Type: perennial
Height: 30 to 90 centimetres
From the Great Plains of North America, this incredible perennial can form a 2-metre taproot, allowing it to survive drought. The pink-purple flowerheads look like Mexican hats and attract bees in summer.
Type: perennial
Height: 30 to 90 centimetres
A non-native wildflower that has naturalised here, this old dye plant sends up wands of honey-scented primrose flowers that feed pollinators in summer. Deadhead to prevent its enthusiastic self-seeding!
Type: self-seeding biennial
Height: 1 to 1.5 metres
This Mexican campion is great for splashing dots of bright red through a border. Starry scarlet flowers on slender grey stems in summer and autumn. Sometimes sold as ‘Jack Flash’.