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This summer-flowering corn cockle is perfect for naturalising in a sunny wildflower or cottage garden. A wonderful, magenta-purple annual wildflower, once a common sight in cornfields. Performing best in poor, good draining soil, the flowers are highly attractive to bees.
Location: full sun.
Soil Type: well-drained, preferably poor soil.
Growth Rate: average
Flowering Period: early to mid summer
Flower Colour: magenta-purple.
Other Characteristics: lance-shaped, grey-green foliage.
Plant Hardiness: fully hardy.
Plant Care: When sowing seeds do not use a fertiliser since wildflowers prefer poor soils. Deadhead regularly to prolong flowering. In fall cut the faded flowerheads down to the ground and compost the dead stems.
Matches: Knautia arvensis, Cardamine pratensis, Lonicera pericymenum, Briza media, Papaver rhoeas, Leucanthemum vulgare