- About Us
- Quick Index
- Illustrated Index
- New for 2008
- Ideas for your Garden
- Vita Sementi: Taste of Italy
- In Your Home & Garden
- Kew Collection
- Express Ordering
- Catalog Request
- Customer Service
- Shopping Cart
- Seed Germination Guide
- Vegetable Growing Guide
- Find Your Zone
- Useful Links
- Store Locator
- Contact Us
Briza maxima
1 packet (250 seeds) @ $2.95
Catalog Code: 2184
| You might also be interested in | |
|---|---|
 |
Annual Grasses Mixed |
 |
Eleusine coracana Green Cat |
Briza maxima
Hardy Annual
- Soil: Well drained
- Height: 18 inches
- Germination: Easy
- Aftercare: Easy
- Ideal for: Bedding, Border, Dried Flower
Description
Graceful, pendant, nodding flowers adding elegance and feeling to summer and winter decorations. Particularly useful at Christmas when they can be sprayed silver, gold etc. Very easy to grow to perfection.
Sowing Instructions
| Sowing time: | Outdoors, spring. |
|---|---|
| Sowing depth: | 6mm (žin) deep in rows 30cm (12in) apart. |
Best sown where they are to flower. Sow in well cultivated soil which has been raked to a fine tilth.
Growing Instructions
Thin out the seedlings to 23cm (9in) apart. They will grow in sun and in well drained soil.
Aftercare Instructions
Gather when the heads have changed color but before they start to break up, and hang them in bunches heads down in a cool, dry airy place.