Love In The Mist Flower

Love in a mist flowers can be used as cut flowers.

Love in the mist flower. Love in a mist is a very delicate ornamental flower with feathery almost fern like leaves. Each flower is 1 inches across with five large petal like sepals and small deeply divided petals hidden beneath the flower s stamens. Nigella damascena commonly called love in a mist is a popular cool weather annual that features solitary blue flowers to 1 1 2 wide atop stems clad with finely cut thread like leaves each solitary flower appears to sit on a bed of lacy and misty foliage hence the common name.

Double flowers appear to peek through the mist in colors of blue pink and white. Love in a mist is a wonderful cottage garden plant and a great filler. This gives the appearance of the flowers being surrounded by a mist hence the romantic name.

Love in a mist flowers are typically bright blue to very pale blue but sometimes may be white pink or lavender. This flower is a favourite for filling in any gaps in flower borders. Like many hardy annuals growing this cut flower is super easy as long as you know the limits of the plants cold hardiness and are willing to wait.

Part of the buttercup family of plants they grow in white blue and pink varieties. Love in a mist is a prolific re seeder. Photograph by maggie mccain via flickr.

Native to southern europe north africa and southwestern asia love in a mist can be found growing wild in meadows fields along roadsides and at the edges of woodlands. One packet will start your obsession and then you can redeem your rewards for years to come. Flower colors include soft shades of white blue and pink love in a mist plants make great bedding plants.

For many years miss jekyll was the only variety available which is a beautiful sky blue colour. They are extremely easy to grow with low maintenance required. Love in a mist plant reaches 15 to 24 inches 28 to 61 cm in height and up to a foot 30 cm in width when adequate room is left in the garden.