Flowers first year from an early sowing. Compact variety, ideal for smaller gardens.
Features: Flowers first year from an early sowing.
Sowing Guide - Indoors: Sow indoors to flower the same year, 0.5cm (1/4") deep, in a tray of compost. A temperature of 15-20oC (60-68oF) is ideal. Keep moist. Seedlings usually appear in 21-42 days. Transplant seedlings 5cm (2") apart to other trays when large enough to handle. Grandually accustom young plants to outside conditions before planting out 25cm (10") apart, when frosts are over.
Sowing Guide - Outdoors: Sow outdoors to flower the following year, in a seed bed, 0.5cm (1/4") deep, into finely prepared soil which has already been watered. Thin seedlings to 5cm (2") apart before planting out to flowering positions in autumn. Plants are generally quite short lived. Allow their seeds to shed for further plants in subsequent years.
Soil Type: Moisture retentive
Position: Part shade
Hints & Tips: Allow plants to shed their seeds to get further plants in subsequent years.
