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Growing Tips:

  • Likes full sun

  • This combination of plants is best for fall and early spring since they like cooler daytime temperatures and nighttime temperatures below 68 degrees F (20 degrees C)

  • Can take some light frost, but won't survive harsh winter climates

  • Remove old flowers on Pansies

  • Pinch back Pansies and Alyssum to keep full

  • Allow Stock flowers to bloom to the top, when entire spike is dead, remove

  • Feed monthly with a water-soluble fertilizer. Hydrolyzed fish fertilizer mixed with kelp works wonders



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Planting Guide:



Container is round in shape

Dimensions: 12 x 12 inches (30-30 cm)


Plant Names & Comments:

  1. Stock
    (Matthiola incana)
    Spicy, sweet-smelling annual with flowers that come in shades of white, pink, red, purple, lavender, blue, yellow and cream

  2. Stock
    (Matthiola incana)
    Spicy, sweet-smelling annual with flowers that come in shades of white, pink, red, purple, lavender, blue, yellow and cream

  3. Sweet Alyssum
    (Lobularia maritima)
    Gives a profusion of clusters of purple, sweet-smelling flowers

  4. Pansy
    (Viola x wittrockiana)
    Cool weather annual, comes in too many flower colors and variations to mention here


1. Stock - Purple



2. Stock - Pink



3. Sweet Alyssum - Purple



4. Pansy - Purple & Yellow



 
 




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