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Wildflower and Aquatic Plants

BritishFlora produces over 5 million native wild flower and aquatic plants including 1 million reeds annually at its 50ha Nursery in the heart of the Buckinghamshire countryside.

300 species held in stock

BritishFlora has been collecting seed and plant materials for over 20 years from UK sites. The Company also harvests seed from its own unimproved Saxon meadow.

With over 300 species grown, BritishFlora is able to fulfil most orders from stock and in any quantity, whether providing horticultural solutions to major new environmental contracts or re-supplying existing habitats. Typically, volume orders will be for reeds, sedges and grasses, and wetland, woodland/heathland, meadow and salt marsh species.

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Seed Collections

Where specialist solutions cannot be delivered from stock, BritishFlora will collect seed at source at no extra charge to ensure the genetic suitability of local plant material.

BritishFlora adheres to a strict code of practice governing seed collection. Collection of nationally rare species are undertaken in full compliance of regulatory frameworks. Where collections are made from SSSI, BritishFlora will do so with the appropriate licences from Natural England or equivalent bodies in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Floating Reedbeds

BritishFlora is a major supplier of aquatic plants to the UK's leading designer, manufacture and installer of floating reedbeds. By combining its unparalleled expertise in aquatic ecology, algae control and effluent treatments, BritishFlora is at the forefront of new applications for reedbed technology.