Stokesia laevis | Peachies Pick Growing bulbs harvesting and arranging gorgeous blooms

harvesting and arranging gorgeous blooms year-round gives you vital tools to nurture a stunning flower garden and use your blossoms to create show stopping arrangements

delicate little plant that is great to use to plant over the top of bulbs to hide the foliage as it dies back

often we find ours is semi-deciduous

Part shade is particularly appreciated in hotter areas

Can be divided in spring or early autumn and will often self-sow

Stokesia laevis | Peachies Pick Growing bulbs harvesting and arranging gorgeous bloomsThis variety of Stokesia also known as Stokes Aster is actually a North American native wildflower which has beautiful lavender blue flowers that are shaggy not unlike a cornflower. The plant is actually named after the plantswoman Peachie Saxton from Mississippi who discovered it. This evergreen perennial is stunning in the garden is both drought tolerant once established as well as being frost tolerant. Stokes Aster is actually a North American