Soft blue Miss Jekyll Love-In-A-Mist flowers with delicate, feathery green foliage in a garden setting.
Delicate light blue Miss Jekyll Love-In-A-Mist flower with finely cut, feathery green foliage.
Top-down view of a pale blue Miss Jekyll Love-In-A-Mist flower surrounded by delicate, feathery green foliage.
Miss Jekyll Love-in-a-Mist plant with delicate blue flowers and a striped seed pod amidst fine, feathery green foliage.
Top-down view of a pale blue Miss Jekyll Love-In-A-Mist flower surrounded by delicate, feathery green foliage.
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Love-In-A-Mist - Nigella Seeds

SKU: FNA101
Open-Pollinated
Heirloom
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Miss Jekyll love-in-a-mist is an heirloom nigella named for the great English garden writer Gertrude Jekyll. It sends soft blue flowers through a mist of finely cut foliage, followed by curious striped seed pods that dry beautifully for arrangements.

This annual is made for cottage gardens, cut flower patches, and self-sown corners where a little surprise is welcome. The airy leaves, delicate blooms, and lantern-like pods give three seasons of interest from one easy sowing.

Scientific name: Nigella damascena
Life cycle: Annual
Days to bloom: 65-80 days from sowing
Plant height: 18-24

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Nigella Growing Basics

Nigella, commonly called Love-in-a-Mist, is a cool-season annual treasured for delicate flowers, finely divided foliage, and distinctive seed pods. It has long held a place in cottage gardens and cutting rows, where the mist-like greenery softens the planting and the unusual pods remain beautiful long after the flowers fade.

Some varieties produce the familiar rounded, balloon-like pods, while others develop taller stems, more finely shaped flowers, and elongated or horned seed capsules. Across both forms, colors range through blue, white, lavender, pink, and smoky purple. Nigella is especially useful for fresh bouquets, dried arrangements, pollinator plantings, and garden rows that are allowed to reseed naturally.

Direct sow nigella in early spring as soon as the soil can be worked. Because it thrives in cool weather and develops a taproot, direct sowing generally produces the strongest plants.

For earlier blooms, seed can also be sown in late summer or fall in regions with mild winters, allowing plants to overwinter and flower earlier the following spring. Successive sowings every few weeks in spring provide an extended season of flowers and decorative seed pods.

Sow seeds about ⅛–¼ inch deep in prepared soil and keep evenly moist until germination, which usually occurs within 10–14 days under cool conditions.

Nigella dislikes root disturbance, so direct sow whenever possible. Thin seedlings to 6–10 inches apart to allow plants to branch and produce abundant flowers and seed pods.

Plant nigella in full sun to light afternoon shade in fertile, well-drained soil. Cool spring weather encourages the strongest growth and longest flowering period, while excessive summer heat naturally shortens the season.

Water regularly while plants establish, then only during extended dry periods. Avoid excessive fertilizer, which encourages leafy growth at the expense of flowers and seed pod production.

Nigella attracts bees, hoverflies, and other beneficial insects while blending beautifully with larkspur, bachelor’s buttons, poppies, foxgloves, and other cottage garden flowers.

Harvest flowering stems once the first blooms have fully opened. Nigella adds soft texture and a loose, meadow-like quality to fresh bouquets.

For dried arrangements, harvest seed pods once they are fully formed but still green to lightly straw-colored. Rounded and elongated pod types both dry well, though their shapes bring noticeably different textures to bouquets, wreaths, and seasonal arrangements.

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