Old-fashioned cottage garden plant bearing lovely clusters of violet, pink and white flowers that are highly attractive to bees and butterflies. The fragrant flowers smell like spicy clove and are most fragrant in the evenings. The flowers, young leaves, tender portions of stems and immature seed pods are all edible. The older leaves are not edible. They taste similar to cress and makes an attractive cut flower. Hardy and will tolerate light shade. Cut flower spikes once the flowers fade to encourage repeat blooming.
Seed count: 470/gm.
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Dame's Rocket
Hesperis matronalis
Hesperis matronalis, commonly known as dame's rocket, is a herbaceous flowering plant belonging to the Brassicaceae family. This versatile plant is known by various other names, including damask-violet, dame's-violet, dames-wort, dame's gilliflower, night-scented gilliflower, queen's gilliflower, rogue's gilliflower, sweet rocket, and mother-of-the-evening. Biennial, flowering in the second year.
Dame's Rocket seeds planting information:
| Tropics: | Unlikely to do well |
| Subtropic: | Autumn - Early Winter |
| Mild: | Spring - Autumn |
| Cold/Frost: | Late Spring |
| Plant space cm: | 60-100 |
| Row space cm: | 30 |
| Depth cm: | Cover lightly, keep moist until germinated |
| Best soil temp: | 21-26 °C |
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| Number of seeds per gram: | 470 |
| Average days to maturity: | 70-80 |
