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Pheasant’s eye -adonis annua– is an annual meadow plant that grew in cornfields in the past. Sadly, it has been affected by modern herbicides and is now scarce in the wild. Fortunately it can still be introduced into gardens and conservation headlands and looks best when grown with other cornfield plants. Pheasant’s eye should always be sown in light dry soils and needs plenty of sun. Plants produce scarlet flowers with black centres that appear in June and July. Pheasant’s eye looks best growing with other cornfield annuals such as Corn Chamomile, Corn Cockle, Corn Marigold, Wild Pansies, Coren Buttertcups, Cornflowers and Poppies.

How to grow Pheasant’s eye Seeds
Pheasant’s eye seeds are best sown in the autumn, directly outside, where they are to flower. Always sow onto carefully prepared bare soil and cover lightly with soil. .

To buy Pheasant’s eye seeds
To purchase Pheasant’s eye seeds, please select a quantity above and click add to cart. To ensure the best chance of success, we sell all of our wildflower seeds by weight, which ensures each wildflower seed packet contains a good quantity of seeds. The recommended sowing rate is 1 gram per square metre, and the number of Pheasant’s eye seeds per gram is approx. 100. All of our Wildflower seed packets contain seeds of Native British provenance.


Summary
type - annual,
colour - Red,
height - 25 to 50cms,
flowering months - June, July,
habitat -chalk and limestone grassland, Bare, Open Ground (eg Arable field margins, disturbed, waste ground)
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