Yarrow Native Wildflower Seed

ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM

Yarrow is ancient, tough, and quietly heroic. Flat white flower heads, feathery leaves, and a history so long it makes most garden plants look like they only just joined LinkedIn.

Named after Achilles, who was said to have used it to treat soldiers’ wounds, Yarrow has spent centuries being linked with healing, protection, and battlefield folklore. Which is a lot of responsibility for a plant that also looks lovely in a meadow and asks for almost nothing.

Bees, hoverflies, beetles, and other useful insects all visit the flowers. Yarrow just stands there in the sun, doing the work, attracting the troops, and looking like it has seen a few things.

Yarrow likes sunny spots, open ground, and free draining soil. It is tough, drought tolerant once growing, and great for meadow areas, banks, borders, and wildlife gardens.

Rip - Clear weeds, grass, and debris. Rake the soil so you have a loose, open surface.

Scatter - Scatter the seed thinly across the soil.

Sow - Press the seed gently into the surface so it makes contact. Do not bury it deeply.

When to sow - For best results sow from August to November. You can also sow from March to May.

Where to sow - Choose a sunny spot with free draining soil and low competition. Yarrow is especially useful in poorer soils, dry banks, and low maintenance wild areas.

After sowing, keep the soil lightly moist while the seeds get going, especially if the weather is very dry.

Once you can see green shoots, keep big weeds and thick grass away. Do not feed it. Yarrow is built for tougher conditions, not rich, over pampered soil.

Once growing well, it is low maintenance and can cope with dry spells. In meadow areas, cut after flowering and remove the cuttings to keep conditions better for wildflowers.

Yarrow usually flowers from June to September, producing flat white flower heads that are brilliant for hoverflies, bees, beetles, and other beneficial insects.

It typically grows around 20 to 80 cm tall, adding softness, structure, and a classic meadow look.

As a perennial, it can return year after year once happy. Tough, useful, historic, and wildlife friendly. The sort of plant that would survive the revolution, then calmly organise the field hospital.

Yes, Yarrow can grow well in pots.

Use a medium pot with drainage holes. Fill it with peat free, low nutrient compost mixed with sharp sand or grit to keep it free draining. Avoid rich compost. Wildflowers are not here for the luxury spa treatment.

Scatter the seed thinly, press it in gently, and place the pot in full sun. Keep lightly moist while the seeds get going. Once growing, water when the compost starts to dry out.

We want your seeds to grow. If you follow our sowing instructions, give them a fair chance, and they still do not grow, we’ll put it right.

Eligible customers can choose either a refund for the seeds that did not grow, or replacement seeds of the same value.

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