Baby's Breath Covent Garden

Graceful annual for the border, producing delicate flowers and foliage, splendid for cut flowers. Can also be grown as flowering pot plants, grown in drifts or planted so as to cascade down steep banks or dry walls. Flowers early summer. Height 18 inches.

Height: 18 inches; Type/hardiness: Hardy Annual; Prefers full sun

Sowing:

Sow early spring outdoors where they are to flower. Prepare the ground well and rake to a fine tilth before sowing. Sow 1/8 inch deep in rows 12 inches apart. Germination usually takes approximately 21 days. A fall sowing can be made for overwintering to produce earlier flowers and they can also be sown in the fall and grown on in pots in a well ventilated cold greenhouse to produce spring flowering pot plants.

Growing:

When large enough to handle thin out to 12 inches apart.

Aftercare:

They prefer a sunny open site but will grow in most sites and soils.

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