Strawflower Uk. Strawflower in British English. Strawflowers Bracteantha are easy-care and elegant annual plants that offer a long bloom season.
This heat-loving drought-tolerant plant is valued for its charming straw-like blooms in bright shades of red orange pink purple yellow and white. As well as making handsome garden plants Strawflowers looks superb in arrangements giving unique texture and you can dry them upside down and use them indefinitely. The stems with this type of flower can be a little scruffy and sometimes the heads droop.
Soft silvery-grey foliage is attractive all summer.
Cut flowers as needed for arrangements and drying and deadhead any spent flowers. Family Asteraceae composites See also immortelle. 26022021 The strawflower can behave as a short-lived perennial in zones 8 to 11 returning reliably for two to three years. In midsummer drench plants with a liquid plant food to stimulate new growth.