Kew Hesperis Seeds
Product Description
These Hesperis (Sweet Rocket or Dame's Violet) Seeds release an intoxicatingly sweet, clove-like fragrance that drifts on the evening air, transforming your garden into a sensory sanctuary.
The loose clusters of four-petaled flowers, appearing in beautiful shades of lilac, mauve, purple, and pure white, create a soft, romantic tapestry of colour from late spring into early summer.
Sweet Rocket will also attract butterflies and other beneficial insects to your garden. Hardy Biennial - can be perennial in some soils.
This seed packet includes:
- Approx. 500 seeds.
- Sowing months: February, March, April, May
- Flowering months: May, June, July
- Where to Sow: Sow in a prepared seed bed in a sunny or partially shaded spot.
- How to Sow: Sow seeds thinly, 1.5cm (½") deep, in drills spaced 30cm (12") apart. Thin seedlings to 25cm (10") apart and transplant to their final flowering position in autumn for the best results.
Growing tips:
Pollination Seeds
The pollination seed collection brings together a range of plants and flowers that are not only beautiful, but will also help attract a wide variety of pollinators to your garden and help enhance the ecosystem.
Pollination occurs when pollen is transferred from flower to flower by animals such as bird, bees, bats, butterflies, beetles and moths. By encouraging these animals to your garden, with pollinator friendly seeds, you can help more natural growth occur within local landscapes.
Across the world there is evidence that pollinating animals have suffered via loss of habitats, disease and chemical misuse, creating a shortage of these vital creatures.
One of the things that home gardeners can do to help is to cultivate native plants that provide nectar and food for pollinators, such as those you will find in the pollination collection.Reviews
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