A real stunner, whose jewel-like blooms are set off to perfection by the beautifully marbled foliage, which spreads and trails to create superb ground cover. Ideal for hanging baskets too! Flowers June-September. Height 25cm (10").
Culinary information: The peppery flavour of the leaves and colourful flowers will enrich salads and the unripe seeds can used like capers – delicious combined with cream cheese or butter in canapés. For more details about edible flowers.
Growing Information
Easily grown, versatile plants, flowering freely all summer. Happiest in poor, free-draining soil. Sow March-June outdoors, flowers June-September.
Sowing Information
Sow the seed thinly direct into finely raked, moist, warm, weed free soil where the plants are to flower 13mm (1?2") deep. Germination normally takes 10-14 days. As the seedlings develop, thin to achieve a final spacing of 25cm (10"). Use any spare plants to fill the spaces in the bed. Alternatively, for earlier plants sow on a windowsill or in a greenhouse at approx. 13-18°C (55-66°F) 3 or 4 seeds to a 7.5cm (3") pot. Plant out after acclimatising to outside conditions.
A real stunner, whose jewel-like blooms are set off to perfection by the beautifully marbled foliage, which spreads and trails to create superb ground cover. Ideal for hanging baskets too! Flowers June-September. Height 25cm (10").
Culinary information: The peppery flavour of the leaves and colourful flowers will enrich salads and the unripe seeds can used like capers – delicious combined with cream cheese or butter in canapés. For more details about edible flowers.
Growing Information
Easily grown, versatile plants, flowering freely all summer. Happiest in poor, free-draining soil. Sow March-June outdoors, flowers June-September.
Sowing Information
Sow the seed thinly direct into finely raked, moist, warm, weed free soil where the plants are to flower 13mm (1?2") deep. Germination normally takes 10-14 days. As the seedlings develop, thin to achieve a final spacing of 25cm (10"). Use any spare plants to fill the spaces in the bed. Alternatively, for earlier plants sow on a windowsill or in a greenhouse at approx. 13-18°C (55-66°F) 3 or 4 seeds to a 7.5cm (3") pot. Plant out after acclimatising to outside conditions.