Plant Passport Registration Number: GB147173
  
   
Ranunculus acris — Meadow Buttercup
 
Plants grown in 9cm pots.
 
Buttercups sometimes frighten gardeners because they have experienced Creeping Buttercup as a rapidly spreading weed in their garden, yet almost everyone has a nostalgic love for them, and this one is a perfectly well-mannered buttercup fitted to growing in gardens (some others are actually extremely choice - see different Ranunculus listings), seeding about a little but not excessively -you can cut down after flowering to prevent seeding and perhaps induce a later second show. A long-stalked upright perennial species with beautiful, bright, glossy yellow, bowl-shaped flowers in early summer. Excellent flower for pollinators like bees and butterflies. Generally pest-free.
 
Can be introduced to lawns in patches being converted to meadows; clear a little bit of grass around them until established and mow any time after flowering. If the grass is getting too long and is mowed before they have flowered, they will still come up again but usually flower shorter and later.
 
Foliage: Deciduous
 
Height: 60cm
Spread: 10 - 50cm in 2-5 years
 
Please read our notes before placing the order:
 
1. The pictures in this listing are examples of the available plant at maturity and do not indicate anything in regard to size of plant at the point of sale. You will receive an organically produced young plant grown in a 9cm pot for planting immediately or to grow on (pot removed, when possible, to reduce plastic waste)
2. Seasonal difference in plants: Please be aware if you are new to gardening, that the plants we supply are mostly herbaceous perennials and many go dormant in winter. You may receive what looks like an empty pot or piece of root. This will produce new growth in spring.
3. The date the Royal mail label is bought (tracking number added as sent against your orders) is the date your order is lined up for picking. It is likely to be put into the post a couple of days later.
 
Thank you.
Size of the plants
Plants are mostly grown in 9cm pots so sometimes there is a need to grow on for the first season to see a mature effect only in the second.
Some older supplied pots may be thick with stems but please note at the other extreme rather than not supply we sometimes send bare root divisions of the size we use for our own potting (continued since Covid stock shortage) usually these are pound or so cheaper than a grown pot. Tips for success are sent with all orders.
Slugs in Summer of 2024 (list deletions)
Most gardeners experienced severe damage from slugs and snails due to the extreme wet and a relatively mild winter. Some genera were not just damaged, but the extra stocks destroyed. We may reintroduce gradually some of the most valued, but others previously listed may remain absent for now.