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Matthiola selections
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Stock

Stock offers a wonderfully spicy, distinctive scent. Plant it in spring several weeks before your region's last frost date -- this annual thrives in cool temperatures and stops blooming once hot weather arrives. It's especially wonderful in windowboxes and planters at nose level where it's sometimes subtle effect can best be appreciated.

It is slightly spirelike and comes in a wide range of colors. Stock makes a great cut flower, perfuming bouquets as well as the border. It grows best in full sun or part shade and moist, well-drained soil.

Light:
Sun, Part Sun
Plant Type:
Annual
Plant Height:
1-3 feet tall
Plant Width:
1-2 feet wide
Landscape Uses:
Containers, Beds & Borders
Special Features:
Flowers, Fragrant, Cut Flowers, Easy to Grow

Top Varieties


(Matthiola 'Legacy Series') bears double flowers in a range of bright shades on plants that grow 2 feet tall.
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(Matthiola 'Cinderella Series') bears double flowers in a range of shades on compact, 10-inch-tall plants.
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Plant It With


Nemesia

Create a fragrant container by mixing sweetly scented nemesia with spicy-scented stock.

Pansy

Accent stock's upright habit with colorful pansies. Both do best early in the season and tolerate light frosts.

Sweet pea

Grow sweet peas on a trellis with stock for a knock-your-socks-off display your eyes -- and nose -- will appreciate.

Propagation


Seed

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