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Love-in-a-Mist 'Miss Jekyll Blue'
Love-in-a-Mist 'Miss Jekyll Blue'
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Love-in-a-Mist 'Miss Jekyll Blue'

Nigella damascena
Sky blue flowers grace this favorite of Gertrude Jekyll, the famous English garden designer who lent her name to this selection. Ruffs of cut-edged petals are set off by the thread-like foliage, leading to familiar names such as Love-in-a-Puzzle, or Devil-in-a-Bush. Round maroon-striped seed pods soon follow, beautiful in winter arrangements. A seed list offered the species in 1810; the variety 'Miss Jekyll' arrived late in the century.
SKU #S347
$3.25
Details
Approximate Seeds Per Packet
322
Lifecycle
Annual
Annual Hardiness
Hardy Annual
Mature Size
1-1.5' h x 8" w
Sun
Full sun
Soil
Regular to rich, moist, well-drained
Season
Spring to summer
Color
Sky blue
Features
Great Cut Flower
Heat or Drought Tolerant
Attracts Bees
Notable
RHS Award of Garden Merit Winner
SOWING INSTRUCTIONS
Depth:
1/16"
Sprout Time:
7-21 days
Seed To Bloom:
12 weeks
Starting Indoors:
Not recommended.
Starting Outdoors:
Recommended. Direct sow 3-4 weeks before last frost and again in early to mid-summer for continued bloom. Fall sow in zones 7-10.
PLACEMENT & CULTIVATION
Nigella, or love-in-a-mist, is a classic cottage garden flower long-loved for it is easy to grow, flowers freely, and produces abundant clusters of decorative seedpods. Grow in containers, the front of borders, or cut flower gardens. The inflated striped seed pods make perfect dried flowers; fresh-cut flowers are charming combined with calendulas and other small spring annuals. Excellent as a tulip and small bulb companion, its fresh foliage hides but never smothers the fading bulb foliage, the flowers adding another season of bloom. Deadhead to prolong flowering or allow the decorative seedpods to develop. Self-sows.
Final Spacing:
8"
Water Requirements:
Medium Water Use
Watering Details:
1" per week
Soil pH:
Acidic to neutral
Fertilizer:
Mix in 1-2" inches of compost prior to planting.
Diseases & Pests:
No serious diseases or pests.
When to Cut for Bouquets:
Harvest freshly opened flowers; for dry use once seed pods have dried.
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