{"product_id":"bishy-barnabees-cottage-garden-scabiosa-drumstick","title":"Scabiosa 'Drumstick'","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrown for the seed heads, not the flowers. The pale blue pincushions are pleasant and brief and beside the point. What follows is a perfect papery sphere built from cone-shaped bracts tessellated across its surface like a small geodesic dome, on wiry stems at 60 to 90cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey open pale green, ripen through golden-bronze with dark veining, and finish warm parchment. Dried, they hold their shape and colour for years, and there is nothing else in the catalogue with that geometry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHarvest timing is the whole thing, and the window is only two or three weeks. Cut when the globes are light green to golden-bronze with dark edges.\u003c\/strong\u003e Leave them past full ripeness and they split, scatter and collapse, and the dried value is gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stems are slender and will flop in a summer storm, so get twiggy pea sticks in when the plants are 20 or 30cm rather than after the event. It wants full sun and lean, well-drained, neutral to alkaline soil, and it does poorly on heavy wet clay.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54828182077773,"sku":"SCB-STL","price":2.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/6961\/6973\/files\/scabiosa-drumstick-1.jpg?v=1790284663","url":"https:\/\/thefoalyard.co.uk\/products\/bishy-barnabees-cottage-garden-scabiosa-drumstick","provider":"The Foalyard","version":"1.0","type":"link"}