Nemesias

The Best Nemesia Varieties

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Nemesias are sun loving, bushy little bedding plants whose colourful, scented flowers are on display for five or six months of the year. Historically, these mostly tender perennials have often been treated as annuals in the border, but with hardier varieties being introduced and the increased practice of covering plants with fleece in mid-winter, that is changing!

Grown in containers, they can be moved into shelter and be ready to flower early the following season. Treat them like alpine flowers while in bloom: they love a good watering in the growing season, but they also demand sharp drainage: standing in water will give them root rot.

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Nemesia

Nemesia Lore

The genus name Nemesia, which also belongs to a trapdoor spider, may or may not have been bestowed by the Greek goddess Nemesis; she who delivers the harvest of consequences earned by the "frivolous insolences of mortals". If it were not for Nemesis punishing Narcissus we would not even know his name, but there will be no conflict here: daffodils finish blooming by the time nemesia starts to flower.

Nemesia denticulata originates from South Africa, where they are known as toothed aloha, and are part of the Scrophulariaceae family of figwort, related to snapdragons and foxgloves.