Summer Savory

Add elegant color and old-fashioned charm to shady garden beds with McKana’s Giant Mix Columbine , a standout perennial grown for its large, long-spurred flowers and graceful, upright habit. Blooming from mid-spring to early summer, this award-winning columbine produces 8 cm (3-inch) nodding blooms in a beautiful mix of white, cream, yellow, and red, held high above delicate, airy foliage. suited to woodland gardens, shade plantings, and cut flower arrangements, McKana’s Giant Mix brings texture, movement, and vivid seasonal color to the garden.

Variety Details

• Crop category: Vegetable
• Product format: Seed packet
• Product type: Vegetable Seeds
• Selection format: Named seed variety
• Catalog category: Vegetable Seeds

Sowing & Growing

• Packet directions: Use packet-specific measurements when exact sowing figures are absent from the current record
• Local timing: Adjust sowing to local soil temperature, frost dates, and seasonal conditions
• Establishment: Keep the seed zone from drying during emergence without leaving it saturated

Use the product-specific sowing figures for Summer Savory as the starting point, then adjust timing to local soil temperature and frost conditions. Prepare the bed before planting, preserve the recorded spacing, and evaluate moisture at root depth instead of following a universal calendar. Watch development as the stated maturity window approaches and harvest at the size, texture, or color preferred for the crop. Label the row with the sowing date so actual performance can inform future plantings.

Plants grow up to 75 cm (30 inches) tall and thrive in full to part shade.

To manage self-sowing, deadhead seed pods before they open.

Or let the pods dry on the plant and collect the seeds to replant elsewhere in the garden or share with friends.

Award-winning All-America Selections variety Large, intricate 3-inch blooms Beautiful mix of white, cream, yellow, and red flowers Excellent for woodland gardens and shady borders Tall stems make it a lovely cut flower Perennial for returning beauty year after year

Before sowing Summer Savory, review the packet alongside the current product details and note any range in temperature, germination, or maturity. Ranges reflect biological and seasonal variation rather than a fixed promise. Label each planting with its date and location, then compare emergence, growth, and harvest with local weather. This record is useful for succession plantings and for deciding whether the crop fits better into an earlier or later seasonal window.

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