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About Hogchester Farm

Hogchester is a nature reserve situated on the hills overlooking Charmouth.   We love wildflower meadows and run a small charity to fund seed collection and meadow restoration projects in Dorset.   Your purchase supports this work.  Our meadows were sown with local ancient stock so sowing our seed is a genuine act of heritage conservation.  You are welcome to visitor hogchester meadows in the flowering season (May June and July) and we have a holiday cottage that can you can come and stay in all year round.  Check us out at www.hogchester.com.

About our wildflower seed

Our seeds are sustainably hand harvested from the nature reserve at Hogchester and surrounding areas.  As such our seed is truly wild and not taken from agricultural monocultures.   Hand harvesting from individual wild plants ensures a diverse genetic mix of seeds that will often yield variations in color and other interesting phenotypes.   Sowing our seed is therefore a genuine act of biodiversity conservation.   Many of our seeds are complimentary in wildflower meadows establishment so check out the full range.   You can also trust that I will AUTOMATICALLY REFUND any excess postage on your order(s).

🌿 Bluebell Seeds (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) – Enchant Your Woodland Garden 🌿

Bring a touch of ancient magic to your garden with our native British Bluebell seeds – Hyacinthoides non-scripta. These iconic, violet-blue flowers have graced our woodlands for centuries, forming dense carpets of shimmering colour beneath the trees each spring.

🌸 Size & Structure:
Each graceful stem stands 20–40 cm tall, gently arching with a cascade of bell-shaped flowers, each one slightly nodding and sweetly scented. Their narrow, strap-like leaves form a soft green base, allowing the blooms to rise like a mist above the forest floor.

🕰️ When to Sow:
Sow fresh in summer (July–September) directly where you want them to naturalise. Bluebells are slow to establish but long-lived — patience will reward you with a spectacle that deepens year by year.

🌱 Growing Conditions:

• Prefers partial shade under deciduous trees or along north-facing borders

• Thrives in moist but well-drained soil

• Likes soils rich in leaf mould or organic matter

• Once established, bluebells are low-maintenance and deer-resistant

🌙 A Flower of Folklore:
In old Celtic tradition, bluebells were known as "fairy flowers." It was said that if you heard a bluebell ring, you were already under the enchantment of the fairy folk – a sound said to summon them to gatherings deep in the wood. To tread carelessly through a bluebell glade was once thought to bring bad luck, or worse — to vanish into the Otherworld.

🌼 Sow a patch of wonder — and let the wild return.

Summary

·         2025 seed stock.

·         Hand harvested from Hogchester Farm nature reserve.

·         Supporting meadows conservation.