Statice Sunburst Apricot

Statice Sunburst Apricot brings a completely different feel to statice. The soft apricot blooms have a warm, slightly vintage look that works beautifully amongst summer flowers. And that colour is just as useful indoors. Cut them fresh for a vase or dry them to keep that little bit of summer around for much longer.

🌸 Flowering: June to the first frosts 
📏 Height: 70-90cm
🌿 Tender perennial usually treated as an annual
💧 Drought tolerant once established

Sow: between February and April, start by sowing onto moist well-drained compost. Cover lightly and keep at 18-24C. Germination usually takes 7-14 days. Transplant seedlings when large enough to handle to individual pots and grow on in cooler conditions.

Grow: harden off and plant out once danger of frost has passed. Plant 25-35 cm apart. Statice thrives in well-drained soil and is quite happy to be baked in full sun. It suits low-water gardens. It needs little aftercare, just cutting and deadheading.

Enjoy: I think this colour is the real reason to grow Sunburst Apricot. Soft enough to mingle amongst other flowers but warm enough not to disappear amongst them.

🏡 In your garden

•    Cottage and informal gardens
•    Mediterranean and drought tolerant gardens
•    Gravel gardens
•    Containers and pots
•    Flower beds and borders
•    Cutting gardens

✂️ Cut flower

•    Fresh vase life of 7 to 14 days
•    Harvest the flowers when they are fully open and hang them upside down in a dark, airy space until completely dried
•    The dried flowers have a papery quality and will retain their colour for a very long time

🐝 Pollinator friendly

•    The small flowers attract bees and butterflies
•    The long flowering period provides food into the autumn

💡 Did you know?

What looks like the everlasting part of a statice flower isn't actually the flower itself. It’s the calyx. Those colourful, papery parts are the calyces surrounding the much shorter-lived true flowers. The calyces remain after the flowers have faded and keep their colour as they dry. That's the secret behind statice being such a brilliant everlasting flower.