{"product_id":"bishy-barnabees-cottage-garden-scabious-black-knight","title":"Scabious Black Knight","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs close to black as a flower gets. Dome-shaped pincushions in a maroon-purple velvet dark enough that in dappled light, or indoors, they simply read as black, speckled with tiny white stamens like pins in a cushion. On wiry stems at 90cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a honey scent on a warm day, and butterflies and bees come to it in numbers, which is not what people expect from a flower grown for its moodiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat dark flowers do in an arrangement is ground everything else. A summer bouquet of pinks, whites and warm oranges competes with itself; put three stems of this through it and the other colours settle down and read clearly. It is a true cut-and-come-again, so the more you take the more it makes, and deadheading is what keeps it going to the November frosts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo practical points. \u003cstrong\u003eGet support in early, at 20 or 30cm, because 90cm stems go over in a summer storm and staking afterwards is too late.\u003c\/strong\u003e And it wants full sun and neutral to alkaline ground with sharp drainage; on clay add grit, or the roots rot in winter wet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54828183290189,"sku":"SCA-BLK","price":2.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/6961\/6973\/files\/20488008967a20ee37dd696_upscale.jpg?v=1790284674","url":"https:\/\/thefoalyard.co.uk\/products\/bishy-barnabees-cottage-garden-scabious-black-knight","provider":"The Foalyard","version":"1.0","type":"link"}