Love in a mist

Dense, curved spikes of soft lavender flowers, over a long period. Ideal for cutting. Helps encourage butterflies into your garden! Flowers July-September. Height 40-60cm (16-24"). HA - Hardy annual.

Love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena), photographed at Green Spring Gardens © Cindy Dyer. All rights reserved.

Nigella damascena, commonly called nigella, love-in-a-mist or Persian jewels, is an annual herb native to southern Europe and North Africa. A member of the Ranunculaceae or buttercup family, love-i…

i saw this flower for the first time in "carrie hepple's garden." the flower looks as beautiful as it looked in the picture book.

How to grow and care for nigella (love-in-a-mist) flowers from seed: sowing, germination, light/soil preferences, spacing, hardiness, harvesting, and uses.

Growing Nigella in the garden, also known as love in a mist plant, offers an interesting, peek-a-boo flower to be glimpsed through showy bracts. Care of love in a mist flower is easy and this article can help.

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This flower seed mix produces blooms of white, rose and blue. Nigella seeds are grown as much for the flowers as the seed pods that form after the blooms are finished.

Nigella damascena 'Miss Jekyll' (Love-in-a-Mist) is a popular, upright, bushy annual boasting sky-blue flowers, 1. in. across (4 cm), from early to late summer. The pretty blossoms are borne atop stems clad with finely-cut, feathery foliage that forms a mist around them. They are followed by decorative, balloon-shaped, seed capsules that are terrific for dried flower arrangements. A cool weather annual, Love-in-a-Mist is easy to grow, low care and trouble-free. It looks good in the garden…

Pink seed strains of Nigella damascena seem to be increasingly fashionable at recent British flower shows. It’s a quirky flower, by any standards. Layered petals wheel around a crazy eye abov…