Description
Cornflower Centaurea cyanus
Brighten your garden or meadow with this beautiful and distinctive annual wildflower. An RHS Plants for Pollinator species, cornflowers intense sky-blue flower heads are attractive to bees and other pollinating insects.
Quick and easy-to-grow on any sunny, well-drained site, this cornfield favourite will add colour and interest to your garden or meadow over a long flowering season. Cornflowers perform well as cut flowers.
All our native wildflower seed is sourced from stock grown in the wild in Britain. It is then multiplied up commercially and packed in the UK so you can be confident you are buying native British wildflower seed.
Surface sow in spring from March to May, or in autumn from August to October.
Colour | Blue |
Height | 20cm -1 metre |
Latin name | Centaurea cyanus |
Season | June-August |
Setting | Fertile sunny sites |