A riot of airy, long-blooming color on stately plants! This mix contains all 4 Queen series blooms: cherry-rose, vivid pink, clear white, and soft violet!
Each bloom is just 1 inch long, but they arise profusely in loosely-held, ball-shaped clusters that perch atop stately 3- to 4-foot-tall stalks. New blooms open every afternoon, and are so thin and delicately-held that they have earned the common name "Spider Flower!" Excellent contrast to the dense, lush, pointed dark green foliage. And they bloom profusely from early summer all the way to frost in full sun! So easy and long-blooming, you'll wonder how you ever got by without a tall stand of Cleome in the back of the flower border!
Cleome is easy to start from seed. Just direct-sow the seeds into the sunny, well-drained garden in April, and before you know it, the vigorous plants have shot up several feet and begun to bloom! Very drought-tolerant, they weather the dog days of summer beautifully and keep going right into the cooler temperatures of fall. Pkt is 100 seeds.
Airy flowerheads are borne over a long season on theis easy-to-grow annual that is ideal for background planting, border or for cut flowers. Strongly fragrant annuals, 3-6 feet tall, with 6- to 7- inch heads of orchid-like blooms of rose, pink, white, or lavender. They bloom from summer till frost. Long, cylindrical seedpods appear in fall and collectively can form a spidery look. The airy blooms sport long stamens that resemble the legs of a spider –– the inspiration for Cleome’s common name. Light to mid-green foliage, held in groups of 5-7 leaflets, are palmately compound and prickly
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.
A riot of airy, long-blooming color on stately plants! This mix contains all 4 Queen series blooms: cherry-rose, vivid pink, clear white, and soft violet!
Each bloom is just 1 inch long, but they arise profusely in loosely-held, ball-shaped clusters that perch atop stately 3- to 4-foot-tall stalks. New blooms open every afternoon, and are so thin and delicately-held that they have earned the common name "Spider Flower!" Excellent contrast to the dense, lush, pointed dark green foliage. And they bloom profusely from early summer all the way to frost in full sun! So easy and long-blooming, you'll wonder how you ever got by without a tall stand of Cleome in the back of the flower border!
Cleome is easy to start from seed. Just direct-sow the seeds into the sunny, well-drained garden in April, and before you know it, the vigorous plants have shot up several feet and begun to bloom! Very drought-tolerant, they weather the dog days of summer beautifully and keep going right into the cooler temperatures of fall. Pkt is 100 seeds.
Airy flowerheads are borne over a long season on theis easy-to-grow annual that is ideal for background planting, border or for cut flowers. Strongly fragrant annuals, 3-6 feet tall, with 6- to 7- inch heads of orchid-like blooms of rose, pink, white, or lavender. They bloom from summer till frost. Long, cylindrical seedpods appear in fall and collectively can form a spidery look. The airy blooms sport long stamens that resemble the legs of a spider –– the inspiration for Cleome’s common name. Light to mid-green foliage, held in groups of 5-7 leaflets, are palmately compound and prickly
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.