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Nigella 'Transformer'
Nigella 'Transformer'
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Nigella 'Transformer'

Nigella orientalis
This fennel flower has unique blooms of pale yellowish-green followed by curved-tipped seedpods like a medieval jokester's hat. Attractive as a cut flower, both fresh and dried, in a unique hue.
SKU #S1652
$3.25
Details
Approximate Seeds Per Packet
202
Lifecycle
Annual
Annual Hardiness
Hardy Annual
Mature Size
1.5-2' h x 1' w
Sun
Full sun
Soil
Regular to rich, moist, well-drained
Season
Spring to summer
Color
Greenish yellow
Features
Great Cut Flower
Heat or Drought Tolerant
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; fresh-cut flowers are charming combined with calendulas and other small spring annuals. Also, it is an excellent tulip and small bulb companion, its fresh foliage hiding but never smothering, the fading bulb foliage, and the flowers add 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 1-2" 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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