Easter Bonnet Tender Nemesia Plants

Nemesia 'Easter Bonnet' French Connection. 2-Litre Potted Plants

Hats off to this pretty little deciduous perennial with well-scented flowers of pastel lavender purple on top, a cheery little yellow centre, and very pale yellow bottom half.

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Features:

• Pale lavender purple & yellow flowers with a good scent
• Long flowering period, May/early June to September
• Deciduous perennial
• Frost tender
• Pot grown delivery: Year round
• Compact, upright habit
• French Connection Series
• To 30 x 30 cm
• Wildlife friendly

Growing 'Easter Bonnet' Nemesias

Nemesias need full sun and well-drained soil. 'Easter Bonnet' should be fine outside in warm frost-free locations, especially in the microclimate next to a house or sunny wall. In colder areas, it should be brought into shelter overwinter.

Drought-tolerant when well established, it will nonetheless flower for longer if watered regularly in dry weather; don't overdo it though, as they are prone to root rot.

When your plants get growing, pinch off the growing tip of the new shoots to make them bush out nicely, and deadhead regularly to encourage more flowers, which should see you through the summer. If you need to tidy them in future years, trim them lightly in March or April.

In Your Garden Design

Resembling a tiny pansy, there is enough colour in the multitude of flowers for this lovely little plant to hold its own in a pot or hanging basket by itself. But why not plant with good companion plants such as geraniums, verbena, dahlias or soft tufty Stipa tenuissima to really create a really eye-catching display. They would also work at the base of the lovely Candy Stripe cosmos and make great bedding plants around salvias of matching or complementary colours such as Joy. Make sure it is somewhere you can enjoy its strong fragrance.

Did You Know?

Introduced in 1998 by Martine Tellwright, one of the world's top breeders, based on the south coast at Fleurie Nursery, as part of her French Connection collection.