• Eventual Height: 60cm
  • Eventual Spread: 60cm

Corn Cockle

Agrostemma githago

available within 2 weeks. size: 90 seeds

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  • Position: full sun
  • Soil: well-drained, preferably poor soil
  • Rate of growth: average
  • Flowering period: June to August
  • Flower colour: magenta-purple
  • Other features: lance-shaped, grey-green leaves
  • Hardiness: fully hardy

    A beautiful, magenta-purple annual wildflower, once a common sight in cornfields. This summer-flowering corn cockle is perfect for naturalising in a sunny wildflower or cottage garden. Performing best in poor, well-drained soil, the flowers are highly attractive to bees.

  • Garden care: When sowing seeds do not use a fertiliser since wildflowers prefer poor soils. Deadhead regularly to prolong flowering. In autumn cut the faded flowerheads down to the ground and compost the dead stems.

  • Goes well with: Knautia arvensis, Cardamine pratensis, Lonicera pericymenum, Briza media, Papaver rhoeas, Leucanthemum vulgare