Red Campion

November 08, 2024 Post a Comment

Red campion

Red campion typically germinates easily from seed sown either in the spring or early fall. Direct sow them in the garden about 1/4 inch deep and 6 to 20 inches apart.

What is the difference between Ragged Robin and Red Campion?

Unlike Red Campion, Ragged-Robin is bisexual with both stamens and styles within the same flower. It is glabrous (without hairs) to sparsely hairy and grows in damp grassy fields, marshes, fens and wet meadows.

How tall is Red Campion?

Grows up to 2-3 ft. tall (60-90 cm) and 2 ft. across (60 cm). Pest and disease free and low maintenance, this eye-catching beauty is also drought tolerant (once established).

What does campion smell like?

Bladder Campion smells of cloves, but only at dusk - the flowers remaining open throughout day and night.

Where is the best place to plant red campion?

Red Campion is easy to grow, will self-seed well and succeeds in any position that is not hot and dry. It is perfect for naturalising in partially shady areas of a moist wildflower meadow or woodland.

What are the benefits to red campion?

Herbal Medicine Uses of Red Campion Campions (of any species) were used to treat internal bleeding, kidney disease, sores and ulcers, and stings. Healers also used it to treat warts and corns. In Spain and Italy, the plant was used for digestive disorders.

Should you cut campion back?

To ensure plentiful blooms in year two, prune back your rose campion plant to one-third of its size in late fall or early winter. Cutting the stems, which can grow four feet tall, will encourage the plant to produce more flowers the following year.

Should I deadhead red campion?

Dead-head regularly to prolong flowering. In autumn cut the faded flower-heads down to the ground and compost the dead stems.

Is red campion good for wildlife?

Value to wildlife The flowers of red campion are important for various pollinating insects, including bees, butterflies and hoverflies.

Is campion annual or perennial?

Red campion is a perennial plant, which means it can live for a number of years, growing and blooming in spring and summer, and dying back in autumn.

Do you deadhead campion?

As with many silver-foliaged plants, rose campion prefers fairly dry, well-drained conditions in full sun or partial shade but will tolerate clay and moist soil. Deadhead regularly to encourage continuous flowering or shear after the initial flowering to promote a second flush of flowers later in the season.

Is red campion Poisonous?

Silene dioica has no toxic effects reported.

What is campion good for?

Grown as much for its silver-gray foliage as for its neon-color flowers, campion provides excellent color and contrast in perennial borders and beds. Once the flowers bloom in late spring to early summer, the stems can be cut back and the foliage forms a groundcover for the remainder of the growing season.

Is red campion edible?

Edible Uses: None, the high quantities of saponins make this plant none edible. Other Uses: Like many of the family including the closely related Soapwort Saponaria officinalis the plant contains significant amounts of saponins particularly in the roots.

What eats red campion?

Bumblebees, butterflies and a number of moth species visit red campion for its nectar. The 24-spot ladybird is one of only two plant feeding species of ladybird found in the British Isles and red campion is one of its favourite food plants.

Is Red Campion annual or perennial?

Red Campion's are perennials and once established will come back year after year. They will do well if grown in a meadow as well as in semi shade. The colour of the flowers can vary considerably through from all shades of pink to nearly white.

Do rose campion come back every year?

Common Pests and Plant Diseases Is rose campion an annual or a perennial? This flower is biennial, which means the plants bloom every two years. However they also re-seed themselves readily, so you can have them in bloom every year once they're established.

Is Red Campion good for bees?

Value for wildlife Red campion is very attractive to pollinators and provides a valuable source of nectar to many types of bee hoverflies and butterflies, such as the orange tip and brimstone butterfly.

What does campion flower smell like?

Unfortunately has no special scent - if you try and smell it, the five little points that surround the middle of the flower will tickle your nose.

Why is it called Red Campion?

Greek methodology tells that the aged and merry God of the woodlands Silenus gave his name to the Red campion, Silene dioica, which blooms on campus in the wilderness and in shaded areas by the lower lake.