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Organic Cornucopia Strawflower Mix
HEIRLOOM
Strawflowers are absolute magic, blooming like jewel-colored fireworks from early July all the way through frost in fall.
Easy to grow in any soil, strawflowers quickly grow 4+ feet with dozens of vivid blossoms per plant by season's end.
Cut and dried, strawflowers bring you joy for years, retaining their color & shape with astonishing grace. For the longest-lasting strawflowers, harvest young blossoms when they are only 20% open. Strawflowers continue to open after harvest and if you harvest when they're more open, they'll dry into their less vivid seed-setting stage.
Dry them in a warm place out of the direct sun, most of their leaves removed, before tucking them into inkwells, old mason jars, garlic braids and wreaths.
Sow Seeds & Sing Songs,
 & the whole Fruition Crew
75 days to flower
Bracteantha bracteata
How & When to Harvest Strawflower
Organic Cornucopia Strawflower Mix
Transplant Only: Sow indoors ~6 weeks before final frost, 2 seeds per cell barely covered with soil (light is required for germination). Mist to avoid covering seeds with displaced soil. Thin to 1 & transplant after danger of frost, 12” between plants. Harvest increases yield. Cut when 2-3 layers of petals have unfurled for greatest longevity.
Sowing Date: After frost; Late May - early June Seed Depth: 1/4 inch Days to Germination: 7-10 days at 70-75 F Days to Maturity: 75-85 Plant spacing after thinning: 6 inches Height: 36 inches
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