Description
Meadowsweet Seeds filipendula ulmaria – is a wetland plant that grows well on moist fertile soil and is found in water meadows and damp ditches where it attracts a variety of insects including bees, dragonflies and ladybirds. Meadowsweet typically grows to about 1 metre in height and produces cream coloured flowers from June to August that are sweetly scented. In gardens it can be introduced at the edge of a pond. Meadowsweet looks best growing amongst other wetland plants with similar flowering times for example, Purple loosestrife, Hemp agrimony, Gypsywort, Fleabane, Meadow rue and Water Mint. An alternative name for Meadow sweet is Queen of the meadows.