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Seseli gummiferum - MOON CARROT
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SES-GUM
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Alien-like looking biennial or short-lived perennial.
Unusual branching, silver lacy leaves and large sphaerical umbells that start white and change to mauvy pink.
Easy to grow, but the key to success is drained soils!
Great cut flower, pollinator very friendly.
Blooming Time: July - early fall
Size: 3' tall and 2.5' wide
USDA Zones: 5-8
Culture: full sun, average soil that drains well, drained soils - gravel, rocky or sandy soils, preferably alkaline soils. Drought tolerant.
Moisture Needs: dry, medium-dry, medium
Origin: Greece, Turkey, Aegean Islands, Crimea
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: only moderately resistant/ yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: bees, butterflies, flies, wasps and beeles. Swallowtail Butterfly catterillar will feed on this plant.
Attracts Hummingbirds: no
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" perennial pot (1.22 pt/580 ml)
Plant combinations: Drier or dry beds, rock gardens, edges of sunny beds. Good companions include shorter Agastache, Asclepias tuberosa, dwarf Baptisia, Callirhoe, Coreopsis, Dalea, shorter cultivars of Echinacea, Eryngium, shorter Gaura, Gaillardia, Liatris, Monarda bradburiana, Penstemons, Phlox subulata, Verbena canadensis, prairie grasses like Schizachyrium scoparium, Sporolobus heterolepis, Stipa etc. Suitable non-native perennials can be Acanthus, Ashodelina, Campanula, Centaurea montana, Dictamnus, Eryngium, Knautia macedonica, Kniphophia, Iris x germanica, Iris tectorum, Lavandula, Stachys, Veronica spicata etc.
Pictures copyright : Mark Wessel
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Seseli gummiferum - MOON CARROT
$9.99
Alien-like looking biennial or short-lived perennial.
Unusual branching, silver lacy leaves and large sphaerical umbells that start white and change to mauvy pink.
Easy to grow, but the key to success is drained soils!
Great cut flower, pollinator very friendly.
Blooming Time: July - early fall
Size: 3' tall and 2.5' wide
USDA Zones: 5-8
Culture: full sun, average soil that drains well, drained soils - gravel, rocky or sandy soils, preferably alkaline soils. Drought tolerant.
Moisture Needs: dry, medium-dry, medium
Origin: Greece, Turkey, Aegean Islands, Crimea
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: only moderately resistant/ yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: bees, butterflies, flies, wasps and beeles. Swallowtail Butterfly catterillar will feed on this plant.
Attracts Hummingbirds: no
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" perennial pot (1.22 pt/580 ml)
Plant combinations: Drier or dry beds, rock gardens, edges of sunny beds. Good companions include shorter Agastache, Asclepias tuberosa, dwarf Baptisia, Callirhoe, Coreopsis, Dalea, shorter cultivars of Echinacea, Eryngium, shorter Gaura, Gaillardia, Liatris, Monarda bradburiana, Penstemons, Phlox subulata, Verbena canadensis, prairie grasses like Schizachyrium scoparium, Sporolobus heterolepis, Stipa etc. Suitable non-native perennials can be Acanthus, Ashodelina, Campanula, Centaurea montana, Dictamnus, Eryngium, Knautia macedonica, Kniphophia, Iris x germanica, Iris tectorum, Lavandula, Stachys, Veronica spicata etc.
Pictures copyright : Mark Wessel
