Didiscus Blue Lace

The florist’s blue treasure. Didiscus Blue Lace produces hundreds of tiny, star-shaped blooms clustered into flat, lacy lavender-blue umbels — a gentle, sweet fragrance, elegantly curving stems, and a professional-standard vase life of 7–10 days that makes it one of the most coveted cutting flowers in the range. True blue is the rarest colour in the cutting garden, and this delivers it with extraordinary delicacy.

Approximately 50 seeds per packet. Seeds require total darkness to germinate — cover completely.

• Trachymene coerulea — Half-Hardy Annual (H2)
• Height: 60–70cm | Flowers: July–September
• Sow indoors February–April; cover completely — needs darkness
• Full sun; well-drained soil — plant out June, handle roots carefully
• Cut-and-come-again — harvest regularly for more stems
• Vase life 7–10 days

Grow it with Ammi majus for the ultimate romantic, airy border of white and blue lace that looks as though it has been lifted from a Dutch flower painting.