Salmon Queen Clarkia is a compact, cottage garden flower that brings soft peachy-salmon blooms from spring through summer across zones 6 through 10. This cultivar of Clarkia elegans grows just 12 to 18 inches tall, making it perfect for borders, containers, or tucked into tight garden spaces where you want color without height. Gardeners appreciate it for drawing pollinators while requiring only moderate water and full sun. Blooming 70 to 84 days from seed to flower, you can have blooms on the calendar almost before you know it.
Full Sun
Moderate
6-10
18in H x 12in W
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Salmon Queen produces a full season of blooms in a warm, muted salmon tone that feels both delicate and substantial. Its compact stature and light water needs make it shine in drier gardens or areas where space is precious. The flowers are irresistible to pollinators, turning your garden into a living ecosystem even in a modest footprint.
Salmon Queen Clarkia works beautifully as a cut flower, bringing that soft salmon hue into arrangements and bringing the bees that pollinate it into the garden as a living accent.
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Sow indoors 6 to 8 weeks before your last spring frost in pots, keeping soil at 55 to 70°F. Cover seed lightly with vermiculite. Expect sprouts in 5 to 21 days. These seedlings are tender and do not transplant well, so thin and move them with extra care.
Transplant seedlings out after the last frost date has passed. Handle gently, as these plants resent root disturbance.
Direct sowing is recommended. Sow in early spring 3 to 4 weeks before your last frost date, or in fall if you garden in zones 8 to 10 with mild winters.
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