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Cornflower

£3.90

The annual Cornflower is a well known garden plant but rarely seen now in the wild. The Cornflower loves full sun and provides a fantastic display of rich blue flowers n tall stems. Plant in grassland, a lawn or in a container.  It is traditionally an annual of arable fields but to keep it coming back each year in the garden, let it seed and then dig over the soil in the spring. Or collect some seed  from the plants and resow in the Spring!

Centaurea cyanus
Annual
Blue
Sun
Height : 70cm
Flowering period : June – August
This is a good source of nectar : 

Description

The annual Cornflower is a well known garden plant but rarely seen now in the wild. The Cornflower loves full sun and provides a fantastic display of rich blue flowers n tall stems. Plant in grassland, a lawn or in a container.  It is traditionally an annual of arable fields but to keep it coming back each year in the garden, let it seed and then dig over the soil in the spring. Or collect some seed  from the plants and resow in the Spring!

Other features:
It can also be used as a natural dye plant.

Wildlife attracted:
In the height of summer the beautiful blue flowers attract hoverflies and parasitic wasps

Additional information

Size

9cm pot, 18 plug plants

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