Nigella Love In A Mist Flower
Love in a mist nigella damascena a pretty plant with a romantic name is native to north africa and southern europe.
Nigella love in a mist flower. Nigella love in a mist is an annual flower with threadlike foliage above each flower. These are supported by a thread like leaf structure known as a ruff on the cultivar love in a mist plant. Flowers of growing nigella are surrounded by a series of bracts. Nigella damascena love in a mist ragged lady or devil in the bush is an annual garden flowering plant belonging to the buttercup family ranunculaceae.
Once you see n. Easy going nigella makes its self at home in any old fashioned garden. Blue mauve pink purple and white blooms clothed in a lacy netting of greenery. One of about 15 species in the genus nigella love in a mist is native to southern europe and northern africa.
It is native to southern europe but adventive in more northern countries of europe north africa and southwest asia where it is found on neglected damp patches of land. Double flowers appear to peek through the mist in colors of blue pink and white. Love in a mist nigella damascena is a charming old fashioned annual in the buttercup family ranunculaceae that blooms in spring and early summer. Heirloom favorite for fresh or dried flowers.
Damascena in bloom you will always recognize it by its unique mist of airy bracts and foliage. Sativa is grown for its aromatic seeds. Several are cultivated in gardens and one n. Nigella nigella damascena earns the common name love in a mist because of the tangle of ferny fennel like foliage that forms a mist around the flowers.
It is one of about twenty species in the genus all of them annual herbs from the mediterranean region. Easily grown blossoms in soft colors have a delicate look. Beautiful blooms and unusual seed pods.