A real stunner, whose jewel-like blooms are set off to perfection by the beautifully marbled foliage, which spreads and trails to create superb ground cover. Ideal for hanging baskets too! Flowers June-September. Height 25cm (10″).
Culinary information: The peppery flavour of the leaves and colourful flowers will enrich salads and the unripe seeds can used like capers – delicious combined with cream cheese or butter in canapés. For more details about edible flowers click here.
Growing Information
Easily grown, versatile plants, flowering freely all summer. Happiest in poor, free-draining soil. Sow March-June outdoors, flowers June-September.
Sowing Information
Sow the seed thinly direct into finely raked, moist, warm, weed free soil where the plants are to flower 13mm (1?2″) deep. Germination normally takes 10-14 days. As the seedlings develop, thin to achieve a final spacing of 25cm (10″). Use any spare plants to fill the spaces in the bed. Alternatively, for earlier plants sow on a windowsill or in a greenhouse at approx. 13-18°C (55-66°F) 3 or 4 seeds to a 7.5cm (3″) pot. Plant out after acclimatising to outside conditions.
