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Love-in-a-Mist 'Delft Blue'
Love-in-a-Mist 'Delft Blue'
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Love-in-a-Mist 'Delft Blue'

Nigella papillosa
Delft Blue has white petals brushed with a watercolor wash of blue. The easy to grow plants pump out hundreds of flowers in a summer-long show. As the flowers fade, the central seed capsule expands into a deep purple crown. Excellent for cut flowers, both fresh or dried, they are undemanding and rewarding.
SKU #S1611
$4.00
Details
Approximate Seeds Per Packet
181
Lifecycle
Annual
Annual Hardiness
Hardy Annual
Mature Size
2'-2.5' h x 1' w
Sun
Full sun
Soil
Regular, well-drained
Season
Spring to summer
Color
White splashed with sapphire blue
Features
Great Cut Flower
Attracts Bees
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 easy growth, free-flowering ways, and decorative seedpods. Grow in containers, the front of borders, or cut flower gardens. The inflated striped seed pods make perfect dried flowers, and fresh-cut flowers are charming combined with calendulas and other small spring annuals. Also, an excellent tulip and small bulb companion, its fresh foliage hiding but never smothering, 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:
1'
Water Requirements:
Medium Water Use
Watering Details:
1" per week
Soil pH:
Acidic to neutral
Fertilizer:
Mix in 1" inch of compost prior to planting.
Diseases & Pests:
No serious diseases or pests.
When to Cut for Bouquets:
Fully opened flowers or once seed pods have dried