Silene - Blushing Lanterns
Plants
One of my absolute favourite late spring airy flowers, with sprays of green & blushy ballon-like pods with white petals. Creates an absolutely beautifully frothy sight when planted en masse!
Stems hold best if harvested after the very first flower's petals have fallen, and the rest of the spray are putting on their show.
Silene is an annual with perennial tendencies. If kept from going to seed it will stick around for another season, but if let go to seed it will likely die out, but it does such a good job at self seeding it will come back year after year one way or another.
Also know as Bladder Campion.
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To cover the costs of our customs boxes we do however have a minimum plant order of $65 (approx. 7 plants) – you can mix & match any plants or sleeve specials to meet the minimum. (Plant Collection Boxes are however standalone boxes and do not count towards the minimums).
If you want to make the most of the shipping, our plant boxes can fit up to 10 plants per box, and for the most cost effective per plant shipping we can tape two boxes together (which fits 20 plants total).
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Silene vulgaris
Plant Type: Short Lived Perennial
Ideal Location: Full Sun / Partial Shade
Spacing: 25-30cm
Height: 40cm