Glebionis Segetum (Corn Marigold (Syn. Chrysanthemum Segetum ))

£2.49

Landlife Wildflower Seed Range
By choosing Landlife Wildflower seeds you are directly helping to save wildflowers and the wildlife that depend on the for there survival. Landlife is a charity (reg 290510) who plough the profits from their sales into their environmental activitiies in creative conservation - in other words developing new spaces for wildflowers to grow as well as safeguarding existing areas.Cheerful, yellow, daisy-like flowers on long, branched stems above fleshy, grey-green leaves. Corn marigolds were once a familiar sight - adorning cornfields, railway embankments and roadsides. Perfect for naturalising in a sunny wildflower garden, profits from these seeds are used to protect existing wildflower areas and develop potential new sites.Position: full sun
Soil: well-drained, moderately fertile soil
Rate of growth: fast-growing Flowering period: June to August Flower colour: yellow
Other features: excellent informal cut-flowers
Hardiness: fully hardy
Garden care: When sowing seeds do not use a fertiliser since wildflowers prefer poor soils. Deadhead regularly to prolong flowering. In autumn cut the faded flower-heads down to the ground and compost the dead stems
Goes well with: Centaurea cyanus, Knautia arvensis, Lonicera pericymenum, Briza media, Papaver rhoeas, Leucanthemum vulgare