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Learn how to grow strawflowers, with their large papery blooms, and enjoy these long lasting flowers in both their fresh and dried states.
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Strawflowers are flowering plants with beautiful blooms, often grown for drying due to their longevity as everlasting flowers.
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What many think are the papery petals on the strawflower flower, are actually colorful modified bracts.
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Strawflower bracts come in shades of white, pink, purple, yellow, and orange. There are even bicolored strawflower varieties as well.
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Common names for this papery flower include golden everlasting, strawflower, and paper daisy.
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Although a hardy annual in many climates, in zones 8 to 11, the plants may grow as short-lived herbaceous perennials.
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Strawflowers can be harvested and used as cut flowers, for both fresh and dried floral arrangements.
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Starting strawflower seeds indoors is the recommended method of sowing, especially in cooler climates.
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Plant into cell trays, and grow indoors until spring. Provide light and moisture, until the new seedlings are ready to be hardened off, before transplanting into the garden.
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Direct sowing is also an option in warmer climates with longer growing seasons.
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Strawflowers take approximately 75 to 85 days to grow from seed to maturity, and to develop into blooming sized plants.
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See the tutorial to learn more about growing and caring for strawflowers, and the best stage to harvest!
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