Cowslip Seeds Primula veris – is a familiar and popular plant, useful for creating a spring flowering meadow. The nodding yellow flowers of the native British variety appear on short stems in April and look delightful blowing in a spring breeze. Flowering is just before the start of the season’s main grass growth, which make cowslips particularly suitable for a flowering lawn. Native Cowslips will grow in sunlight or semi-shade and are suitable for open woods, orchards and road verges. They have a preference for chalk and limestone but will tolerate a wide range of other soils. Cowslips produce a strong scent and will attract bees. In the wild Cowslips are a host plant to to the Duke of Burgundy butterfly that will lay its eggs on the plant. They look best growing alongside other spring flowering plants, such as Red Campion, Lawn Daisy, Bluebells and Greater Stitchwort.