{"title":"Stokesia","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"stokesia-laevis-klaus-jelitto","title":"Stokesia laevis 'Klaus Jelitto'","description":"\u003cp\u003eLots of large, lilac blue cornflower-type flowers with frilled petals are carried on upright stems with spear-shaped mid green foliage. Commonly known as 'Stokes' Aster', this has become one of our most popular plants. The intensity of the flower colour is quite mesmerising and so pretty. Just keep deadheading it to promote further flowering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for the front of a cottage garden border or as edging along a path, it also looks wonderful planted in large drifts. Alternatively grow it in containers around a favourite seating area, where you can watch the butterflies flock to it. If a severe winter is threatened, mulch deeply with dry matter in autumn. It performs best in a fertile, free draining soil that retains some moisture, but is not overly wet in winter. Avoid heavy, moist soils.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeight x Spread: 45cm x 50cm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hardys Cottage Garden Plants","offers":[{"title":"3 Litre","offer_id":52922093666646,"sku":"105890","price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"1 Litre","offer_id":53626717798742,"sku":null,"price":9.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1003\/4928\/0598\/files\/Stokesialaevis_KlausJelitto_-1.jpg?v=1774720579"},{"product_id":"stokesia-laevis-melspbr","title":"Stokesia laevis 'Mel's'PBR","description":"\u003cp\u003eDive right into the large deep lavender-blue slightly shaggy flowers of this wonderful form of 'Stoke’s Aster' and you will be a lost cause. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite its size the blooms really pack a punch in a mid to late summer border held upright on stocky stems, drawing and holding your gaze.  There are very few flowers that match it for colour and intense hue in the garden, so plant it in pride of place at the front of a border or in a prominent sunny container where you can admire it.  Evergreen through mild winters, it will bulk up slowly preferring an average to moist soil with some drainage in a south or west facing site.  Bees cannot get enough of it too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeight x Spread: 30cm x 30cm \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hardys Cottage Garden Plants","offers":[{"title":"3 Litre","offer_id":53029433639254,"sku":null,"price":13.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"1 Litre","offer_id":53648360374614,"sku":null,"price":9.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1003\/4928\/0598\/files\/Stokesialaevis_Mel_s_PBR.jpg?v=1775289121"}],"url":"https:\/\/hardysplants.co.uk\/collections\/stokesia.oembed","provider":"Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants","version":"1.0","type":"link"}