Stock ‘Apricot’
Matthiola incana
Description
Highly fragrant, with full, fluffy blooms, these prized plants thrive in cooler weather. With an elegant, earthy apricot color and a distinctive spicy scent, a few stems of these beauties make a big impact in both gardens and bouquets and fill the air with fragrance. Half of the plants will be single-flowered, the other half double, so plant twice as many as you need.
Details
Height: 18 to 30 in
Site: full sun
Days to maturity: 90 to 100 days
Plant spacing: 6 in
Pinch: do not pinch
Seed Sowing & Growing Notes
Sow multiple seeds per cell indoors 6 weeks before last frost and transplant out while the weather is still cool. Can be succession-planted to stagger the harvest. Don’t pinch plants.
Harvesting/Vase Life
Details
Description
Highly fragrant, with full, fluffy blooms, these prized plants thrive in cooler weather. With an elegant, earthy apricot color and a distinctive spicy scent, a few stems of these beauties make a big impact in both gardens and bouquets and fill the air with fragrance. Half of the plants will be single-flowered, the other half double, so plant twice as many as you need.
Details
Height: 18 to 30 in
Site: full sun
Days to maturity: 90 to 100 days
Plant spacing: 6 in
Pinch: do not pinch
Seed Sowing & Growing Notes
Sow multiple seeds per cell indoors 6 weeks before last frost and transplant out while the weather is still cool. Can be succession-planted to stagger the harvest. Don’t pinch plants.
Harvesting/Vase Life
Sources
How to Grow
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