Mirabilis jalapa bio De Bolster (5680)

At night it is a strongly branched plant with trumpet shaped flowers. What is special about the nocturnal beauty is that this plant feeds the moths. The deep calyx of the flower ensures that insects cannot reach the nectar without a long roltong. So the nectar is really only food for insects with a long tongue, like the moth. There are fewer and fewer flowers of this kind, threatening the moth with extinction (source). So this is the right time to sow them in your garden. At the end of the afternoon these beautiful flowers will open, and the lovely scent will always welcome you when you come home after a long working day.

Clean at night is sensitive to frost and therefore it is best to first sow indoors and then plant in the garden after mid-May, when the risk of night frost is very low. Or sow at night in the open ground from the beginning of May.

Cultivation in the garden
pre-sowing: arpil                                                
Transplant: May                                      
right hand sowing: May                                              
flowering period: July-October          


Other specifications
Contents small package: 3 grams (for min. 3 m2)
Number of seeds per gram : 8 seeds
Plant spacing : 35x35 cm
Plant height : 50-70 cm
Pitch : sun/semi-shade
Flowering time : July-October