🤍🌿 Covent Garden Summer Gypsophila – White – 200 Seeds – Gypsophila elegans

Create a dreamy, delicate garden display with Covent Garden Summer Gypsophila – White (Gypsophila elegans) 🌿🤍. Commonly known as Baby’s Breath, this elegant annual is beloved for its cloud-like clusters of tiny white blooms, making it a favorite for cottage gardens, floral borders, and fresh or dried floral arrangements.

With light, airy texture and long flowering season, Gypsophila adds softness and charm to any flower bed and is perfect as a filler flower in bouquets.

Key Information:

• Latin Name: Gypsophila elegans

• Common Name: Baby’s Breath, Covent Garden Gypsophila

• Seed Count: 200 seeds

• Plant Type: Annual flowering plant

• Plant Height: 18–24 inches (45–60 cm)

• Spread: 10–12 inches (25–30 cm)

• Hardiness Zones: Grown as annual in all zones

• Sun Requirements: Full sun

• Soil Type: Well-drained, alkaline to neutral soil; prefers sandy or loamy soil (pH 7.0–7.5)

• Sowing Time:

  • Outdoors: Sow directly after last frost in spring

  • Indoors: Start 4–6 weeks before last frost for early blooms

• Germination Time: 8–15 days

• Bloom Time: Early summer through fall

• Watering Needs: Low to moderate; avoid overwatering

• Spacing: 8–10 inches apart

• Fertilization: Light feeding; avoid rich soil to prevent floppy growth

Usage:

• Ornamental: Ideal for garden borders, wildflower-style beds, rock gardens, and mass plantings

• Floral Arrangements: Highly popular as a cut flower and bouquet filler, both fresh and dried

• Dried Flowers: Retains shape and color beautifully when dried

• Pollinator Friendly: Attracts bees and other beneficial insects

• Companion Plants: Complements bold blooms like roses, zinnias, cosmos, and snapdragons

• Cottage Gardens: A must-have for soft, romantic floral aesthetics

Tips for Success:

• Thin seedlings to avoid overcrowding

• Stake taller plants if growing in windy areas

• Deadhead spent flowers to extend blooming period

• Does best in less fertile, well-drained soil