Nemesia Seventh Heaven Seeds

Nemesia Seventh Heaven is a beautiful cultivar of Nemesia, featuring for the first time varieties with sizable, bicoloured flowers grown from seed. In just a few months, this Nemesia forms small, bushy, compact, branched clumps, covered with scented flowers in a mixture of lavender, white, violet and purple with a little pale yellow centre. This remarkable annual plant which flowers almost continuously from June to October creates a prodigous visual and olfactory effect in hanging baskets and planters.

Nemesia is a tender perennial or annual plant of the Scrophulariaceae family, native to South Africa. Through crossbreeding between different species, this plant is at the origin of many horticultural varieties whose performance in terms of quantity, quality and durability is constantly being improved. The cultivars in the 'Seventh Heaven' mix, grown from seed, have recently been selected for their large, bicoloured, fragrant flowers. This rather fantastic creation offers an almost continuous, fragrant flowering from May to October on low, well-branched plants that grow up to 30 cm high and 35 cm in diameter.

These compact Nemesia produce a multitude of ravishing tiny symmetrical flowers, 1-2 cm in size and whose colour varies from plant to plant. White, mauve, lavender, violet or purplish, they are bicoloured and centred on a golden yellow throat that is noticeable from afar. This exuberant flowering exhales a very pleasant scent of honey and coconut that attracts pollinating insects. Gathered at the tips of robust, leafy stems, these flowers seem to float on graceful clumps with a dense, rounded and upright habit. The foliage is made up of small, lanceolate, finely serrated, greyish green leaves. Very resistant to wind and rain, these cape jewels are hardy down to -3°C.

From the first days of spring, the radiant or pastel colours of Nemesia brighten the flowerbeds of our cities and villages. On our patios and in our gardens, these refreshing plants with their extremely graceful habit which is dense and light all at once, perfectly adorn hanging baskets, window boxes, all types of basins and even perennial beds, preferably in full sun. They are easy to grow in the garden and give spectacular results when they are planted in containers. Use them in borders, in a mix of different colours or in combination with geraniums, lobelias, annual Verbena and petunias etc... Reserve a spot for it near a passageway, on a patio or terrace, along the edges of paths or in any place where one can fully take advantage of its coconut fragrance. Nemesia combine particularly well with Dorotheanthe difformis with which they share the same origins and the same beautiful ground cover qualities.

Careful, seeds are reserved for very experienced gardeners that are used to sowing very fine seeds. These seeds are as fine as dust and are barely visible to the naked eye.