Agrostemma Seeds | White

How to Grow

Start your Agrostemma seeds indoors 6 weeks before the last frost. In May, plant outdoors in a partly shady or open sunny spot with well-drained soil. If you want to start your Corncockle outdoors instead, direct sow them in Mid April-May. Its blooms are typically produced about 12-14 weeks from sowing and it flowers from June-September. Once it is done flowering, cut back.

• Sowing Rate: 3 - 4 seeds per plant
• Depth: 1/8 inch
• Plant Spacing: 9 - 12 inches
• Moisture: Keep seeds moist until germination
• Average Germ Time: 1 - 2 weeks

Flower Specifications

Regularly cut flowers and dead-head to ensure new blooms. It also makes a splendid cut flower! Place cut flowers in a bucket of clean water and allow to rest overnight before arranging in a vase.

• Height: 36 inches
• USDA Zones: 3 - 10
• Season: Annual

Agrostemma (Agrostemma Githago Bianca White) - Start the flower seeds directly outside and add a charming Agrostemma to the flower garden! These medium to tall flowering annuals have long, softly hairy leaves and large 1 1/2 inch white flowers. The flowers form singly on a long stem and sway in the slightest breeze. The flowers are followed by a straw colored flask-like seed head containing large, black, rough textured seed.

Agrostemma Githago, often referred to as Corncockle, can be established easily from flower seed, and is known to be a liberal self-sower. Agrostemma seeds will grow in most soils but does particularly well on free-draining, sandy loam. It can be considered a weed in crops.

Agrostemma (Agrostemma Githago Purple Queen) - Start the Purple Queen flower seeds directly outside and add a charming Agrostemma to the flower garden! Silky, speckled, blooms grow in sprays on willowy gray stems. Agrostemma Purple Queen prefers cool growing conditions for optimum results.

If you want delicate clouds of lavender-rose flowers, then agrostemma purple queen is the perfect flower for you. Agrostemma, ground from flower seeds, offers up abundant purple blooms that work great as cut flowers with long vase life. Sow agrostemma seeds late in summer for an encore round of blooms come fall. Sow these annual flower seeds in full sun and Agrostemma will reach a height of 30 - 36 inches in no time.