Marina Christopher’s – Plants for Bees & other insects
- Aster ‘Little Carlow’
- Achilleas – any
- Solidago virgaurea – care needed as invasive
- S. rugose – good late clump former – non-invasive
- S. speciose – clump former
- Rudbeckia laciniate ‘Herbstonne’
- Eupatorium cannabium – native Hemp Agrimony
- E. maculatum – Joe Pye Weed
- Salvia verticillate
- Geranium ‘Rozanne’
- Persicaria amplexicaule ‘Firedance’, pink and white varieties, ‘Fat Domino’ & ‘Blackfield’ – all good for late summer
- Vernonia crinite
- Phlox paniculate
- Silphium perfoliatum
- Apiaceae – all the umbellifers good for flies and beetles
- Astrantia ‘Roma’ – is sterile so does not self seed Allium sphaerocephalum
- Allium ‘Summer Beauty’
- Actaea simplex & Cvs
- Colchicum
- Crocus – autumn flowering species
- Succicia pratensis – Devil’s Bit Scabious
- Scabiosa columbaria var. ochroleuca – cream flowers
- Scutellaria incana – late summer flowering Skull Cap
- Verbena hastate
- Verbena macdougalii
- Veronicastrum – many cultivars