Perennial Flax – Linum perenne

Full Sun Partial Sun Loved by Pollinators Perennial

With it’s bright blue summer flowers, this is an enduringly popular choice for an informal border or a wildlife friendly planting scheme.  It’s highly attractive to butterflies and the seeds provide a valuable food source for garden birds.  As well as being used in the manufacture of linen and to produce linseed oil, Perennial Flax […]

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1 x 10.5cm Potted Plant £4.25 In Stock
5% discount is automatically applied for 3 or more of the same variety and pot size/seeds

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Perennial Flax – Linum perenne is also included in our Wildflower Collection
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With it’s bright blue summer flowers, this is an enduringly popular choice for an informal border or a wildlife friendly planting scheme.  It’s highly attractive to butterflies and the seeds provide a valuable food source for garden birds.  As well as being used in the manufacture of linen and to produce linseed oil, Perennial Flax features strongly in European folklore.  Farmers in Yorkshire would sit on sacks of flax seed, facing the east, to ensure bountiful crops.  Another tradition has it that flax worn in the shoes will protect the wearer from poverty and an old German saying maintains that running naked through flax will cure dizziness.

Grows best in a fertile, well drained soil in full sun or partial shade

Latin Name:
Linum perenne
Common Name:
Perennial Flax
Height:
30cm (12"), Spread 20cm (8")
Flowers:
Blue
J F M A M J J A S O N D
  • Plant Indoors
  • Plant Outside
  • Flowers/Harvest
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***** CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR DISPATCH UPDATE *****

Plant orders placed before 6am on 16 December will be dispatched on 17/18 December.

All plant orders received after this time will be dispached the week beginging 6 January 2025

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