Cottage Garden White Honesty Seeds

Cottage Garden White Honesty Seed Lunaria annua albiflora

Honesty is a reliable biennial cottage garden favorite, and this pure white form is grown in the walled white garden at the mid-Norfolk farm garden.  White Honesty flowers in early April and May here in the UK and plants seed reliably. We grow this white variet in isolation in a walled garden to reduce the posibility of cross polination with the purpel common honesty grown in other parts of the garden. The seed will keep for several years and still germinate reliably.

It can also be left to form its translucent disk-shaped seed pods that glow in autumn when frost encrusted.

The large flat seeds can be sown all year round and will germinate when ready. Young plants grow during year one and flower the following spring, some will form short lived perennials, but most plants loose their vigour after producing masses of seeds.

Honesty is self-supporting and produces lots of upright flower stems around 2-foot tall, masses of drooping flowers in April and May

Why Grow Honesty?

• 🏡 Ideal for Cottage Gardens – A traditional heirloom cottage garden flower, perfect for rustic mixed self-seeding and replicating cottage gardens. Once established Honesty will self-seed and can be thinned, or moved to wherever it is required in the garden.
  

• Eary nector for Bees in early Spring 

Growing Information:

• 🌱 Sow: any time of year by scattering the seeds in their final flowering position. Alternatively, in seed compost and transplant to flowering position when the plants are at the 4 leaf stage.

• ☀️ Position: Ideal Dappled shade and tolerates very poor and gravel-filled soils

• 📏 Spacing: Grow in small clumps, or as single plants, grows well in gravel and will grow in pots.

• 🌾 Harvest: seed from brown seed pods in Autumn and sow immediately. or leave to seed naturally