Yarrow Seeds achilla millefolium – is an ideal general-purpose meadow plant that is adaptable to most soil types and has a wide range of habitats. In gardens it is a perfect plant to include in a summer meadow or flowering lawn where it competes well with other plants and grasses. Yarrow will attract many insects such as Bees, Butterflies and Ladybirds. Plants have attractive feathery foliage and produce cream or pink flowers from June to August. Yarrow looks best growing with other meadow plants that flower in high summer such as Oxeye daisies, Knapweeds, Mallows, Meadow Cranesbill and Scabious. Yarrow has many alternative names including dog daisy, fernweed, bad man`s plaything, bloodwort, carpenter`s weed, devil`s nettle, carpenter`s grass, soldier`s woundwort, squirrel tail, staunch grass, staunch weed, thousand-weed, and yarroway