Flax Linum Usitassimum

Flax Linum Usitassimum

I’ve been growing this for a few years and it is such a delicate blue flower! It is also used in linen production and to make linseed oil. Now I grow it for its fabulous seedheads which make a fabu

Seed count: 5grams

Germination Instructions: Sow directly where they are to flower in spring, or late summer for overwintering, to flower the following year. Sow 3mm deep in rows 30cm apart into soil which has been well prepared and raked to a fine tilth. Germination takes approx 10-25 days in spring. Once germinated thin seedlings to 15cm spacing. For summer sown seeds overwinter in cool frost free conditions and plant out the following spring.

You can also broadcast them in a wildflower patch.

Growing Instructions : Once established easy to grow. Do not fertilise as this reduces blooming, it reseeds here on a wild bank of flowers.

Cultivation Instructions: Deadhead spent flowers to encourage further blooms. Will self-seed freely.

When to Sow: March to May and August/September