Bachelors Buttons, Beauty Mix

Centaurea cyanus

Edible, beautiful, and prolific, Bachelors Buttons are a must have for gardens and farms.  Just a few of these easy to grow plants will keep the neighborhood pollinators busy and offer you many flowers to cut in bouquets, harvest as salad or dessert garnishes and dry for teas.  This is a mix of colors from the well known deep blue, to lighter blue, white, pink and magenta.  Plants grow tall to 4-5 feet and can benefit from staking. 

Start indoors in early Spring to transplant or direct sow after frost danger has passed.  Space plants 6" apart. 

60 days to maturity

Packet contains ~75 seeds