Growing "Bachelor Buttons"

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

One of my favorite flowers, bachelor buttons are sometimes called cornflowers. And it’s from there that the color “cornflower blue” derives its name! Also called basket flowers, blue bonnets, blue cap and many other names, this popular plant is a hardy annual. It blooms from spring through the fall months in an array of color. Leave some of the spent flowers on the plant, and it’ll happily reseed its bed and grow again next year. But what are bachelor’s buttons, and are they all blue? Do they prefer sunlight or shade? How much water do they need? We’ll cover all this and more today as we explore the world of the bachelor’s button! Learn More: Bachelor Buttons: Cornflowers And Blue Caps To Brighten Your Beds Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up everyone? Welcome back to the podcast. How you doing? Today we're talking
0:06.4	about Bachelor Buttons, also known as Corn Flowers, also known as Blue Caps.
0:12.0	They are a pretty cool flower. I've been getting more into flowers. known as blue bonnets blue caps it is a hardy annual blooms from spring through the fall
0:26.1	months in a nice beautiful array of color so how do we grow these guys we're just
0:31.4	going to go through a quick little growing guide.
0:33.2	Hopefully you guys are enjoying some of these more ornamental approaches. I think that, you know,
0:38.2	it's at the very least consider it a pollinator, right? Consider it something to attract some beneficials into your garden if you're not a real
0:45.8	ornamental fan. This is the way I've been trying to, I guess, trick myself into growing more
0:50.2	or more ornamentsals is I can justify it quote unquote by saying oh you know what
0:54.6	it's going to bring some more beneficials into the garden because
0:58.0	aesthetics has never been my strong suit in the garden very very practically
1:01.8	minded and I'm trying, trying, trying to fix some of that.
1:06.4	So Bachelor Buttons.
1:08.9	How do we care for them?
1:10.4	And first of all, what are they?
1:11.9	Botanically, it's called the Centauria Sayanis and the name Bachelor Button comes from old
1:18.9	folklore so young love-struck men would wear them on their lapel.
1:24.1	And if the flower faded very fast,
1:26.7	it was thought that the object of their desire
1:29.1	didn't love them, kind of like a forget me not,
1:32.2	or a does she love me, love me not, whatever that plant is where
1:35.7	you pick the petals off and you say loves me, loves me not.
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