Wildflowers
Poterium sanguisorba - Salad Burnet
Salad Burnet
As the name suggests a culinary herb with cucumber scented and flavoured foliage used since 16th century. Highly attractive to pollinators and a host plant for breeding butterflies. Winter hardy and drought tolerant.
- Plant type
- Perennial
- Position
- Full to partial sun
- Height
- 60cm
- Spread
- 30cm
Growing calendar
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Sow indoors
Sow outdoors
Flowering
Sowing & growing
Sow indoors Sep-May in well drained compost, ideally in modules as they do not like root disturbance. Add light covering of seed compost and germinate at 15-20°C. Once germinated, grow-on in cooler temperatures. Alternatively sow outside Mar-May or Sep-Oct in prepared fine tilth, keep well watered and thin seedlings to 20-30cm apart.
Aftercare
Keep well watered until established, it's long tap root will then make it drought tolerant
Gallery
Ref. SES043