Does love-in-a-mist like sun or shade?
Love-in-a-mist prefers a well-draining soil with a neutral pH, and full sun to partial shade. It needs at least 6 hours of direct sunlight per day, and regular watering to keep the soil moist. Love-in-a-mist is very easy to grow. The plants do best in full sun in well drained, fertile soil.Love-in a mist needs a sunny site and is best grown in borders, but it can be grown in large pots if sown in situ. Sow in patches to fill bare spaces between long-lived shrubs and perennials or grow with other hardy annuals for a colourful summer display.Seed can be started indoors, but this plant doesn’t transplant well so it’s best to direct sow into the garden. The blooms of love in a mist trive in cool weather and decline a bit in the hot summer months. The flowers and seed heads are definitely the best qualities of this plant.
Does love-in-a-mist attract bees?
As their name suggests, Love in a Mist seeds produce stunning blooms surrounded by a mist of delicate foliage, creating a romantic and whimsical effect. Their flowers come in shades of blue, pink, white, and purple, and attract bees and other pollinators to your garden. That being said, love-in-a-mist are prolific self-seeders that produce lots of seeds to regrow the following year. To prevent love-in-mist from self-seeding and spreading uncontrollably, cut back the plants before the seeds ripen late in the summer.Love-in-a-mist could be used for edging, as a mass planting or in combination with silver-leaved plants such as dusty miller or lamb’s ear. You could even create an everlasting garden by planting them with strawflowers, bachelor buttons, bells of Ireland, globe amaranth or other flowers for drying.