Our Centaurea Flower seeds have been grown in the United States since Colonial times, originally brought from Europe by our ancestors. Centaurea has many names: Cornflowers, Basket Flowers, Blue Bottles or Bachelor’s Buttons, which is the most common. Besides being worn as boutonnieres by our ancestors, Bachelor Buttons are also edible, adding wonderful color to salads and making decorative garnishes for plates. You can decorate cakes with them!
Centaurea, pronounced sen-taw-REE-uh, are available as both an annual and a perennial, the blossoms being both single and double. Having thistle-like flowers, with rolled quills showing off frilly ends and embellished eyes, they are tremendously showy, coming in a variety of attractive single and multihued varieties. Unlike thistles, there is nothing “prickly” about them. They are drought tolerant once established; in fact they thrive with infrequent watering. Bachelor’s Buttons are also exceptionally long lasting as a cut flower and can be dried for everlasting arrangements. As with all bloomers, they will perform their best on a regular feeding schedule, though these are one of the few that will become vegetative with too much food. We suggest you feed at 1/3 to 1/2 the suggested amount with a supplement specifically designed for blooming plants. We recommend Jungle Flora or Espoma Flower-tone®, both of which are organically rich and specially formulated for blooming plants.
Each order of our fresh Centaurea seeds is filled by hand, put into a resealable plastic bag and then placed into a labeled seed packet. It is our goal to provide our customers the best in freshness and quality.
