Evening Scented Stock
Evening Scented Stock
- Seeds per pack: 200+
Seed Details
This plant enjoys full sun, attracts butterflies & gifts a heavenly scent in your evening garden. A small grouping of plants will fill your senses with an intoxicatingly sweet aroma in the early evening. Easily grown in a variety of conditions, but does best in even moisture. These plants produce a profusion of lilac flowers. Once you have grown them once, you will never want to be without them again. For cut flowers, choose stems with flowers that have just opened to increase vase life. Delicately strip the foliage that will fall below the water level, and place it in water immediately. Fabulously scent and delicate appearance are a great addition for baskets, beds and borders.
Instructions
Sow indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost, or direct sow outdoors after last frost. Prepare a seed cell, thoroughly water it, press the seeds gently into the soil, but do not cover as seeds need light to germinate. Recommended soil temperature of 12-18 degree Celsius. Evening scented stock are highly susceptible to damping off. However, a technique that works well when sowing seeds of plants that are susceptible to damping off is using seed cells with a fitted water tray underneath. This allows you to water from the bottom, thus keeping the soil closest to the stem drier and not disturbing the germinating seeds. Use a spray bottle to keep the seeds moist until they sprout and then switch over to bottom watering. This practice aids in averting damping off as well as encourages the roots to reach for the water down below Sow under bright light and with some ventilation nearby. Germination 5 to 20 days.
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Type: | Annuals |
Seed #: | 75 |
Variety: | Evening Scented a.k.a Night Scented |
Colour: | Purple |
Temperature (C): | 18 - 22 |
Zone: | 2+ |
Blooms: | June to September |
Site: | Full Sun or Part Shade |
Quantity: | 200 |
Height (cm): | 4 - 10 |
Spread (cm): | 25 - 30 |
A member of the Matthiola genus native to Eurasia. It is named after Italian naturalist Pietro Andrea Mattioli 1501–1577