Annual Flowering Flax
Linum grandiflorum. LINACEAE.
Planting and Growing Flowering Flax
You’ll find everything you need to know to plant and grow flowering flax in the accompanying table’s tabs:
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- Flowers, foliage, and root structure of flowering flax
- Plant hardiness and growing conditions for flowering flax
- Season of bloom and planting time for flowering flax
- When, how deep, and where to plant flowering flax
- How to plant flowering flax
- Watering, fertilizing, care, and pests or diseases of flowering flax
- Landscape and container uses of flowering flax
- Comments about flowering flax and its features
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Growing Flowering Flax
Many cultivars of upright, branching, narrow annual herbs, 1–2 ft. (30–60 cm) tall. Alternate, smooth, gray green, lance-shaped leaves, to 1 in. (25 mm) long.
Common cultivars include Linum grandiflorum ‘Bright Eyes’, ‘Diamint White’, and ‘Rubrum’.
See also Perennial Flax, Linum perenne, a closely related species.
New Zealand Flax, Phormium species and hybrids, are two species of unrelated plants of the Agave family.
Planting and Care Guide
Blooms
Many solitary, pink, red, white, simple, 5-petaled flowers, to 1‑1/4-in. (32-mm) wide, in late spring–late summer. Each flowers blooms for a single day; blooms continue for 4–6 weeks.
Best Climates
Self-seeding, zones 2–9.
Soil Type and Fertility
Damp, well-drained, sandy loam. Fertility: Rich–average. 6.5–7.5 pH.
Where and How to Plant
Early spring in full sun to open shade, 4–6 in. (10–15 cm) apart. Avoid transplanting. Plant successions to prolong bloom.
Proper Care
Easy. Keep damp; allow soil surface to dry between waterings. Drought tolerant. Fertilize quarterly. Propagate by seed.
About This Plant
Good choice for accents, beds, borders, foregrounds, massed plantings in cottage, meadow, rock, shade gardens. Pest and disease resistant.