Flowers the year after sowing. Impressive spikes of early summer colour year after year. Superb planted in groups in a border.
Features: Superb in groups or dotted through a border.
Sowing Guide - Indoors: Sow indoors for surest results, 1.5cm (1/2") deep, in trays of compost. Water well and place in a cold frame, unheated greeehouse or on a warm kitchen windowsill. Keep moist. Seedlings usually appear in 21-28 days. Transplant seedlings individually when large enough to handle to 8cm (3") pots. (Always handle by a leaf, never by the stem.) Gradually accustom young plants to outside conditions before planting out 60cm (2') apart.
Sowing Guide - Outdoors: Sow outdoors in a seed bed, 0.5cm (1/4") deep into finely prepared soil which has already been watered. Thin seedlings to 8cm (3") apart before planting out to flowering position in autumn.
Soil Type: Well drained, fertile
Position: Part shade
Hints & Tips: The seeds will benefit from being soaked in tepid water overnight prior to sowing.
