Mona Lisa® is the most exciting new series to come along in quite a while for the Windflower family! The result of half a century of breeding work, it includes solid colors and bicolors, of which Wine White is our absolute favorite. These astonishing, upturned blooms reach 4 to 4½ inches across! And the color pattern is brilliant: white petals shading to a rich wine-purple at the base, with a frilly center of gold and red adding texture (and yet another color blend!) to the mix. Absolutely beautiful!
And although these enormous blooms appear on long, wiry stems, they are far from delicate. Cut them the day after they first open, adding a pinch of sugar to the water that you harvest them in (that extends their vase life), and you can expect them to look good in indoor arrangements for 10 to 14 days.
Mona Lisa® was bred for flower power, too. A mature plant will deliver up to 18 blooms! They never need staking, and the stems will be longer in the lower light of late winter, early spring, and late fall than at other times. You just can't lose with this powerhouse!
Expect Wine White Bicolor to reach 10 to 18 inches in bloom, and to spread just 6 inches wide. This is a perennial that thrives in part shade and rich soil that is kept watered and mulched. It flowers in spring and fall, keeping the earliest spring bulbs company and also greeting the cool-season autumn annuals and vegetables. Pamper it to encourage even heavier bloom, and it will reward you many times over! Zones 6-9.
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.
Mona Lisa® is the most exciting new series to come along in quite a while for the Windflower family! The result of half a century of breeding work, it includes solid colors and bicolors, of which Wine White is our absolute favorite. These astonishing, upturned blooms reach 4 to 4½ inches across! And the color pattern is brilliant: white petals shading to a rich wine-purple at the base, with a frilly center of gold and red adding texture (and yet another color blend!) to the mix. Absolutely beautiful!
And although these enormous blooms appear on long, wiry stems, they are far from delicate. Cut them the day after they first open, adding a pinch of sugar to the water that you harvest them in (that extends their vase life), and you can expect them to look good in indoor arrangements for 10 to 14 days.
Mona Lisa® was bred for flower power, too. A mature plant will deliver up to 18 blooms! They never need staking, and the stems will be longer in the lower light of late winter, early spring, and late fall than at other times. You just can't lose with this powerhouse!
Expect Wine White Bicolor to reach 10 to 18 inches in bloom, and to spread just 6 inches wide. This is a perennial that thrives in part shade and rich soil that is kept watered and mulched. It flowers in spring and fall, keeping the earliest spring bulbs company and also greeting the cool-season autumn annuals and vegetables. Pamper it to encourage even heavier bloom, and it will reward you many times over! Zones 6-9.
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.