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Lemon Fluff
Lemon Fluff
Q. I have a few lemon fluff plants in
my garden and I'm not sure if I need to
deadhead and if I do where?
A. This is a very beautiful flowering plant. You need to remove any flower stalk which starts to turn bad. Do not allow to go to seed as that will slow the plant down and probably end the flowering of that particular plant. If you keep them trimmed off or deadheaded
they will keep blooming since they want to produce seeds and set forth their own genes onto a new generation. Armenian Basket Flower Lemon Fluff Knapweed
particularly Bighead Knapweed Centaurea Macrocephala Goldfinches love it! Seed heads are great for dried arrangements. Big plant with coarse leaves. Full sun. Height 3 - 4 feet. Perennial. Large golden
ball-like blossoms and golden papery seed head. A very hardy and unique variety that self seeds but is not invasive. It's like a straw flower gone awry!!! Drought resistant. Good as a dried flower.
Recommended site: sun. Soil: fertile mildly
alkaline good loamy well-drained moist to
dry-ish. Naturally occurring in subalpine
meadows. Acidity doesn't seem to be much
of an issue. Drought tolerant. Survive all
sorts of neglect! Mature clumps will have
more or fewer stems from year to year depending
on the winter weather. Open sparse foliage
coarse. Golden/yellow in fall. Large flowers
are borne in a head for a few weeks in summer.
Flower color: golden yellow. Thistle-like
structure. Brassy-colored papery bracts
showy in bud flower and seed. Some uses:
Borders and Beds Specimens Cut Flowers Dried
Flowers. Good bold background highlight
for mixed border as single plants.
Make a sharp clean straight cut right below
the last of the flowers. If you can go lower
without taking any good healthy leaves off
then do so but do not remove any good foliage
which would produce more food for the plant.
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