Best plants for pollinators: Linaria purpurea, the purple toad-flax, the most beautiful garden weed скачать в хорошем качестве

Best plants for pollinators: Linaria purpurea, the purple toad-flax, the most beautiful garden weed

Linaria purpurea, the purple toad-flax, is a plant native of southern Italy but naturalized in many other countries including the UK where it has been grown as ornamental, but several times, as in my case, just appears in the garden at some point, apparently from nowhere. It is about 1-1.5 m tall (3-5 foot). Fully hardy in the UK as in most other temperate climate countries, it is adaptable to a wide range of soils and exposure, even if the plant really thrives in full sun. It produces masses of purple flowers, extremely small but loved by pollinators, it is not fragrant but the profuse blooming of this plant and its strong colour make it a focal point in my garden, particularly for bees and bumblebees that visit frequently its flowers. Each plants produces hundreds of seeds, so according to your preference, you might prefer to deadhead the plant in order to avoid unplanned spreading of the Linaria (this would also encourage reblooming) , or you might want to keep the seed pods developing in the plant and either harvesting the seeds yourself or allowing the plant self-seeding, because the plant is not very long lived. I hope that you enjoyed the video, and if you liked it and you would like to support my YouTube garden channel and have regular updates, it would be great if you would subscribe to my channel by clicking on the button "subscribe". Also, any comments, positive or negative, is very welcome as well as any of your enquiries, to which I will try to respond as soon as possible. Thanks for watching and I hope to see you in my next video.