Matthiola incana 'Anytime Red' (Anytime Series)
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- approx 100 seeds
- £2.99
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- Position: Full sun
- Soil: Moderately fertile, moist but well drained soil
- Rate of growth: Fast
- Hardiness: Hardy biennial (often grown as an annual)
A delightful bedding plant boasting tightly packed, fully double blooms in a captivating shade of cherry red. These fragrant blossoms emit a sweet and spicy clove scent, perfuming the air on sturdy, single stems. While traditionally a cottage garden favourite, 'Anytime Red' offers versatility, making it equally stunning in a cut flower vase. Whether grown as a hardy biennial for early season blooms the following year or as an annual from an early spring sowing, this plant promises to add a vibrant burst of colour and fragrance to any situation.
Keep watered during dry spells and apply a monthly, liquid, general-purpose fertiliser during the growing season. Pinch out the top as they grow to encourage branching and more flower spikes, cutting back the main stem once flowers have faded to encourage side shoots to bloom too.
Sowing instructions:
Fill trays with good quality compost and lightly cover the seeds. Water and grow on at 13-18°C. Prick out seedlings with a green/yellow colour and discard the dark green ones which will produce only single flowers. Pot on when they have put on their first true leaves and then harden off before planting out at 20-30cm intervals after the frosts have passed. Seeds sown in autumn and overwintered in a frost-free frame, will produce plants which will flower earlier in the year, than those sown in spring.
- Sow: October to November or February to March
- Flowering: June to October