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Galium Verum | Lady's Bedstraw
Galium Verum | Lady's Bedstraw

Galium Verum | Lady's Bedstraw

SKU: SD020001426
approx 250 seeds
£2.99
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9cm pot
£6.99
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3 × 9cm pots
£18.00 £20.97
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6 × 9cm pots
£29.99 £35.94
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Overview

Producing honey-scented, golden-yellow flowers, and whorls of slender, dark green leaves, which have a pleasant smell when cut and dried, lady's bedstraw is ideal for a sunny wildflower or perennial border. It's also an important food source for caterpillars of the broad-bordered bee hawk moth. As the name suggests, it was used in Victorian times as a mattress-filler. Not only did it have a pleasant smell, but it also helped repel fleas.

Specifications

  • Position: full sun or partial shade
  • Soil: any but the poorest soil
  • Rate of growth: average
  • Flowering period: June to September
  • Hardiness: fully hardy
  • Eventual Height:0.3m-0.6m
  • Eventual Spread: Less than 0.3m

Eventual height & spread

Eventual height and spread

Care guide

Sow in seed trays, or directly into a sunny, well prepared bed in spring or from late summer to early autumn. When sown in seed trays, just cover the seed and keep well watered but not wet. Pot on when large enough to handle and harden off before planting at 30cm intervals outside in late spring or early summer. Wildflowers prefer poorer soils, so avoid the use of fertilisers. In autumn after flowering cut the faded flower-heads down to the ground and compost the dead stems. Sow: April - May or August - October Flowering: June - September Approximate quantity: 250 seeds

How your order will arrive

Packaging
Seeds will arrive in paper satchets which are packaged in A4 or A5 hard backed envelopes.

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