Field Scabious

Knautia arvensis

• Position: full sun
• Soil: moderately fertile, well-drained, preferably alkaline soil
• Rate of growth: average
• Flowering period: July to September
• Flower colour: bluish-lilac
• Other features: highly attractive to bees
• Hardiness: fully hardy

  
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  Bluish-lilac, honeycomb-like flowerheads on slender stems from July to September and hairy, dull green leaves. This beautiful native field scabious was once used to treat scabies and other skin ailments - hence its common name. Highly attractive to butterflies and bees, it's perfect for naturalising in a sunny wildflower garden, mixed or herbaceous border.
  

• Garden care: When sowing seeds do not use a fertiliser since wildflowers prefer poor soils. In autumn after flowering cut the faded flowerheads down to the ground and compost the dead stems.
  
  
• Goes well with: Centaurea cynarus, Cardamine pratensis, Lonicera pericymenum, Briza media, Papaver rhoeas, Crataegus monogyna
  
  

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