Cottage garden collection
cottage garden collection
- Position: full sun
- Soil: poor, well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: average
- Hardiness: fully hardy
These wildflowers are all ideal for the cottage garden, where they can be used to create swathes of purple, blue and white flowers in summer. They have been selected, not only for their beauty and form, but also for their ability to attract birds, bees, butterflies and moths.
One packet containing 2 grams of seeds will cover approximately 2 square meters.
The collection contains:
cornflower – Centaurea cyanus
evening primrose - Oenothera biennis
foxglove - Digitalis purpurea
lupin - Lupinus polyphyllus
ox-eye daisy - Leucanthemum vulgare
teasel - Dipsacus fullonum - Garden care: Rake the soil well to form a fine tilth and then sow seeds, scattering them evenly before raking them in and firming down. Wildflowers prefer poor soils so avoid using fertilisers. Keep them well watered initially and remove any weeds if they appear. After they have finished flowering, do not cut the old plants back until they have scattered scattered their seed as this may result in another crop of flowers in the following year.
- Sow: March - October
- Flowering: June - September
- Harmful if eaten
Eventual height & spread
Goes well with
Nepeta × faassenii
£9.991000000973
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- Will these seeds flower in the first year?
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gardendude
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Hello, This collection does include some annuals, so there is a good chance that you will have some flowers this year (provided you get them sown pretty quickly), howver it is next year that you will really start to get a good show.
Helen
- Can you tell me the best way to plant these seeds - can I just rake and sow?
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Blossom
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Ideally the seeds should be sown in Spring or Autumn into a well-raked seed bed. Scatter the seed rake lightly and firm down well. Keep well watered and weeded in the early stages. There is sufficient seed in this packed to cover two square metres.
Helen
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