Full Sun
Thin out seedlings to about 15-23cm (6 – 9 inches) apart.
The seed should be sown outdoors where they are to flower in April to early June. They prefer any ordinary, well-drained garden soil, in full sun. Sow seeds 6mm (1/4 inches) deep and 30cm (12 inches) apart. Germinations takes place around 14-21 days (sow seeds into good quality general purpose compost for pot or container-grown plants). Thin out seedlings to about 15-23cm (6 – 9 inches) apart.
Ensure that temperatures are mild and all chance of frost has passed before planting out, as Cornflower is a hardy plant.These estimates for how long Cornflower takes to sprout, grow and harvest are from real observations from real gardeners, right around the world.
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cornflower, common herb (Centaurea cyanus) of the family Asteraceae (aster aster [Gr.,=star], common name for the Asteraceae (Compositae), the aster family, in North America, name for plants of the genus Aster, sometimes called wild asters, and for a related plant more correctly called China aster (Callistephus chinensis
….. Click the link for more information. family). It is a garden flower in the United States but a weed in the grainfields of Europe. It is called bluebottle or bluet in England and bluebonnet in Scotland; in North America the cornflower shares with other plants the names ragged robin, bachelor’s button, or ragged sailor. The long-stemmed blue heads of the flowers, having radiating bottle- or vase-shaped florets, yield a juice which, mixed with alum, has been used as a dye. Cornflowers are classified in the division Magnoliophyta Magnoliophyta (măg’nōlēŏf`ətə)
….. Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Asterales, family Asteraceae.
Cornflower blue in human culture
Computer Game Design
Cornflower blue is also the default clear-screen background color in Microsoft XNA, possibly a reference to the movie Fight Club.
Film
Fight Club, based on Palahniuk’s book of the same name, contains a scene where the narrator’s boss asks if a computer icon can be remade in cornflower blue. The narrator also implies that his boss always wears a cornflower blue tie on Tuesdays.
In A Scanner Darkly, the cornflower and the color associated with it are associated with the fictional drug “Substance D” and from there the perpetual “war on drugs” and the U.S. government’s hopeless entanglement/involvement with it.
Literature
The novelist Chuck Palahniuk has claimed that the color cornflower blue appears at least once in each of his books. Phillip K. Dick ’s story A Scanner Darkly mentions the cornflower very visibly in the last scene.
Bachelor button or cornflower
Asteraceae
Misspellings: Cornflour;