Nigella Seeds

Nigella Seeds for Planting: Love-in-a-Mist Flowers and Pods

Few flowers look as delicate or reward you as long as love-in-a-mist. Our collection of nigella seeds is the ornamental Nigella damascena, an easy annual with starry blooms floating in a haze of feathery foliage, followed by balloon-like seed pods that look as good in a dried arrangement as the flowers do fresh. You'll find organic, heirloom, open-pollinated varieties here, so you can enjoy the blooms and let a few pods ripen to save your own nigella seed for next year.

Nigella Seed Varieties: Blue, Plum, and Mixed Colors

Nigella is the classic sky-blue love-in-a-mist, the one that looks best in a jar with a handful of other cottage-garden stems. Cramer's Plum leans into the pods, with pale flowers followed by purple-striped seed heads that are as decorative as the blooms. Love-in-a-Mist Mixed Colors gives you a range of tones from a single packet, which suits gardeners who want a loose, unplanned look. All three grow to a similar cottage-garden scale and pair well with zinnias, cosmos, and other cut flowers, so mixing them into a cutting bed is easy.

Growing Nigella Plant Seeds: Sow in Place, Then Sow Again

Nigella is happiest when you direct sow it where it will grow, because its fine roots dislike being moved. Germination takes 10 to 14 days in soil around 60 to 65°F, and the seed needs light to sprout, so press it onto the surface and cover it very lightly. Plants typically reach 18 to 24 inches tall, and the listings in this collection show 61 to 75 days to maturity, which makes them quick enough to fit around other crops. To stretch the show, sow a small batch every couple of weeks early in the season instead of all at once. The Seedtime garden planning software builds a planting calendar around your frost dates and lets you schedule those staggered sowings, and the layout planner helps you tuck them between vegetable rows or into a dedicated cutting bed.

Buy Nigella Seeds with One Shipping Charge

When you buy nigella seeds here, you can add seeds from multiple suppliers to the same order and pay one flat shipping charge, or qualify for free standard shipping on Seedtime-fulfilled orders of $49 or more to the lower 48 states. Paid Seedtime members get 20% off seed packets marked "Fulfilled by Seedtime" and 5% off everything else in the store. You can start planning for free, and if you want unlimited calendars and layouts along with those store discounts, compare Seedtime's plans to find the right fit. Whether you want a single packet of organic nigella seeds for a cutting garden or a full border, it all ships together.