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Blue Flax Seeds
Linum perenne
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$6.95
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Blue Flax (Linum perenne) is easy to grow, bee friendly, and will spread over time. It can tolerate both full sun and part sun, and it is a great choice for dry areas and poor soil. Blue Flax spreads and naturalizes easily in dry soils and most sunny meadows, making it an excellent option for hillsides that you’d like to see covered in wildflowers. Though Linum perenne is native to Europe, typically found in the Alps and England, it has spread widely in North America. (Note: it is not the same species as Linum lewisii, the Blue Flax species native to the American West.) For planting information, see our guide: How To Grow Flax
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Overall rating: 4.2727275 / 5 from 33 reviews.
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Blue Flax Seeds are highly praised for their beautiful and hardy plants, with attractive foliage and power-blue blooms. The color of the product is also highly praised for being beautiful and attracting bees. Blue Flax spreads and naturalizes easily in dry soils and most sunny meadows, making it an excellent option for hillsides that you’d like to see covered in wildflowers.
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- Plant Hardiness: 32%
- Flower Color: 21%
Review topics: ["color","water","plants","flowers","seeds","garden","growing","foliage","mix","germination","blooms","bloom","blue","show","soil"].
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- "The plants, with attractive foliage and power-blue blooms, are beautiful." —
- "Beautiful delicate color especially in morning and semi-shade, attracts bees." —
- "This is a hardy native plant in my area so it grows well in sandy loam soil." —
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The easiest and prettiest
"My flax is between 2-4 yrs old now. I get hundreds of flowers a day as the plants are now mature. My yard is dry and has dappled shade all day, and honestly it’s been hard to establish much. But my flax is better and better every year. I love it."
Now one of my favorite plants!
"This is such a beautiful plant. I see there have been some issues with germination or bloom in the reviews. I've had no problem with bloom, but they are also in full sun all day, which I think they need. Germination has been decent, oddly I seem to have many more sprouts the year after I seeded (and I don't think it's from the other plants reseeding). So maybe they take a winter to be viable? Anyway, beautiful plant, even just the leaves, and a beautiful variety of color, blue, purple, white and everything in between, as you can see in the pictures. Predominantly blue, though. Very Hardy, overwinters very well. Does need to be trimmed down to the ground at the end of season to look its best the following spring."
Nothing germinated. Nothing.
"It never germinated and this was of several hundred square feet of planted soil."
Did not sprout, or grow. Still a patch of dirt
"This is my second year buying from American Meadows. I have had 100% success rate with all the various wildflower and clover seed mixes I have bought so far. I prepared the soil the same way for 1 lbs of Blue Flax seeds as I did for all the other seeds I planted last year and this year. Watered, and followed all the other instructions. All my other seeds are doing fantastic, but none of the blue flax seeds sprouted / are growing. Literally nothing happened. All the other seeds I planted are flourishing, this patch of blue flax is still a patch of dirt."
Beautiful plants
"Great for dry sunny areas"
One blossom at a time??
"I bought Blue Flax, hoping for a wildflower bonanza and more butterflies. Also because the color depicted in the ad was gorgeous. I followed all directions and planted from seed all throughout my flower garden. It took a long time, but there are hundreds of the delicate stems all marching along and seem healthy. From 5" to 7" high. But over the past month, all of those plants only put out a SINGLE flower a day. I have to run around looking for the ONE blossom. Then it's gone in hours. Is this normal? Is there something else I need to do?"
Really pretty flowers!
"Wonderful flowers"
beautifully soft, sky-baby, blue flowers
"doesn't like sandy. doesn't like over watering. doesn't like over crowding, base of the plant and soil has to breathe. seeds don't like to be buried. - i start them in the fridge, set to near freezing, for at least a week. -- see my pic - planted in a used plastic water bottle - because under and around my deck is dry because my deck blocks rain from reaching the ground & i can place insecticide on the rim of the container after it is in the ground. also note. the pot stays in the ground through the cold north jersey winter (-2 degrees). - i have ordered pounds of this seed from american meadows. had a couple of shipping errors this year. but we got it together. and, they ate the re-shipping fees. this plant is not only HARDY, it "speaks. " i am a poet. if you're lucky, yours will speak to you. p. s. -- use pennies, not insecticide - to keep the critters away. peace & love - every day"
Hardy & resilient in the Southwest
"I've been trying to cultivate a wildflower meadow in my front yard for three years now. There's been a learning curve as I am a native midwesterner relocated to the southwest (Albuquerque, NM). I finally realized that I need to amend and work with my soil in order to get ANYTHING to grow, including wildflowers. Once I began to do that, I also began to have success with wildflower growth. Blueflax is one of the wildflowers that has returned this year & it looks absolutely lovely. I would recommend this perennial for this area. It comes up in early spring and seems to tolerate dry sandy soil."
Awesome
"I have sown these seeds at different times of the year, once in late fall/early winter, once in spring, once in early summer, and they always come up at the right time and bloom beautifully. really low maintenance, and the seed goes a long way. Plant along with blanket flower for blooms all summer long."