directly on the prepared soil, lightly raked in and kept moist. It is not necessary to pull it forward on the window sill.
Ideally, you should create the wildflower meadow as early as autumn, as most of the native wild shrubs presented here need a longer cold period to break the sprout inhibition. You can also use purchased seeds in spring, ideally at mild temperatures from March. In addition, such a meadow can be laid out for the entire vegetation period up to October.
