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Plant Selector Guide
Matthiola incana (Queen Stock, Gillyflower, Brampton Stock)

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Plant Type: Biennial
Uses: Fragrance, Border, Greenhouse, Edging, Container, Cutting Bed
Propagation: Seeds
Habit: Upright, clump
Light: Full Sun
Flower Color: Various
Blooms: Summer, Autumn
Width: .75 - 1 ft.
Height: 1.5 - 2.5 ft.
Fertility: Rich
Soil: Neutral, Well-Drained
Zone: 1 - 11

Hardy Biennial. An old-fashioned garden favorite grown for its strong, spicy fragrance. Profuse flower clusters are borne on tall spikes through the summer and into the fall or winter, depending on the variety you choose and when you plant. May be single or double flowers with a wonderful sweet scent. An excellent cut flower. Bloom colors are rose, white, ivory, lilac, magenta, peach, blue and even yellow. This is a perennial plant grown as a biennial. Seeds can be sown in the late spring for blooms about 15 months later. These plants like cool, misty weather. There is an annual variety named M. annua which will bloom much quicker and has fragrant, double flowers. M. longipetala bicornis (Night-scented stock) is an annual that bears single pale violet flowers that emit a pervasive sweet scent each night. Stems and flowers may wilt druing the day, but will revive at night.