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Limnanthes douglasii
Hardy Annual
- Flowers: Spring to Late Summer
- Soil: Well drained
- Height: 6 inches
- Germination: Easy
- Aftercare: Easy
- Ideal for: Bedding, Border, Children, Cottage Garden, Ground Cover, Patio, Tubs
Description
The Fried Egg or Poached Egg plant will attract hoverflies to your garden to beat the aphids. Bees also love this low, spreading carpet of fragrant golden and white blooms that will grace the front of the border, rockery or path edging.
Sowing Instructions
| Sowing time: | spring or late summer/early autumn for overwintering. |
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| Sowing depth: | 3mm (1/8in) 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 10cm (4in) apart.
Aftercare Instructions
They prefer full sun and a cool moist root run and because of this do very well when grown as an edging to paths. For very attractive winter/early spring flowering pot plants in a cool greenhouse or conservatory sow from mid summer to early autumn.