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🤍 Cupid’s Dart ‘White’
🤍 Botanical Name: Catananche caerulea (White form)
🤍 Type: Hardy Perennial

Cupid’s Dart ‘White’ is a graceful and elegant perennial that produces delicate, papery, daisy-like white flowers with subtle silvery tones and a soft lavender centre. Blooming on tall, wiry stems above neat clumps of grey-green foliage, it’s perfect for borders, wildflower-style plantings, and cutting gardens. Long-lasting both in the garden and as a dried flower, this charming variety is drought-tolerant and loved by pollinators.

Plant Details

Type: Hardy Perennial
Height: 60 – 70 cm
Spread: 30 – 40 cm
Flowers: June – September
Position: Full sun; well-drained, light soil (tolerates poor soils)

Growing Information

Sow Indoors: Feb – Apr or Sep – Oct, on the surface of moist compost (light aids germination)
Sow Outdoors: Apr – Jun, direct into final position or nursery bed
Germination: 14 – 21 days at 15 – 20°C
Transplant: Harden off and plant out after last frost or in autumn
Spacing: 30 – 40 cm apart
Care: Water during dry periods. Deadhead to prolong flowering or leave seed heads for winter interest.

Why You’ll Love It

Elegant white, papery blooms with soft lavender centres 🤍
Long-lasting flowers – fresh or dried
Great for cutting, borders & wildflower gardens
Drought-tolerant & low-maintenance
Loved by bees & butterflies 🦋

Top Tip

Harvest blooms for drying just before they are fully open and hang upside down in a warm, dark place to preserve their delicate beauty.

Perfect For

Cottage & wildlife gardens
Cut flower & dried flower arrangements
Gravel & drought-tolerant gardens
Naturalistic borders & meadows
Easy-care perennial planting

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