If you really want to bring your garden to life and encourage bees, butterflies and all kinds of helpful wildlife, there's simply no better way than by adding some native wild flowers. 

Not only will you get to enjoy some of our most spectacularly beautiful flowers (which are easy to grow and generally need little maintenance), but you will also be helping sustain our dwindling populations of pollinating insects.

Within the last 60 years we've destroyed 98% of our meadows, half our broadleaved woodland, and thousands of miles of hedgerows, mainly as a result of intensive farming, pesticides and herbicides, and poor land management.

It's time for change.

It really doesn't matter how small your garden, or even whether you have a garden at all, everyone can grow wildflowers, and the more of us that do, the greater the difference we can make to the future of the wildlife that depends on them.

As part of Shaun Barr Garden Services, Grow Wild Flowers has been borne from a passion for our native flora and a recognition of its vital importance in creating a rich biodiversity that helps sustain our pollinating insects and wildlife. This site is dedicated to helping you discover the sheer joy of growing our precious wild flowers - the jewels of the British countryside and an irreplaceable legacy we have almost lost. But it's not too late. Start making a difference today - grow wild flowers!

To find out more about work being done to protect our native plants in the wild visit Plantlife, the UK charity dedicated to speaking up for wild plants. Meanwhile, the following pages are here to help you get started with wildflower gardening.