Greeting Cards - Love-in-a-Mist - Nigella damascena Miss Jekyll
Hardy Annual. Flowers: Summer

The wonderfully-named Love-in-a-mist is grown for its flowers, its foliage, its seedpods. ‘Miss Jekyll’, named after that dame of British gardening, has plump rich blue flowers that stand out above soft, ferny foliage. Flowering in the height of Summer, the curiously shaped flowers give way to attractive, candy-striped seedheads. These contain tiny black seeds, that give the plant its botanical name, Nigella, from the latin word niger, meaning black. This is a plant that is easy to grow. Being Mediterranean in origin, it needs a sunny open space to thrive, but will be happy even in a poor soil. The flowers can be cut lasting well in water, and the seedpods, with their spiny, architectural shape, are useful for dried flower arrangements.