Knautia macedonica 'Red Knight'
Macedonian scabious
Also known as Knautia 'Red Knight'
- Height × spread
- 1.2m × 0.5m
- Position
- Full sun
- Hardiness
- Colder than -20C (RHS H7)
- Flowers
- Summer, Autumn
Availability
Generally available in Spring & Summer
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About this plant
A showy little number that has cherry red scabious-like flowers. The flowers are held on long stems above a mound of lance-shaped foliage. The flowers are small but lively with a neat head having pink, cream tipped stamens. The flowers are semi-double and flower all summer going into autumn. They are good for cutting.
- Flower colour
- Red
- Foliage colour
- Grey
- Autumn foliage
- Yellow
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- No
- Shape
- Column
- Height
- 1.2m
- Spread
- 0.5m
- Season of interest
- Summer, Autumn
- Flowers in
- Summer, Autumn
- Evergreen
- Deciduous
- Garden style
- Small scale garden, Prairie garden, Gravel garden
- Sun or shade
- Likes full sun, tolerates part shade
- Soil type
- Chalk, Loam (normal)
- Soil pH
- Alkaline, Neutral
- Drainage
- Well drained soil
- Hardiness
- Colder than -20C (RHS H7)
- Borders & containers
- Borders
- Use for
- Butterfly attraction
- Hazards
- No
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