FREE: 200 "Violet Queen" Cleome Seeds

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Cleome (Cleome Hassleriana Violet Queen) - This annual will get your neighbors' attention! Start Cleome seeds to grow this incredibly heat tolerant, showy, flowering plant that has a wonderfully long bloom season. Cleome Hassleriana has another botanical name of Cleome Spinosa. Commonly, Cleome is known as Spider Flower or Grandpa's Whiskers plant. Cleome flower seeds produce big, airy blooms from early summer until frost on compact, bushy plants. Loads of flowers adorn this Cleome plant. The Cleome Hassleriana plant attracts butterflies and hummingbirds and other beneficial insects.
Violet Queen Spider Flower offers big, 4 - 6 inch spidery blooms of violet flowers. They Cleome flowers hold well on the plant and are wonderfully long-lasting as cut flowers in the vase. The dark green foliage is narrow and stylish, too, making an attractive back drop for the big, fluffy blooms.

Tolerant of extreme heat, Cleome plants are very uniformly sized and they flower generously. You can not find too many annuals that will add such color and vibrancy to the flower garden. Sow Spider Flower seeds indoors in late winter for transplanting outdoors after danger of frost. Or sow the flower seeds directly in the garden after danger of frost has passed and the soil temperature has warmed. Do not cover the flower seeds but firmly press them into the soil. Keep the Cleome seeds moist until germination occurs and then water regularly to provide a great start for this prolific bloomer. Spider Flower plants are known to re-seed, dropping their flower seeds for next year's display.