Blue as the summer sky and just about as endless, this free-flowering, long-blooming Floss Flower is a gift for the summer garden. Just 5 to 6 inches high and 3 to 4 inches wide, it offers big clusters of bright azure blooms among dark green foliage. Just the right size for containers, it also makes a splendid edging or front-of-the-border showoff.
The fluffy, light-as-air blooms literally arise all over very well-branched plants. Because they self-clean, you need never worry about "grooming" Aloha Blue.
Aloha Blue's clear color and fuzzy texture complement all the bright summer annuals beautifully. Let the low-growing, bushy Cosmos Sonata frame it with masses of clear white blooms, or enjoy the nodding golden heads of Coreopsis Early Sunrise leaning over this neat, rounded Floss Flower. Like Cosmos and Coreopsis, Aloha Blue is a great butterfly attractor. If you've been considering growing a butterfly garden, there are no better plants to begin with -- plus perhaps an Asclepias, such as the bicolor Butterfly Bush, for vertical effect. The butterflies will love you, and you will have enough cutflowers to keep your vases full all summer!
Aloha Blue is much smaller than most Floss Flowers, making it a great choice for mixed containers. Try it front and center, perhaps surrounded by the apricot, rose, and orchid tones of Vinca Mediterranean Hybrid Mix, or the tiny, fragrant blossoms of Sweet Alyssum Pastel Carpet.
Aloha Blue is easy to grow, asking only full sun, reasonably well-drained soil, and ordinary garden soil. In southern regions, partial shade is preferred for best flowering during the hottest months. If you want to get an early start (recommended for the far north), sow seeds indoors about 12 to 14 weeks before setting out. Where the growing season is longer (hotter climates), direct-sow when the soil warms in early spring. Pkt is 50 seeds.
An annual with heart-shaped foliage and “powder-puff” flowers (some are excellent for cutting) it is at home in beds, borders, and as edging fore containers. Mounded plants with downy, serrated green foliage reach 4-30 inches tall and spread 6-12 inches wide. Fluffy, tubular 1/4- to 1/2 -inch blooms of blue, pink, white, or lavender arise in loose clusters all summer. To keep the flowers fresh in a vase for 7-10 days, cut the blooms just as they are opening
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
Blue as the summer sky and just about as endless, this free-flowering, long-blooming Floss Flower is a gift for the summer garden. Just 5 to 6 inches high and 3 to 4 inches wide, it offers big clusters of bright azure blooms among dark green foliage. Just the right size for containers, it also makes a splendid edging or front-of-the-border showoff.
The fluffy, light-as-air blooms literally arise all over very well-branched plants. Because they self-clean, you need never worry about "grooming" Aloha Blue.
Aloha Blue's clear color and fuzzy texture complement all the bright summer annuals beautifully. Let the low-growing, bushy Cosmos Sonata frame it with masses of clear white blooms, or enjoy the nodding golden heads of Coreopsis Early Sunrise leaning over this neat, rounded Floss Flower. Like Cosmos and Coreopsis, Aloha Blue is a great butterfly attractor. If you've been considering growing a butterfly garden, there are no better plants to begin with -- plus perhaps an Asclepias, such as the bicolor Butterfly Bush, for vertical effect. The butterflies will love you, and you will have enough cutflowers to keep your vases full all summer!
Aloha Blue is much smaller than most Floss Flowers, making it a great choice for mixed containers. Try it front and center, perhaps surrounded by the apricot, rose, and orchid tones of Vinca Mediterranean Hybrid Mix, or the tiny, fragrant blossoms of Sweet Alyssum Pastel Carpet.
Aloha Blue is easy to grow, asking only full sun, reasonably well-drained soil, and ordinary garden soil. In southern regions, partial shade is preferred for best flowering during the hottest months. If you want to get an early start (recommended for the far north), sow seeds indoors about 12 to 14 weeks before setting out. Where the growing season is longer (hotter climates), direct-sow when the soil warms in early spring. Pkt is 50 seeds.
An annual with heart-shaped foliage and “powder-puff” flowers (some are excellent for cutting) it is at home in beds, borders, and as edging fore containers. Mounded plants with downy, serrated green foliage reach 4-30 inches tall and spread 6-12 inches wide. Fluffy, tubular 1/4- to 1/2 -inch blooms of blue, pink, white, or lavender arise in loose clusters all summer. To keep the flowers fresh in a vase for 7-10 days, cut the blooms just as they are opening
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.