SOAPWORT Saponaria Ocymoides - 50 Soapwort seeds

Saponaria ocymoides

Trailing Rock Soapwort

Hardy Perennial

Saponaria is a superb flowering, pretty little plant that makes a low carpet for ground cover or for rock features. The plants form a mound of bright-green leaves, smothered by starry bright-pink clusters of flowers in late spring. 

Use as a ground cover in pockets in paving, as an edging in the sunny border or allow it to trail over the sides of raised beds and low walls for continuous summer colour. It is also worth considering for containers and for green roofs.
In the rock garden it will spill down sunny slopes and flow around rocks, helping to blend them into the landscape. It makes a great nursery plant for areas where other, slower growing plants are to be grown, preventing weeds while new plants are establishing. 

Saponaria can be used to overplant spring bulbs and is one of the easiest ground covers. Hardy to about -15°C it is drought tolerant once established.

Ideal germination temprature 15 to 20 degrees C

The only warnings for this plant is to avoid planting near your fish pond, so that the roots, and plants are not in your fish pond.

Soapwort is recommended for external use only. 

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