Echium vulgare on biosolar roof, Essex, London. Installed and planted by P&P. Photo by A. Favell, P&P.

Echium vulgare has violet-blue trumpet flowers, produced on erect spotty (viper-like) stems May to Sept. The deep-tubed nectar-rich flowers are popular with longer tongued bees, butterflies and moths.
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A foraging bee on Anthyllis vulneraria a.k.a. Kidney vetch, on a biosolar roof in Essex, by P&P. By A. Favell, P&P.

Kidney vetch is a perennial with yellow flowers. Often prostrate. Likes well-drain substrates, so suits biosolar roofs. Popular with pollinators e.g. Wool carder bee; Small Blue Butterfly. Check out The Biosolar Plant Guide: biosolar-roofs.com/plants-for-b... #biosolar #biosolarroofs #biodiversity

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Silene dioica a.k.a. Red Campion photographed on biosolar roof in Essex, near London. Installed by P+P. © Andy Favell, P+P.

Silene dioica a.k.a. Red Campion
Being a woodland edge plant, Red Campion, thrives between the solar panels. Flowers April to September. Loved by long-tongued bumble-bees and hoverflies, and many moths.
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