Lobelia siphilitica seeds- (Great Blue Lobelia)

Description

Picture thanks to Jelitto Seeds

This plant has bright blue flowers on tall stems, and flowers in its first year from seed. It makes and excellent cut flower, and is a lovely plant for the garden, and looks good in a perennial border. It flowers in late summer and autumn, and is a hardy plant for the garden once established.  It likes moist soils, which are well drained and so does well on the banks of streams. It attracts bees and butterflies, and is frost hardy.

Sowing advice

Sow in pots or trays, in  late winter to spring (for flowering the same year) or in spring to late summer (for flowering the next year).
As the seeds are very fine, mix them with fine sand , or even some talcum powder to make them easier to spread.  Sow seeds on the surface of moist seed raising mix. Don’t cover the seeds as light is required for germination. Ideal temp 20 deg C. Seal the pot or tray in a plastic bag until germination starts which will be in about 2 weeks. Prick out the seedlings into bigger pots after about 3 weeks. Plant out after all danger of frost has gone.