Bachelor Button Plant

Bachelor button plant. Of course you can t control the weather but you can take steps to prevent the soil around your bachelor s buttons from becoming waterlogged. Once planted you will be growing bachelor buttons year after. A true garden classic with 2 wide vivid cornflower blue flowers that possess interesting fringed petals and central black tipped bracts. First as always i prepare the planting bed with a high quality compost.

Bachelor s buttons are prone to rot if roots get too wet. Bachelor s button plant care. Don t plant bachelor s buttons in low areas where water tends to collect. Here are three noteworthy cultivars to consider.

Plant bachelor button flowers in borders rock gardens and sunny areas where they can spread and naturalize. Centaurea cyanus plants have been cultivated for centuries and have picked up many nicknames along the way including bachelor s buttons basket flower bluebonnet blue bottle blue bow blue cap cornflower boutonniere flower and hurt sickle the quick growing flowers will reach a height of about 30 inches and a spread of 10 inches in all growing zones when given a bright spot. Bachelor s buttons are one of the easiest seed plants to grow. Bachelor s buttons tolerate dry soil well and they won t need supplemental watering except during prolonged dry spells.

Centaurea cyanus commonly known as cornflower or bachelor s button is an annual flowering plant in the family asteraceae native to europe in the past it often grew as a weed in cornfields in the broad sense of corn referring to grains such as wheat barley rye or oats hence its name it is now endangered in its native habitat by agricultural intensification particularly over use of. Bachelor button has a long list of names that includes such unusual ones as blue blob cornbottle gogglebuster and hurtsickle. Frilly showy flowers grow on multi branching stems which may reach 2 to 3 feet 60 90 cm. Bachelor s buttons sometimes called cornflower centaurea cyanus grows as a hardy annual flower.

Foliage is an attractive green with a soft silvery fuzz that keeps the deer away. While their ideal soil conditions are a sandy loam these plants tolerant poor soil conditions. The process of growing these plants couldn t be more simple. The blue bachelor s button makes a striking statement in the garden.

Bachelor button flowers are reseeding annuals and blooms may be single or double. The small blue flowers bloom from late spring through late summer. About the perennial bachelor s button. You may prune plants by one third mid season to rejuvenate them and reduce legginess.

Bachelor s button plants don t seem especially particular about their growing conditions in my yard. One name cornflower originated with the plant s tendency to grow as a weed in cornfields in its native europe.