Field Scabious

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Position: full sunSoil: moderately fertile, well-drained, preferably alkaline soilRate of growth: average Flowering period: July to September Flower colour: bluish-lilacOther features: highly attractive to beesHardiness: fully hardyLandlife Wildflower Seed Range:By choosing Landlife Wildflower seeds you are directly helping to save wildflowers and the wildlife that depend on them for their survival.

Landlife is a charity (reg 290510) who plough the profits from their sales into environmental activities in creative conservation - in other words developing new spaces for wildflowers to grow as well as safeguarding existing areas.Bluish-lilac, honeycomb-like flowerheads on slender stems from July to September and hairy, dull green leaves.

This beautiful native field scabious was once used to treat scabies and other skin ailments - hence its common name.

Highly attractive to butterflies and bees, it's perfect for naturalising in a sunny wildflower garden, mixed or herbaceous border.Garden care: When sowing seeds do not use a fertiliser since wildflowers prefer poor soils.

In autumn after flowering cut the faded flowerheads down to the ground and compost the dead stems.Goes well with: Centaurea cynarus, Cardamine pratensis, Lonicera pericymenum, Briza media, Papaver rhoeas, Crataegus monogyna

Vendor: Crocus.co.uk

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