How To grow Nigella | Love In A Mist
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2023
- In this video I pass on everything I could think of about growing nigella damascena also known as love in a mist. It's one of my absolute favourite flowers. It has been a really successful cool flower to grow in my cutting garden here in Scotland, zone 8b. Nigella are easy to grow from seed and care for in your garden. I have grown them since I started my cut flower garden in 2014. In this video I share everything I have learned throughout the growing seasons about these amazing flowers.
In this video we look at:
Why grow nigella?
What varieties do I grow?
How to grow nigella from seed
Do they need supporting?
What spacing do they need?
Do you pinch out nigella?
Do you need to deadhead nigella?
What kind of growing conditions do they like and do they need fed?
How do I harvest and condition nigella?
Are they good for flower arranging or wedding work?
Some of my favourite nigella are Miss Jekyll Dark Blue, Nigella Persian Jewels, Miss Jekyll white, Nigella Mulberry Rose . What are your favourite nigella to grow?
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Love those flowers Love in the mist but mine did grow so glad showed your way
Hi, thanks so much for watching. Nigella is a super flower. I am glad you enjoy growing it so much too.
This info was exactly what I needed. 1st time growing Nigella. Thank you very much!😊
Thanks so much for watching and I hope you get on really well growing your nigella this year.
I'm really enjoying these individual plant tutorials and getting lots of helpful tips, thank you
Thanks so much. If there are any flowers you would like an individual video on I am looking for ideas for next year that I can film over the next few months.
Hi, I'd love a growing and cutting guide for snap dragons, larkspur and hespirus. I've struggled with even nasturtiums... wondering if it can sometimes be too hot for some seeds to germinate?
Thank you so much. What a great video.
Thank you very much for watching. I am
Really glad you liked the video all about nigella. It’s such a great flower to include in a cutting garden.
Thank you so much. This beautiful flower showed up in my wildflower garden & I have fallen in love with it ❤️
Thanks so much for watching. I am glad you enjoyed it. Nigella is a beautiful flower 😊
Thank You. Just got some Miss Jekyll seeds.. This helped. Bless.
Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy growing your miss Jekyll seeds. Nigella is a fantastic flower.
Excellent video! Very informative!
Hello and thanks so much for watching. I am really glad you found it helpful.
I am in Canada and i love your videos!
Hi Becca, thanks so much for watching from Canada 🇨🇦 I am really glad you are enjoying the videos x
Great, comprehensive video Catherine 🎉 I've just planted out my seedlings (it's nearly winter here) and fleeced them. I'll also sow some in pots for greenhouse overwintering... They add a lovely lacy, delicate texture to bouquets !
That’s great you have got all your seedlings planted out and ready for overwintering. How cold does it get for you over the winter? Over the next few weeks I am going to get most things out including the dahlias which I am excited to see again soon.
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm I think the coldest I've seen is -7 so not as cold as you up there in Scotland... We'd routinely get to -1 to -3 though.. Winter hasn't really arrived yet here of course !
That's colder than I thought it would get for you so you probably do protect plants with fleece etc at times over the winter.
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm I should have mentioned I'm up at 700m above sea level, so it's sub-alpine. Not usual for Australia at all.
The jewels mix is nice
Yes it is a great mix of nice flowers and colours. Thanks for watching.
Hello! I am really enjoying my nigella! The arctic blast last December took out a good many of my nigella seedlings, but a few have survived, and a later succession has started to bloom too. They are quite unique flowers. Your arrangements are so beautiful!
They are unique flowers, so lovely and great you have a few winter survivors in bloom already. Love them 💕 🌸
I love Nigella! discovered it as a weed because of the periwinkle color, intricate petal & spikes bloom & trippy Opium Poppy type pod. I kept the seeds so am excited to learn all about planting them from you. I’m on the San Francisco Bay (literally) but have a large garden with l;it’s of sun, seasonal winds & occasional cool nights.
I hope you get on well with your nigella seeds and get some lovely flowers. Thanks so much for watching. Nigella is a really lovely unique flower to grow.
Morning Catherine, great informative video. We have the same colours in Australia but also a type called Transformer which is yellow and an unusual shape. We are just about starting winter here and our soil is cold. I have thrown some seeds in the garden some weeks ago but I don’t see any results yet too cold or cheeky black birds have had a feed. It’s good to know I can try them indoors. I’ll try them in soil blocks so I don’t disturb the roots.
They will probably pop up in the spring if they don’t germinate now, if the blackbirds didn’t get them. I just had to look up the transformer variety you mentioned as I had never heard of it. It’s really different isn’t it and a nice sunny yellow colour. I wonder if we can get it in the UK. Are you overwintering many flowers this year?
Hi Catherine. Well done, again! I have a lovely patch of the blues and whites blooming in 6b St. Louis, Missouri USA. Some smaller plants wintered over, to my surprise! I didn't fall plant so I think it must have been from early reseeding from the early blooms in Spring of 2022. Which type of flower press do you use?
Thank you, your patch of blue and white nigella sounds lovely. Early re seedings are so lovely to find in the garden. I use a couple of flower presses, one large traditional wooden one with blotting paper and one 9" microfleur one for the microwave too.
Hi Catherine, fabulous informative content once again. Can I just ask, if I am growing it predominately for seed pods to make wreaths in autumn do I wait to cut until the pod has formed or do I cut when it’s in flower and let the pod form in the vase? Thanks xxx
Hi, thanks Lindsey I am glad you enjoyed this weeks video. I cut for seed pods when they have formed jn the garden at the stage where they are green. The seed pods are amazing!
I would like to see you make these jar arrangement.
Thanks for watching. I will get some videos of nigella going into some summer jars later this year. I have a couple of videos on spring and summer jar arrangements you can find on my channel if you would like to see them too.
Loved rewatching this! sitting on my hands, as this is my favourite cut flower. When would be the earliest to start sowing this indoors? I have grow lights in a cool basement or the green house. Thank you
I just love nigella too! I am doing the same trying to be good and do no January seed sowing! For me I try to wait until mid Feb for the change to around 10ths daylight. That is without grow lights though so potentially you could start earlier if you have these. It depends on how long you want to be looking after seedlings indoors too but luckily nigella are quite tough so you can get them out earlier in March or April. I have found over the years there has been no real advantage to starting seeds off earlier and they tend to germinate and come on faster if I just hold off until February.
thank you for sharing @@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm
Hi there! Do you ever make the Nigella Damascena absolute essential oil by chance?
Hello 😊 No I haven’t ever tried making essential oils before. Thanks for watching x
So how do you press your flowers? I saw on HGTV where they used a press in the microwave for instant results.
I have a traditional flower press I use but I do use a microwave flower press as well which has transformed pressing flowers for me as it does speed the whole process up. I definitely recommend them. The only thing you need to do with them is do it very slowly in short bursts as it is easy to overdo and lose the flowers. You quickly learn what works for different flowers with your own microwave though.
Hi, love these, can they be grown in pots?
Hi Linda, yes they can easily be grown in pots. They don’t get too tall and can be spaced closer than other annuals which works well for pots.
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I live in WASHINGTON STATE USA. I think the birds dropped them off. These things are Super cool. But the Deer like them
Hi and thanks so much for watching. It is a good self seeder so you could well have birds dropping them off and then springing up from that. Deer can eat so much of the flowers in a garden, how do you manage to keep them from eating everything? Do you have areas you have to fence?
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm We have 5 big dog's now. And 2 donkeys
Hi. Sorry for bad english as it is not my first language. A friend send me its seeds. We have long summers, 1 month mild winter (minimum temperature goes to 9 degree Celsius) and we have harsh summers. I do grow lots of vegetables both summer and winter vegetables but winter have a very small window. So should I sow the nigella seeds when I sow winter vegetable seeds or should I sow its seeds when I sow summer vegetable seeds. Please guide. Thanks
Hello, thanks for watching. Nigella take about 3 1/2 to 4 months to flower from
seed sowing. They will flower best in sunny but not that hot weather as they are a hardy annual. If your summers get very hot nigella would be best flowering before it got too hot for them.Flower production can decline in extreme heat. So you would be best to sow the flower seeds in the autumn and over winter or sow in late winter for flowering early summer before the worst of the heat.
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm noted thank you
Do they need dead heading to keep them blooming?
Yes they do need dead heading to encourage new blooms but then you miss the wonderful seedpods so it depends what you want to use the plant for. You could dead head half your plants to encourage more flowers and leave the other half to go to seed to make use of the amazing pods.
I appreciate your video.
Thanks very much.
@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm Welcome Mam