CLEOME Queen Rose

Species: Cleome
Latin name: Cleome Spinosa - Cleome Pungens - Cleome Hassleriana
Other usual name: Fleur Araignée - Plante Araignée - en. Spider Flower
Variety: Pungens Queen Rose
Family: Capparidaceae
Origin: South America, Africa

Cleome: It is a very decorative annual plant known as spider flower, with large graceful and elegant spidery like blooms of pink color. Excellent plant for your solid masses, or planted in groups, can also be used as cut flower. It is a flower easy to cultivate, its principal needs are heat, light, sun, and a well drained soil. Water regulary but don't overwater.

Seed sowing: In April
Flowering of Cleomes: July to October
Height: Cleomes reach on average 120 cm
Exposure: Sunny

Sowing instructions: Seed sowing in spring in vented containers cover with a fine layer of compost, put clear plastic over container to maintain a hot temperature, use best a heated greenhouse. Transplant out of container, to open ground as soon as seedlings are easy to handle, this will obtain a flowering all summer until end of autumn. Soak seeds 24 hours in water to a obtain better germination, the lifting can take up to 2 weeks.

Sowing distance: -
Minimum seed sowing temperature: 20 °C

Net weight of seeds: 0.5 gr +/- 200 seeds

All our seeds are sold with their sowing instructions.