Name: Matthiola incana 'Nami no Mai'
Brand: plant d'Avenir
SKU: pda701
Price: 5.9 EUR
Availability: InStock

Matthiola incana 'Nami no Mai'

€5,90

Matthiola incana 'Nami no Mai'

€5,90

Organic

Sustainable

Locally grown

🪴Standard: 9x9 cm pot

🚂 Ships across EU

🌱 Grown without pesticides or UV lamps

Flower Color: Purple

Preferred Soil Type: Poor, Chalky

Sunlight: Full sun

Hardiness Zone: Zone 7: -17°C

Origine: Corsica

Matthiola incana 'Nami no Mai' is one of the truly perennial stocks, of great ornamental value, because in a mild climate it can form a bushy little shrub on a short trunk, dressed in narrow, matte grey foliage and an abundant spring bloom with a carnation-like fragrance.

The flowers are normally blue, but since we propagate it from seed, a few plants may occasionally bear pink or even deep purple flowers, though always with that same magnificent spicy scent. In moist soil, it is sometimes grown as a biennial despite its excellent hardiness.

This stock (also called Brompton stock or gillyflower) is an ideal plant for a garden without watering, a large rock garden, and also for decorating a terrace or balcony.

The stock, in its simplest form, is a very rewarding plant, thanks to its profusion of flowers, their fragrance, and its ability to grow with no maintenance, in a weekend garden or a garden without a gardener.

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Growing wild in the far south-east of Corsica, matthiola is native to Mediterranean Europe and the Canary Islands, where it readily self-sows among the rocks of the coastline.

This large, fast-growing perennial with a woody base belongs to the Brassicaceae family, like cabbage, rapeseed and mustard. Under growing conditions similar to its natural habitat, it will reach well over a metre in every direction and develop a true little trunk and woody branches.

In cooler conditions, it forms a very handsome, bushy, spreading clump of 40 to 60 cm in every direction. Its foliage, evergreen in mild winters, consists of long, narrow, hairy, grey-green leaves, with silvery highlights that are accentuated by heat and drought.

It blooms from April to June, depending on the climate. The bloom is very abundant, remarkably fragrant and very popular with foraging insects. The small, single, 4-petalled flowers are gathered in terminal clusters at the tips of the leafy stems.

Matthiola incana has a taproot, which should be handled with care when transplanting.

Botanically a short-lived perennial, but typically grown as a cool-season annual or biennial because flowering declines and stems become woody after the first year.