5616 x 3744 px | 47,5 x 31,7 cm | 18,7 x 12,5 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
29 juin 2014
Lieu:
Beckenham Place Park, Lewisham, London.
Informations supplémentaires:
Catananche caerulea, otherwise known as Cupid's Dart is a charming plant. It was historically used in love potions, hence the name, and still symbolises love in the language of flowers. “Amor White” produces stunning blooms of white, star like flowers each with a dark purple-blue eye and unique papery petals. The blooms rise on single stems above neat clumps of grey-green foliage, the strong stems hold up to wind and rain. This beautiful fast-growing perennial is very easy to grow and is often used as an annual. Super planted the garden border, they also make a wonderful show in containers and a long lasting cut flower. Native to the dry meadows of Southwest Europe and Italy, these tough plants are hardy to minus 30°C (-22°F) they thrive in average to poor soil and laugh at drought and hot summer sun. They look best when grown in groupings, rather than one or two plants and don’t mind crowding. Use it en-masse in prairie style plantings, mixed with echinacea, and rudbeckia. Cupids Dart can also be grown with grasses in a meadow garden. The showy violet-blue perennial flower of the aster family Catananche caerulea bears the common names Cupid's dart, blue cupidone, and cerverina. It is a garden flower and is often used in dried flower arrangements. The plant grows in clumps of narrow grey-green leaves, and later in the summer sends up long stems at the end of which bloom bright cornflower blue to lavender flowers with rectangular, fringed petals and deep purple centers. The closed buds are soft and silver and the bracts form a papery cup beneath the opened blossom. It is native to the Mediterranean region. The flower was supposedly used by the ancient Greeks as a key ingredient in a love potion, hence the common name "Cupid's dart".
