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Scabiosa atropurpurea 'Tall Double Mix'
- Good for Cutting
- Loved by Garden Birds
- Loved by Pollinators
- Scented
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Tried & tested by Sarah
Super productive variety
Easy to grow
One of the longest-flowering and glamorous hardy annual cut flowers
These pincushion flowers are gently scented.
On occasion we may need to send you an alternative variety to the one shown, which will be selected by our growing team to ensure its suitability. It will be of equal or greater value to the original. Please contact our customer service team if there are any problems.
- Good for Cutting
- Loved by Garden Birds
- Loved by Pollinators
- Scented
Product details
- Type
- Hardy Annual
- Position
- Cutting Garden
- Soil
- Neutral - Alkaline
- Flowers
- June - October
- Height
- 90cm (36in)
- Common name
- Sweet Scabious
- Moisture
- Well-drained
- Aspect
- Full Sun
- Spread
- 45cm (18in)
- Cultivation
- Sow in autumn in gentle heat and overwinter seedlings somewhere cool and bright or sow in early-mid spring. Plant out in mid-late spring, spaced 30cm apart.
Care Tips
Pick or deadhead regularly. Like all annual scabious, this can be cut it back hard in the middle of it’s flowering season, reducing the plants by a quarter and in two weeks, the whole lot will be covered in flower again.
Flowering Time
June - October
