Love-in-the-Mist (Nigella damascena), packet of 50 seeds, organic

Family: Crowfoot (Ranunculaceae)

Annual, self-seeding, 90 days to flowers.

Native to the Mediterranean.  This is a cultivar selected here at Strictly Medicinal Seeds, with frilly foliage and bright purple flowers giving way to decorative pods.  Seeds are edible and impart a nutmeg flavor and jet black to decoration cakes, candy, and cookies.  Plant prefers full sun to part shade and fast draining garden soil, rocky, gravelly or poor soils.  Direct seed in garden bed in fall to early spring.  Easy and dependable, always enjoyable, no need to thin, they cooperate nicely in a garden bed.

50 seeds per packet, Certified Organically Grown