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Love-in-a-Mist 'Albion Black Pod'
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Love-in-a-Mist 'Albion Black Pod'

Nigella damascena
This easy-to-grow hardy annual will have you out in the garden in spring, sprinkling the seeds into freshly raked earth. The balloon-shaped seedpods ripen and expand once the snow-white flowers fall, turning a rich reddish purple when ripened. Pick for fresh or dried flower bouquets, and leave a few to self-sow.
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Details
Approximate Seeds Per Packet
113
Lifecycle
Annual
Annual Hardiness
Hardy Annual
Mature Size
1-1.5' h x 1' w
Sun
Full sun
Soil
Regular to rich, moist, well-drained
Season
Spring to summer
Color
White starry flowers with burgundy seedpods developing after bloom.
Features
Great Cut Flower
Heat or Drought Tolerant
Attracts Bees
Notable
RHS Award of Garden Merit Winner
SOWING INSTRUCTIONS
Depth:
1/16"
Sprout Time:
7-21 days
Seed To Bloom:
12 weeks
Starting Indoors:
Not recommended.
Starting Outdoors:
Recommended. Direct sow 3-4 weeks before last frost and again in early to mid-summer for continued bloom. Fall sow in zones 7-10.
PLACEMENT & CULTIVATION
Nigella, or love-in-a-mist, is a classic cottage garden flower with a long history in English gardens, cultivated since the 1600s. Native to the Mediterranean region, it became part of ancient herbal gardens in company with N. sativa and part of healing and culinary traditions. We still treasure it, for it is easy to grow, flowers freely, and produces abundant clusters of decorative seedpods. Grow in containers, the front of borders, or cut flower gardens. The inflated striped seed pods make perfect dried flowers; fresh-cut flowers are charming combined with calendulas and other small spring annuals. Excellent as a tulip and small bulb companion, its fresh foliage hides but never smothers the fading bulb foliage, the flowers adding another season of bloom. Deadhead to prolong flowering or allow the decorative seedpods to develop. Self-sows.
Final Spacing:
8"
Water Requirements:
Medium Water Use
Watering Details:
1" per week
Soil pH:
Acidic to neutral
Fertilizer:
Mix in 1-2" inches of compost prior to planting.
Diseases & Pests:
No serious diseases or pests.
When to Cut for Bouquets:
Harvest freshly opened flowers; for dry use once seed pods have dried.
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