Genus: Centaurea

That's pretty.

Lovely color, looks good.

beautiful

RE Wizzbang - These plants are really prone to overnight slug and snail attacks which stops the plant developing and flowering. It does help to split them and try them in various places. They seem to like being moved and spread quite easily.

Lovely deep blue.

I have two of these, both in the same border, bought from the same place, one did well and one didnt!! The one that is doing well has been flowering non stop since the beginning of the season and is still producing loads and doesnt seem to be slowing. The other one is very small and has just produced the odd flower now and again. The bees love it.
Lynne x

Your picture shows a Centaurea montana. What would you like to know about it? I've got this (and the white version) so I may be able to help.

Just feed the name into Google or Yahoo and you will get masses of info

Amazing!

This is like a lovely big blackberry.

Lovely, Chris does it smell of chocolate? I had these a few years ago and remember the smell.

Unusual colour, like it

wonderful,

Thanks Irish, Little, Clarice and Janette.

wow brilliant colour

Love this one

lovely

Beautiful photo

Such an elegant composition.

Thanks everyone. Caught at the right moment they make a good photo.

That is the most stunning colour, it takes your breath away.
Thelma

Wow!! The only Scabiosa I've ever seen (probably of another family?) were pink and lavendar. That's a real beauty!

really striking against the house wall

Love this! I'll be looking out for the seed packet next year.

thanks for that :)

Wow Chrispook! I thought at first glance that it was berries! Fantastic!

Hi Charlie, I grew it from a packet of seeds from Suttons called Scabious summer berries. Theres a paler pink, a mid raspberry red, and this dark one. The ones I have this year are from the seeds I collected from the ones I grew from the packet last year. If you look in the seed catalogues on line, hopefully they are still selling them. You could grow some next year.

its makes a real impact-what is this commonly known as cos i need one-haha:)

Glad you like it everyone. This is the darkest one out of a selection called summer berries.

So black!

Beautiful colour

fab colour

just lovely chris

wow! what a beautiful colour

We have them in a large pot.This year has been a good time for them- they have put on a good show

Is this a Corn Flower Ang ?

Angie where are all your names. You usually have the names on all your plants. Some I recognise, some I'm not sure.

I grew them from seed last year. It's Scabious Summer Berries by Suttons seeds. Hope you can find some. I've got lots more this year having kept seed from last year.

Wow... ! that's really cool. Looks like my wish list has just gotten a little longer...lol.

Nice pink globe ! This must stand out in the garden!

Great Pic&Plant:)

lovely plant

Thanks Flcrazy, it is an exquisite flower. It looks different again now, more like candy floss. I might post another pic when I've checked how todays photos turned out.

What a excellent shot, I wouldn't have guessed the blooms had so many different shades of pink in them !

Thanks to all of you for your help! After Googling both, it is indeed cornflowers! Sorry Bonkers, my focus was off there & the flower heads for both species are similar. Thanks again!

Also known as Centaura.

I think Gillian is right, another name is bachelor's buttons.

Think they are cornflowers.

Lovely colour

Try nigella ' Love in the mist ' pretty pic.

Thanks for all the nice things you all said. It's so encouraging to have friends like you guys on GOY.

Yes Joannie they are. I don't think I've ever seen a yellow scabious. Shame you didn't buy it. Have you researched the seed catalogues?

Aren't scabious beautiful. My mum used to have a big bed of these when I was little but hers were yellow. I've only ever seen 1 yellow plant since having a garden of my own and have forever regretted not buying it!!

Wow..., what an eye-catcher, love it !

wow ,what a beautiful colour

Great looking flower, Chris. that is a singing colour...vibratto red...mmmm.

Obviously, being Buzzbee Scabiosa is one of my favourite flowers - and this is a gorgeous colour.

Fab Pic Chris :D

brilliant looking,, lovely colour

We call them Bachelor's Buttons and they are the greatest little flower...love your deep wine red...my faves are the cornflower blue ones. and then there's the mauve and white... hmmm. guess they're just all 'round great.

Beautiful pic :)

Yes Lori, love my lilies, and it's always a great surprise to see where the mullein is gonna pop up each year. I'll have to watch for the birds at it when it goes to seed. That must be fun to watch.

bumblebees really like mine...don't see too many butterflies yet but the little blue sure stayed awhile between the centauria and the mint...noticed that you have lilies and mullien too ...your beds must be very much like mine...Mullien is one of my all time favourites...You should see the chickadees when it goes to seed...it's an air show!!

I have this too and it is amazing stuff...I planted a clump in my flower bed but a seed must have got down beside the deck..between patio stones and the blacktop driveway...it was doing fine in a very narrow crevice...lol.had to move it...but somehow he doesn't look as happy as in the crevice!!

This is very lovely !

Yeh , its really nice eh ?

Up close, it reminds me of fireworks.!

I'm not sure Grammazoo, I just got it last year and I don't think it bloomed then. I would think so though.

This reminds me a bit of monarda; is it also a butterfly attracter?

The colours so different ?:)

Its nice when everything starts to flower

Thanks Mike - I am hoping that it seeds itself as much as its blue brother! I confess to buying two of them when I'd tracked it down... Glad I did, though!

Striking flower. Very much worth the search ENJOY !

I like it, too, and went off to buy a white version. I am SOOO annoyed because guess what - its buds are just opening - BLUE! I complained to the Nursery and I have to take it back, but ring first to see if they've got a really, truely white one! Trouble is, it was on one of my trips out to Devon - a long way just to play swapsies!