Dyer's Chamomile Seeds - Anthemis tinctoria - Cottage Garden Flower/Dye Plant
| Type: | Hardy Perennial |
| Approximate height: | Up to 1 metre |
| Flowering Time: | Summer |
| Site and soil type: | Light and well-drained soil in sun |
| When to sow: | Spring to early autumn |
| Where to sow: | Outside, direct into soil or under cover, modules or pots. |
| Packet contents: | Approximately 250 seeds / 0.17 g |
Very pretty yellow, (and sometimes pale yellow or cream), daisy-like flowers in summer held above very attractive, fragrant, finely cut leaves.
This is a real favourite with Bumblebees in our garden.
It can also used as a dye plant when it produces a brownish-yellow shade.
Dyer's Chamomile attracts and provides food for many different species including:
- Bumblebees
- Solitary bees
- Hoverflies
- Bats🦇
- An "RHS Plants for Pollinators" plant **
All our seed packets include sowing instructions.
Jemima’s Garden seeds are plastic free and reyclable. They’re contained in an inner glassine envelope, (made from pine wood cellulose), and an outer Kraft paper seed packet. Any shipping packaging is also plastic free and recyclable.
** RHS Plants for Pollinators. The RHS Plants for Pollinators mark is only given to plants that support pollinating insects. Find out more at rhs.org.uk/plantsforpollinators
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