K - Knautia

 

 Knautia, Macedonica "Red Knight"

It might looks like a pincusion flower (scabiosa), but it's not!  It is a relative though. Knautia is a nice bee friendly perennial I have growing in one corner of a vegetable bed. I grew the three plants from seed and they have self-seeded to grow more just outside the bed, as well as some in the Toss Garden where I tossed the seed heads.  I read nothing about their blooming their second year, but that's they way mine were.



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  1. Never heard of this. learned something new!

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    1. I'm not sure where I heard of it, but I'm glad I did and it grew from seed for me. Now it self seeds.

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    1. They really are, and hard to photograph the color.

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  3. They are really pretty and I love the color too!

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    1. They will bloom into winter. They try to bloom all winter, but end up looking pretty poorly. Maybe somewhere just a little warmer.

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  4. Another flower I've never grown. Bee friendly flowers are getting more and more important in our climate emergency.

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    1. And I like easy to grow and hardy perennials, which many of the pollinator plants are!

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  5. It's rather interesting looking.

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    1. Yes, the flowers are different from any others I have. If one has pincushion flowers (scabosa) I guess they look familiar.

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  6. That bee looks happy with the Knautia. Love the bright color too. Weekends In Maine

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    1. It was! Soon it will be covered with flowers and bees.

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  7. Wow! the bee shot is marvellous! and the vivid magenta is lovely.

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    1. Thank you. I like to get close-ups of the bees.

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  8. Beautiful flowers! Also, toss garden :D I didn't know that was a thing

    The Multicolored Diary

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    1. A couple of years ago I just started throwing all my deadheading over into a bare area. Then I piled the black-eyed Susans I'd pulled out, and left them all winter. After I cleaned it up the next spring things grew! I end up throwing extra seeds or seeds I'm sick of planting, over there. So, it's my Toss Garden!

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