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Stock flowers can have either single or double blooms that grow in clusters on spiky stems. Stock has a subtle, clove-like scent and attracts pollinators like bees and butterflies. Stock flowers' blooms come in a wide range of colors, including pink, apricot, yellow, purple, blue, red, and white.
Stock, Matthiola incana, is a member of the Brassicaceae family of plants that includes cabbages. Originating in Europe, it is easily cultivated in all temperate zones, and is especially prized by cottage gardeners for its terminal clusters of fragrant, showy blossoms.
Stock (also called Matthiola incana, Gillyflower, perfume plant) is one of the most fragrant flowers you can grow. Its scent is described as both sweet and spicy, not to mention incredibly pleasant.
Stock flowers bloom from spring to summer, offering continuous blooms in the sunny garden when given the right stock plant care. Caring for stock plants includes growing them in well-draining soil. Keep the soil moist and deadhead spent blooms .
Stock plants are slightly spirelike, and their blooms come in a wide range of colors. They also make great cut flowers and are favored by florists for their long-lasting flowers and intoxicating perfume.
A beautiful, fragrant plant, stocks deserve pride of place in any garden for their splashes of color and captivating scent. These great plants are easy to grow from seed and are always abuzz with pollinators.
Also commonly referred to as Gillyflower or Virginia Stock, this beautiful plant is native to the Mediterranean region but is now cultivated and adored by gardeners all around the world. The Stock Flower is an annual or biennial plant that typically grows up to 1-2 feet tall.
Stock plant likes to grow in sunny areas of the garden that have good drainage, and a slightly alkaline and moist soil. You can start to grow Stock indoors first. The annual and perennial varieties of Matthiola should be started about 7 or 8 weeks before the last frost of spring.
Stock flowers come in many beautiful colors and give off an intense fragrance. These plants are a cottage garden favorite, with long stalks of ruffled blossoms. These flowers are ideal for bouquets, plus they’re edible.
Stock flower (Matthiola incana), also known as gillyflower or hoary stock, is a hardy plant which brings splashes of colour and a sweet and spicy fragrance to a garden. With clusters of blooms forming a frilly spire of petals and narrow green-grey leaves, it also makes a long-lasting cut flower.