Bachelor's Button Seeds

Centaurea cyanus

Bachelor buttons or often called Cornflowers now offer many uses in the landscape, attractive flowers, all in shades of red, white and pink are available in addition to the traditional blue color of bachelor button flowers. Combine red, white and blue varieties for a patriotic display on the fourth of July. Frilly, showy flowers grow on multi-branching stems, which may reach 2 to 3 feet. Bachelor button flowers  reseed them selves annualy and their blooms may be single or double. Once planted, you will be growing bachelor buttons year after year as the reseed freely. Growing bachelor buttons are fairly easy and are as simple as broadcasting them with a whiry-bird spreader or planting seeds outdoors in the spring. after all chances of frost are gone. Seeds may be started earlier inside and moved to the garden when frost danger has passed. Care of bachelor buttons plants requires watering to get them started and little else for continued bachelor buttons care.