Scabiosa atropurpurea 'Summer Fruits'
- Good for Cutting
- Loved by Pollinators
- Loved by Garden Birds
- Scented
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Super productive variety
Easy to grow
A summer-berry mix of colours in this rich and hugely flowery annual scabious collection
- Good for Cutting
- Loved by Pollinators
- Loved by Garden Birds
- Scented
Product details
- Type
- Hardy Annual
- Position
- Cutting Garden
- Soil
- Neutral - Alkaline
- Flowers
- June - October (or November if cut back mid-season)
- Height
- 90cm (36in)
- Common name
- Sweet scabious
- Moisture
- Well-drained
- Aspect
- Full Sun
- Spread
- 45cm (18in)
- Cultivation
- Sow in autumn in gentle heat and overwinter seedlings somewhere cool and bright or sow in early-mid spring. Plant out in mid-late spring, spaced 30cm apart.
Care Tips
Pick or deadhead regularly. Like all annual scabious, this can be cut it back hard in the middle of it’s flowering season, reducing the plants by a quarter and in two weeks, the whole lot will be covered in flower again.
Flowering Time
June - October (or November if cut back mid-season)
