I am growing this from seed – the first time I’ve grown something in the Autumn, not the Spring. I LOVE cerinthe and I bought 4 from Sarah Raven last year. That and sweet peas were the only flowers I got all summer. But they never thrive in my garden. They are spindly and disappear.
I took seed from these at the end of the summer and planted them in September in an old wooden drawer. They all came up! I potted these on. I love them because they look like plants are supposed to look like when you pot them on. All springing upright.
They are now a couple of leaves tall and in my new “greenhouse”. Nemone from Gardening Club says they will live through the winter if I keep them sheltered, maybe just tucked inside other plants. I wonder what will happen to them….
January 2021
Here they are in the “greenhouse”. Don’t they look lovely.
My Garden 