Description
Heirloom! The honeybees share our love for these old-fashioned, dainty, cheery blooms. We like adding a dash of blue to most bouquets, often a hard color to come by in the flower garden, but Blue Jubilee Gem comes through! The 2″ edible blossoms add beauty atop any baked good or salad and are drought tolerant and deer resistant. Blue Jubilee Gem Bachelor’s Buttons plants average 2′ and are satisfyingly easy to grow. It won the All-American Selections silver medal in 1937, cementing its status in US garden history. Also called Cornflower, this once wild plant was named for its proliferation among European corn fields. The term Bachelor Button was adopted after men supposedly began using them in the buttonholes of their suits, indicating they were in love or ready for courting. Brought to the US in the 17th century.
Days to Maturity: 60
Latin name: Centaurea cyanus
Life cycle for seed saving: Annual
Planting Instructions:
Direct seed Blue Jubilee Gem Bachelor’s Buttons 6 seeds/ft in full sun as soon as soil can be worked in spring or start indoors 4-6weeks before last frost. Seed depth 1/4.” Thin plants or transplant at 6-9″. Row spacing 12″.
For more tips on when to plant flowers check out our NW Flower Planting Calendar!
All of our seed is Non-GMO and Certified Organic by Washington State Department of Agriculture. We grow the majority of our varieties here at Deep Harvest Farm on Whidbey Island while we purchase the rest from other small, organic Northwest seed growers. Finally, all of our offerings are open-pollinated (OP) so that you too can save and share seed from these plants!
