Nigella 'Persian Jewels' bears delicate, old-fashioned flowers of red, rose pink, blue, deep violet-blue and white open a pale colour but mature to their intense, pure shades, each backed by a wispy, bright green ruff. Viewing the flowers from afar these flowers look as though they are floating in a mist.
One of the most interesting shaped flowers you will ever see, both for its blooms and attractive fennel-like foliage. Love-in-a-mist grows naturally in rocky places native to Europe and North Africa, however, these flowers are well suited for traditional cottage garden settings or plant in a meadow where the soil is a little on the dry side and not too rich.
It is a charming, hardy, self-sowing annual, flowering the same year, thats very much at home in any garden. It is also a very popular cut flower and can be dried for winter decoration.
SOWING
The Best Method is direct sowing into the soil in Spring.
Your soil needs to be free drainingif her feet are kept wet she will sulkshe may even sulk herself to death..such a drama queen.
Try not to cut all the flowersleave some to turn into seed podsthey are amazingobviously you need to leave them if you want the plant to self seed.
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