<p>This is the true old-fashioned stock chosen for its superior fragrance. Direct seed where plants are to grow, in a place where you will smell their almond perfume after sunset. The pinky-mauve flowers open in the evening all summer. A hardy annual, sow mid-May. Approx. 1200 seeds/g.</p><p>Sow shallowly May/June, as they need light to sprout. Germinates at 21C in 7-14 days, blooms in 12 weeks in sun or part shade. Space 30cm apart; height 30cm.</p><p>Matthiola is named in honor of Peter Matthioli, an Italian garden writer from the sixteenth century. They were first discovered growing on cliffs high above the sea in England, and a number of garden varieties have been developed from the original wild species, M. incana.</p>
