Growing Non-GMO Cleome Queen Mixture Flower Seeds

Queen Mixture are seeds that have wildflower hardiness to them and are most popularly sown outdoors directly after the frost. For earliest spring blooms, begin seeds indoors 6-8 weeks prior and harden them off to a sunny place in the garden. Queen Mixture cleome can be kept indoors with plenty of sunlight. Lightly press 2-3 Queen Mixture cleome seeds 18-24 inches apart into average, medium dry, and well-drained soil in full sun. Do not overwater because cleome will be susceptible to powdery mildew, leaf spots, and rust in overly saturated and poorly drained gardens.

Start the seeds indoors and transplant them once they have true leaves and good roots. Optionally, directly sow these seeds into the garden bed. Cleome blooms from May-June in most climates and will die off at the first frost. There is no need to fertilize unless the soil is particularly barren. Keep weeds down, especially in the early stages, so that the flowers have a chance to establish themselves. Cut back spent blooms.

Cleome Queen Mixture in the Flower Garden

Cleome (Cleome Queen Mixture) is the perfect spring-blooming background plant for your garden bed. In the spring, it showcases its unique spidery flowers. The rest of the year, its lush foliage creates an exotic backdrop for the rest of your landscape. It can also be cut for spring bouquets and arrangements. It has many medicinal and culinary uses, as described below. Use Spider Flower in pollinator gardens. It is attractive to bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies, who love to drink its sweet nectar.

Landscape Use of Cleome Queen Mixture

Use Cleome Queen Mixture as a multifaceted performer in your landscape. The striking blooms are perfect as focal points in the spring and backdrop foliage for the rest of the summer. Queen Mixture cleome seeds are perfect for accenting along walkways, sidings, or adding color around the base of a leafy tree. Queen Mixture cleome seeds are a worldwide favorite certain to delight your home and garden all season long.

About Cleome Queen Mixture Garden Seeds

American Indians and Western settlers used this to treat fevers, stomach disorders, and sore eyes. A poultice is made of crushed leaves and used to reduce swelling and boiled with a rusty iron to be made into a drink to treat anemia.

This plant is not poisonous to animals or humans. Morning doves sometimes eat the seeds.

The Queen Cleome flower has 4-6 inch wide blooms of gorgeous florets.

There are many uses for this beautiful plant: When the leaves have matured, they are harvested, boiled, and eaten as greens. The seeds are edible and ground into flour. Spider flower petals (Flowers of the Genus Cleome are also commonly used as a paint or dye.

Cleome hassleriana, more commonly known as cleome or Spider Flower, is native to Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and southern stretches of Brazil, but has since been naturalized throughout most of Asia. The genus Cleome is one of the most popular varieties of ornamental flowers and has grown to home to nearly 200 different species of cleome.

Tips From Our Gardeners

”Although Cleome is a beautiful cut flower, I recommend leaving it for the pollinators. It is irresistibly attractive in the garden that I can’t bring myself to cut them down!"

- Lara Wadsworth, True Leaf Market Writer

Cleome Queen Mixture Seeds Per Package:

• 50 Seeds
• 500 Seeds
• 1000 Seeds

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