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Corn Cockle

Agrostemma githago

• Position: full sun
• Soil: well-drained, preferably poor soil
• Rate of growth: average
• Flowering period: June to August
• Flower colour: magenta-purple
• Other features: lance-shaped, grey-green leaves
• Hardiness: fully hardy
  
  A beautiful, magenta-purple annual wildflower, once a common sight in cornfields. This summer-flowering corn cockle is perfect for naturalising in a sunny wildflower or cottage garden. Performing best in poor, well-drained soil, the flowers are highly attractive to bees.
  
  
• Garden care: When sowing seeds do not use a fertiliser since wildflowers prefer poor soils. Deadhead regularly to prolong flowering. In autumn cut the faded flowerheads down to the ground and compost the dead stems.
  
  
• Goes well with: Knautia arvensis, Cardamine pratensis, Lonicera pericymenum, Briza media, Papaver rhoeas, Leucanthemum vulgare