Flower / Warm season
Tall Double Mix Strawflower
Cut-flower beds and low-water annual color.
Papery blooms for fresh and dried arrangements.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 80
- Germination temperature
- 65-80F
- Seed depth
- 0.125 inches
- Spacing
- 12 inches
- Row spacing
- 18 inches
- Start method
- Either
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 6 weeks before last frost
- Direct sow
- 7 days after last frost
- Transplant
- 7 days after last frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 28 days
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Direct sow or transplant depending on your soil warmth, bed readiness, and frost-risk plan.
- How much space?
- 12 inches in-row spacing, 18 inches between rows, and 0.125 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use this as part of a diverse flowering or herb planting, and treat companion claims as site-specific rather than guaranteed pest control.
- Common failure modes?
- Harvest for drying before flowers are fully open. Moderate water while establishing; tolerates drier soil later. Well-drained soil with moderate fertility.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Moderate water while establishing; tolerates drier soil later.
- Soil
- Well-drained soil with moderate fertility.
- Watch
- Harvest for drying before flowers are fully open.
- cut-flowers
- drying
- warm-season
- containers
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