Planting and growing Cornflower on Balcony
In this video I am going to plant and grow cornflower on the balcony. I plant this at the end of March, at this time of year the temperature is around 5 to 10 degrees and therefore can take longer than usual to grow. Also it is in the flower box on the balcony, if you plant on the ground, the results can be even better than you see here.
Cornflower is an annual plant growing to 40-90 cm tall, with grey-green branched stems. The leaves are lanceolate, 1-4 cm long. The flowers are most commonly an intense blue colour, produced in flowerheads (capitula) 1.5-3 cm diameter, with a ring of a few large, spreading ray florets surrounding a central cluster of disc florets. The blue pigment is protocyanin, which in roses is red. It flowers all summer.