Description
Create a palette of colors in your garden with scarlet, purple, pink, white, yellow, and bicolored flowers combined with elegant, blue-green foliage. Butterflies enjoy their nectar. Excellent cut or dried flower; one flower per stem. The mild-clove-flavored petals make a colorful garnish to salads, desserts, and cold drinks. (The flower's central disk, while edible, can be bitter.)
Variety Info
- Family: Caryophyllaceae
- Native: Probably Mediterranean region
- Hardiness: Reliable perennial in USDA zones 6-9
- Exposure: Full sun
- Bloom Period: Summer
- Plant Dimensions: 18" tall
- Variety Info: 1"–3" mostly double blossoms in shades of scarlet, pink, purple, white, yellow, and bi-colors; sweet clove scent.
- Attributes: Cut Flower, Deer Resistant, Good for Containers
Sowing Info
- When to Sow Outside: 1 to 2 weeks before your average last frost date.
- When to Start Inside: 8 to 10 weeks before your average last frost date.
- Days to Emerge: 14–21 days
- Seed Depth: Press into surface
- Seed Spacing: A group of 4 seeds every 12"
- Thinning: When 1" tall, thin to 1 every 12"
Description
Create a palette of colors in your garden with scarlet, purple, pink, white, yellow, and bicolored flowers combined with elegant, blue-green foliage. Butterflies enjoy their nectar. Excellent cut or dried flower; one flower per stem. The mild-clove-flavored petals make a colorful garnish to salads, desserts, and cold drinks. (The flower's central disk, while edible, can be bitter.)
Variety Info
- Family: Caryophyllaceae
- Native: Probably Mediterranean region
- Hardiness: Reliable perennial in USDA zones 6-9
- Exposure: Full sun
- Bloom Period: Summer
- Plant Dimensions: 18" tall
- Variety Info: 1"–3" mostly double blossoms in shades of scarlet, pink, purple, white, yellow, and bi-colors; sweet clove scent.
- Attributes: Cut Flower, Deer Resistant, Good for Containers
Sowing Info
- When to Sow Outside: 1 to 2 weeks before your average last frost date.
- When to Start Inside: 8 to 10 weeks before your average last frost date.
- Days to Emerge: 14–21 days
- Seed Depth: Press into surface
- Seed Spacing: A group of 4 seeds every 12"
- Thinning: When 1" tall, thin to 1 every 12"