Strawflower - Apricot Salmon

Name: STRAWFLOWER - Apricot Salmon - PLANTS
Brand: Emerden
SKU: P-Straw-Apr-7
Price: 9.0 NZD
Availability: OutOfStock

Plants

$9.00

The perfect mix of peach, salmon + apricot tones with their cheery golden centres.

Strawflowers are the absolute workhorses of the cutting garden, flowering all season long, and then dried they will last for seemingly ever.

Due to the short week next week (Labour Weekend), plant orders to Rural or South Island addresses will be shipped on Monday 4th November.

Please note, we have a minimum plant order of $45 (approx. 5 plants) – you can mix & match any plants to meet the minimum.

Our plant boxes can fit up to 10 plants per box.

Plant orders are shipped on Mondays (& Tuesdays).

See our Shipping Page for more info.

Helichrysum monstrosum

Plant Type: Hardy-ish Annual

Ideal Location: Full Sun

Spacing: 30cm

Height: 80+cm

Strawflowers can be planted in Autumn to overwinter and flower earlier, while they can handle light to medium frosts they do resent wet feet and I personally lose a few plants throughout our wet winters, so if you'd like a better survival rate a mid-late Spring sowing might be best.

You can pinch out the centres at about 30cm, or alternatively, skip pinching and just harvest the first larger flower very deep.

Kept harvested/deadheaded they will flower all season long.

HARVEST

Strawflowers can be a little wilty when harvested too early, so leave them till they start opening up and their centres show for the best results

If drying however it is better to harvest a little earlier, before their centres open as they will keep opening after they're cut.

Flowers close up on cloudy days.