Beautiful sparkly airy branching flowers
This is such a wonderful cottage garden flower but it also makes a first class filler flower. You can succession sow it if you want to prolong the flowering and it's harvest as a cut flower.
1. My first sowing is in January in the winter sowing method (that's when you sow in side milk jugs, water bottles, transparent storage containers etc.) This sowing typically flowers early June just as the May flowering forget me nots start to fade.
2. My second sowing would be after the harshest frosts have passed. So for me that's mid to late march. This will extend my flowering season beyond the June flowering early crop and into the mid summer.
3. My third sowing will be in late summer usually early September. These are for overwintering in the greenhouse and these will give me the earliest crop when the weather warms up.
The are hardy and do not require special treatment especially. Just remember the free draining soil and to protect from hard frosts in a greenhouse with frost cloth.
For more information you can watch my you tube vide on Saponaria here:
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