I bought this last year as a small plant, with no clue what it would look like. (Pot luck). I planted it at the back of the border and it flowered quickly with maroon daisy like flowers reaching about 4 ft on quite strong stems. This year it is more vigorous with more stems and flowers of maroon and surprisingly some pale lilac coloured flowers. (a twofer). Yes you should deadhead for more flowers, but the dead heads look so attractive, like green stars that they are great to add to an indoor display. The bees adore this plant.

Katrina62

Cambridge

This is one of my favourite plants for the mid section of a perennial border. It is light and airy and mixes and weaves between other plants giving a pop of colour. The flowers last a long time and it repeat flowers from July to September. Nice informal plant

Burygardener

Midlothian

This little genius of a plant cant help but cheer-up A sunny corner with its deep and unual colour, this olabt gets the most comments from family and friends

Colly

London

Planted in a sunny, fertile site, struggled to flower, other Knautia's I have had produced weeks of flowering, so disappointed with this plant. But, will try again

Fran

London

I purchased these plants earlier in the year and they arrived healthy, well packaged and on time. They transferred from pots to their new garden position very well, no signs of stress, and flowered all summer. They are a lovely plant for bees and they give a nice pop of colour with height and transparency, similar to verbena. Although they need to be dead headed through out the season. Luckily this is one of my favourite jobs in the garden.

Jill

London

Very hardy plant. Easy to transplant from pots to chosen site. Grow easily in full sun or partial shade. Instant bee/butterfly food source.

Ed's mum

Lincs

I have 3 of these mid/back of the border. They've flowered throughout the summer. Love the dark pink flowers. I didn't stake them, so their long stems merged into other plants. Tolerated a bit of shade & have grown fast.

Gardening mum

Scottish Borders

I love these and bought 3 initially. One did brilliantly, beautiful reddish/burgandy flowers and lots of them, the others were a bit slower. This year two have come back really big clumps and I am buying more to use instead of my salvias which really don't seem to do so well. I am on chalk and they are in a sunny place.

Keen novice getting used to newish garde

South coast East

This is a lovely flower on wispy stems, but for some reason only survives one season in my garden

Wizlette

West Country

This is a lovely plant with a long flowering period.

SassieJ

East Anglia