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Stokesia Collection

Common name: Stokes Aster

You will add a splash of colour to your garden with this extraordinary blue-flowered perennial.

-5 to -10°C

Good Cut Flowers

Good for Pollinators

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9cm Pots

	3 for £21.00	just £7.00 each
	9 for £42.00	just £4.67 each
	15 for £58.00	just £3.87 each

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One of our favourite discoveries of recent years is stokesia, a member of the daisy family resembling a shorter, stockier cornflower. Throughout summer a profusion of striking, fringed flowers adorns the naturally rounded cushions of leathery, strap-like, semi-evergreen foliage. A magnet for bees and butterflies as well as excellent cut flowers, these unusual plants make an intriguing addition to the front of a border, edge of a path, or container display. For this collection we have brought together three exciting and different varieties. 'Divinity' has pure white flowers, 'Mels Blue' has violet, cornflower-blue blooms, and 'Mega Mels' is a showier, larger version of this with flowers reaching up to 10-12cm across. Stokesia is typically found towards the edge of conifer woods throughout SE USA. For best results, grow in fertile, moist, well-draining, neutral to acid soil in sull sun. Avoid areas prone to winter waterlogging, and provide a dry winter mulch if you can. Stokesia is hardy to between -5 and -10 C, so able to cope with the average UK winter. H: 40cm S: 40cm.

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Included In this Collection	Stokesia Divinity 9cm pot	Stokesia Mega Mels 9cm pot	Stokesia Mel's Blue 9cm pot
Latin Name	Stokesia Divinity 9cm pot
Common Name	Stokes Aster
Hardiness	H4 (-5 to -10°C)
Colour	White
Type	Perennial
Format	9cm Pots
Position	Full-Sun
Foliage	Semi-Evergreen
Height in Maturity (m)	0.50
Spread in Maturity (m)	0.30
Soil Conditions	Chalk Clay Loam
Soil Acidity	Acid Neutral
Aspect	East-facing, South-facing, West-facing
Drought Tolerant	Yes
Good for pots	Yes
Good for wildlife	Yes
Good for pollinators	Yes
Good for cutting	Yes
Latin Name	Stokesia Mega Mels 9cm pot
Common Name	Stokes Aster
Hardiness	H4 (-5 to -10°C)
Colour	Purple
Type	Perennial
Format	9cm Pots
Position	Full-Sun
Foliage	Evergreen
Height in Maturity (m)	0.40
Spread in Maturity (m)	0.30
Soil Conditions	Chalk Sand Loam
Soil Acidity	Acid Neutral
Aspect	East-facing, South-facing, West-facing
Drought Tolerant	Yes
Good for pots	Yes
Good for wildlife	Yes
Good for pollinators	Yes
Good for cutting	Yes
Latin Name	Stokesia Mel's Blue 9cm pot
Common Name	Stokes Aster
Hardiness	H4 (-5 to -10°C)
Colour	Purple
Type	Perennial
Format	9cm Pots
Position	Full-Sun
Foliage	Semi-Evergreen
Height in Maturity (m)	0.50
Spread in Maturity (m)	0.30
Soil Conditions	Chalk Clay Loam
Soil Acidity	Acid Neutral
Aspect	East-facing, South-facing, West-facing
Drought Tolerant	Yes
Good for pots	Yes
Good for wildlife	Yes
Good for pollinators	Yes
Good for cutting	Yes