Nigella damascena

Nigella damascena

€3,00
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Nigella damascena
  • Nigella damascena
  • Nigella damascena
  • Nigella damascena
  • Nigella damascena
  • Nigella damascena
  • Nigella damascena
  • Nigella damascena
  • Nigella damascena
  • Nigella damascena
  • Nigella damascena
  • Nigella damascena
  • Nigella damascena
  • Nigella damascena
  • Nigella damascena
Nigella damascena

Nigella damascena

€3,00
Organic
Sustainable
Locally grown

🪴Standard: 9x9 cm pot

🚂  Ships across EU

🌱 Grown without pesticides or UV lamps

🌱 This plant will only be sold as of March every year

Flower Color: Blue

Sunlight: Full sun

Growth Habit: Upright

Origine: Syria

Nigella damascena is a hardy, multi-functional self-seeding annual flower, a Middle Eastern cousin of Nigella sativa.
Do not confuse the two! The seeds of Nigella damascena are not edible!
The plant itself is magnificent, with delicate blue flowers surrounded by a green mist of lacy feathers (hence the name Love in a Mist).
Why is Nigella in the collection if she is an annual, you ask?
The fact is, the re-seeding is so reliable and prolific that Nigella sativa will be as permanent as a perennial if you let it.
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Gardening Tips

If you do not want your Nigella to reseed - or you want to spread the Nigella beauty to another part of your garden -
Cut the seedpods while green and fresh.
Tie the stems with string and hang them upside down in a cool, dry, dark location for several weeks
Use as you please - bouquets, arrangements, decoration
The Botany
The Myth

The Tale & The Botany: Nigella damascena

One of the common name's is 'Katharine’s flower' - named after the saint who suffered martyrdom on a wheel, which is maybe a reference to the way the leaves spread like the spokes of a wheel. Maybe?

Other Names:

Love in a Mist

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