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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.
In June you can sow a batch of Hardy Annuals which will grow and flower quickly now the soil has warmed up. Start sowing Biennials such as Foxgloves, Sweet William and Wallflowers. Sow Half Hardy Annuals such as Cosmos, Sunflowers and Zinnias and they’ll flower in summer and autumn too.

Setaria italica 'Red Jewel'

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Setaria italica 'Red Jewel' Seeds

Setaria Red Jewel is a beautiful annual grass with burgundy foliage and soft foxtail shaped flower heads. It’s good in mixed borders with flowering perennials, great in the cutting garden for cut flower production and good for dried flowers too.

Like most grasses Setaria is easy to grow and quickly produces masses of stems for cutting. At the end of the season allow some seed heads to form on this ornamental millet and you'll have your own supply of nutritious food for your garden birds. For best results sow indoors in spring and plant out when the soil has warmed up in May.

Genus Setaria italica
Variety Red Jewel
Plant Type Hardy Annual Grass. Cut Flower.
Height & Spread 60-90cm tall x 45-60cm wide (2-3 feet tall x 18 inches-2 feet wide)
Sow Seeds Sow indoors in spring then plant out in May. Sow outdoors from May onwards.
Thin/Plant Out Allow at least 45cm (18 inches) between plants.
Conditions Required Prefers well drained soil in full sun.
Flower Production Buckets full of glamorous tassels produced from June to October as long as you keep picking.
Picking Pick early in the morning and stand them in deep water for a few hours before arranging. Lasts 7+ days in a vase. Keeps colour if dried.
Planting Combinations This lovely burgundy Setaria grows particularly well with other annuals in shades of red and caramel such as Scabiosa, Daucus Dara and Rudbeckia.
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