Scabious Imperial Mix

A gorgeous cottage garden favourite with a fantastic long flowering season. Producing pincushion-type flowers on strong stems in shades of pink, rose, lavender, maroon and white.

Scabious flowers make the most beautiful cut flowers and are irresistible to pollinators. 

• Seed Quantity: 50 Seeds
• Type: Perennial grown as an Annual
• Genus: Scabious atropurpurea
• Sow Seeds: Sow March-April or September 3mm deep into well-drained moist seed compost.  Keep at 15-18 degrees whilst germinating which can take 14+ days.  Transplant into 8cm pots when large enough to handle and grow on.
• Plant Out: For autumn sowings keep the seedlings in an unheated greenhouse to over winter and plant out the following spring 
• Flowers: June-October
• Height & Spread: 60cm high x 45cm spread

RHS Plants for Pollinators.

The RHS Plants for Pollinators mark is only given to plants that support pollinating insects.