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French Honeysuckle
| Product Code: | NG002 |
| Seeds Per Pack: | Approximately 30 |
| Price Per Pack: | £2.25 |
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| Comments: | Exquisite flower colour, bumble bees adore the plant, will help fix nitrogen in your soil (the element that gives lush green leaves). Easy to grow, and our photographer says its been ‘his favourite model’ |
| Latin name: | Hedysarum coronarium |
| Good for: | Lovely tall plant for the border, adding a touch of the exotic |
| Flower spike | 9 - 14cm long |
| Plant height: | 100 - 120cm |
| When to sow: | Outdoors: From March to beginning of May for early July flowers. Indoors: January/February for early June flowers. |
| Weeks to flowering: | From outdoor sowing: 11 - 12 |
| Hardiness: | Although a perennial, the plant is border line for hardiness. Will take some frost but not severe cold. |
| Garden position: | Will enjoy a sheltered and sunny position in average well drained soil. Remember how tall it gets though (still makes a change from the compact stuff one sees around) |
Best Sown Directly Outdoors:
| When: | From March, when the soil warms up, to the beginning of May |
| How: | Thinly, in shallow imaginative lines and cover lightly |
| Thin Out: | 25 - 30cm between plants. Plants may need staking. |
| Days to germination: | 7 - 14 |
Sow Indoors For Early Flowers :
| When: | From January to end of February |
| Temperature: | 10 - 18°C e.g. cool windowsill or conservatory |
| Use: | Soil-less seed compost with 25% either sharp sand or perlite. Cover lightly. If not sown in a propagator, cover with a plastic bag (remove on germination) |
| Days to germination: | 6 - 14 |
Prick out seedlings and grow on. Plant out after hardening off seedlings. |
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For more advice on how to grow your seeds successfully, go to our hints and tips section.
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