Lychnis flos-cuculi
ragged robin
- 9cm pot
- £9.99
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- 3 × 9cm pots
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- 1 litre aquatic pot
- £21.99
- available to order from spring
- 3 × 1 litre aquatic pots
- £34.99
- available to order from spring
- 3 litre aquatic pot
- £29.99
- available to order from spring
- approx 1000 seeds
- £2.99
- available to order from spring
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- Position: Full sun or partial shade
- Soil: Reliably moist, fertile soil
- Depth of water: 0-5cm
- Rate of growth: Average to fast
- Flowering period: April to July
- Hardiness: Fully hardy
A wonderful British native wildflower for wet meadows, bog gardens, or suitably moist areas of the garden. Upright with branching stems bearing lance-shaped leaves, ragged robin dazzles with terminal clusters of star-shaped, deep rose-pink flowers, narrowly dissected to which insects flock in late spring and early summer.
Apply a generous mulch of well-rotted compost around the base of the plant in early spring. Cut back the faded flowerheads in late summer and autumn.
Surface-sow directly onto trays filled with good seed compost in March or April, and maintain temperatures around 20C. When seedlings are large enough to handle, pot them up individually and grow them on. Gradually harden off before planting outside after risk of frost. Autumn-sown seedlings (August to October) should be overwintered in a coldframe before planting out the following spring.
