Matthiola incana Appleblossom
Half-hardy Annual
- Flowers: Summer
- Position: Sun or part shade
- Soil: Well drained
- Height: 12 inches
- Germination: Easy
- Aftercare: Easy
- Special Features: Scented
- Ideal for: Bedding, Border
Description
To one of the most beautiful annuals, T&M have added one of the loveliest of colour combinations and Mother Nature has supplied the fragrance.
Perfume, beauty and elegance in pink and white all rolled into one.
Invaluable summer bedding plants with dense showy spikes of sweet scented flowers.
Justifiably popular for beds, borders, cut flowers and they also make magnificent plants for winter flowering in the cold greenhouse.
Flowers early summer.
Height 30cm (12in).
Sowing Instructions
| Sowing time: | late winter to early summer. |
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| Sowing depth: | 6mm (¼in) |
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Sow in a good seed compost, but do not exclude light, which is beneficial to germination.
Germination usually takes 8-12 days at 15C (60F).
They can also be sown outdoors in spring where they are to flower or mid summer for winter flowering under glass.
Growing Instructions
Transplant when large enough to handle into boxes.
Grow on under cooler conditions.
Later plant out 30cm (12in) apart into ordinary soil in sun or part shade.
