Rose Campion

This flower has an intense blue color.

Rose campion. Rose Campion Scientific Name. Light green-grey felted leaves offset by bright pink blooms makes this flowering beauty a great choice for flower gardens and landscaping. Deadhead for a more extended season of bloom or cut down after bloom if you want to curtail its spreading by dropped seed.

The plants prefer full sun but tolerate partial shade where they produce fewer blossoms. Moist well-drained soil is ideal for this perennial but. This product is currently out of stock and unavailable.

A clump-forming perennial but often grown as a biennial as it is short lived but does seed itself. Rose Campion is right at home in cottage gardens and drier meadow gardens the brilliant beacons of bloom standing out especially when grown in large drifts. Known by the scientific name of Lychnis coronaria Rose Campion has been used for decoration of the garden for a reasonably long time.

Lychnis Atrosanguinea - Common nameRose Campion - The deep magenta flowers of Rose Campion provide excellent color contrast with its stunning silver-woolly leaves. The combination of silver and magenta is awesome. Rose Campion Moisture Well-drained Aspect Full Sun Spread 45cm 18in Cultivation Sow under cover February-May andor September-November.

Abundant upright narrowly branched stems of magenta pink flowers. The flowers of Lychnis open one at a time on branched silver stems but they do so over a long blooming period in summer. The bright hot pink rose-colored flowers add great contrast and appear late spring to early summer.

Surface sow onto moist well-drained seed compost. As its name suggests this plant has rose-colored flowers that can grow up to 3 feet in height. This group in the pink family Caryophyllaceae is closely related to and is sometimes included in the genus Silene.