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Welcome to Country Garden Seeds! Flower Seeds for your garden, for cut flowers and for wildlife. Do you dream of a beautiful garden full of scented flowers and buzzing with wildlife? Just sow a few packets of seeds for gorgeous flowers that your garden wildlife will love too. Here are some beautiful and easy plants for you to grow.
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Eschscholzia californica & Phacelia tanacetifolia
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Eschscholzia californica & Phacelia tanacetifolia

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Eschscholzia & Phacelia Seeds

A lovely mix of flowers to grow together. Eschscholzia californica is a simple poppy from California with bright upright flowers and feathery foliage. Orange, Gold and Cream flowers open in the sun then close when night falls. Californian Poppies are easy to grow, produce masses of flowers and they are perfect for edging paths too.

Phacelia is one of our most useful hardy annuals with abundant flowers soft blue flowers and feathery grey/green foliage. Commonly known as Purple Tansy or Scorpion Flower, Phacelia has beautiful lavender blue flowers which are hugely attractive to bees and hoverflies. It's good in wild flower meadows, cottage gardens, great for cut flower production (it's a cut and come again flower and lightly scented too) and attracts beneficial insects. What's more Phacelia is useful as a green manure too.

For lots of flowers I recommend making two spring sowings, one in March then again in May for flowers all summer long. Sow again in autumn for early flowers the following year.

Genus Phacelia tanacetifolia and Eschscholzia californica
Common Names Purple Tansy/Scorpion Flower and Californian Poppies
Plant Type Hardy Annuals. Perfect for Pollinators. Cut Flowers.
Height and Spread 45-60cm / 18-24 inches tall x 30 / 12 inches wide
Sow Seeds Sow in succession for the longest flowering period. Sow indoors March to April then sow direct in May and June. Sow in late summer/autumn for early flowers next year.
Thin/Plant Out 30 cm apart
Conditions Required Grow in full sun in well drained soil. Needs plenty of water but not waterlogged soil.
Flower Production May to August. Takes 10 to 12 weeks to flower if sown in spring. Each sowing produces blooms for at least 8 weeks.
Picking Pick early in the day and strip most of the leaves from the stem. Sear stem ends for 20 seconds then stand them in deep water to condition for several hours before arranging. Lasts 5-7 days as a cut flower.
Planting Combinations Grows beautifully with Cornflowers, Poppies, Knautia, Ox-Eye Daisies and other airy annual flowers. Perfect for adding a relaxed feel to cottage gardens, meadow planting schemes and bunches of cut flowers.
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