Bachelor Button Tall Blue

This cool weather loving flower offers upright plants that produce abundant double and semidouble 1–1 1/2" blooms in a classic blue. Also known as cornflower, garden cornflower, and bachelor's buttons.

Edible Flowers: Use the petals of this great edible flower for decorating desserts. Centaurea is also a popular choice for brightening up salad mix. Flavor is bland and mildly floral.

Centaurea cyanus
Full Sun / Part Shade
Seed Depth: 1/4"
Plant Spacing: 6-8"
Height: 30-36"
Harvest: 65-75 days

Direct seed (recommended): Sow seeds thinly in rows, 6 seeds per foot, 1/4" deep, as soon as soil can be worked. Cover lightly. Keep soil surface moist until emergence. When seedlings have first true leaves, thin to 6-9" apart.

Min seed count varies
Large seeds - ~5
Med seeds - ~10-15
Small seeds - ~20-30
Tiny seeds - ~25-50