Why we love this flower:
- Uses: Cut Flower, Filler and Dried Pods
- Garden growth success: Easy
This charming old-fashioned flower blooms in spring and early summer. When Love-in-a-mist reseeds on its own, you'll have blooms spring through fall.
Plants have finely cut, bright green leaves that resembles fennel leaves. Light green, lacy, finely divided threadlike bracts form the mist surrounding the jewel-like flowers.
The flower has pure white petals with a crown of plummy purple anthers in the center of each bloom. The flower is followed by an attractive, balloon-shaped seedpod (actually an inflated capsule composed of 5 fused true seedpods) up to 2 inch long in green. Love-in-a-mist looks good in the garden even when the plant is not in bloom, with its handsome foliage and interesting seedpods after flowering. The pods make excellent cut and dried flowers for year-round enjoyment.
PLANT DETAILS
Common name: Love-in-a-mist
- Variety: African Bride
- Life cycle: Hardy Annual, tender Perennial
- Structure: Seed
- Attraction: Bees, beneficial insects
- Resistance: Deer
- Toxicity: People if eaten
CUT FLOWER DETAILS
- Fragrance level: Very light
- Cut stem length: 12 to 20 inches
- Bouquet role: Focal, filler and dried seedpod
- Vase life: 3 to 5 days, permanently when dried
GARDEN DETAILS
- Shipping season: Year round
- Planting season: Spring, Fall, succession plant every 3 weeks for longest bloom cycle
- Direct sow: Yes
- Bloom season: Spring through Fall
- Sun requirements: Full Sun
- Water preference: Consistent moisture
- Zones: 4 to 9
- Plant height: 15" to 24"
