Scabiosa columbaria | Lilac-Flowered Scabious Tea towel making it a popular choice

making it a popular choice for rock gardens and borders

The flowers of Salvia 'Black Knight' are particularly attractive to pollinators like bees and butterflies

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Loved by bees and pollinators

Scabiosa columbaria | Lilac-Flowered Scabious Tea towel making it a popular choiceScabiosa columbaria is a clump forming dainty perennial. In the summer the plants bear tall wiry stems that pop up above the finely cut leaves. The flowers are a very pretty, pale lilac colour in the typical petalled, pincushion style of Scabiosas although these flowers are smaller and more dainty than other varieties (it's also called small scabious, or dwarf pincushion plant). These gorgeous plants flower for weeks on end in late summer for months