Honeywort (Cerinthe Major Purpurascens)
Do you want to attract hummingbirds to your garden? Start these honeywort seeds! Cerinthe major purpurascens is a hummingbird magnet, and it also attracts other birds and bees. Honeywort plant is fast-growing and rewarding to grow from seeds. It features nodding clusters of rich, blue-purple, tube-like flowers on arching stems.
Honeywort's foliage is unique and just as attractive with mottled bluish mauve leaves that spiral up the many branching stems. It is known to easily self-sow its seeds for the following year's marvelous blue flowers. These plants are continuous bloomers: they begin in the spring and persist into autumn. Honeywort is also known as blue wax flower: it is so named due to the waxy appearance of the leaves that grow closest around each blossom.