Graceful, pendant, nodding flowers adding elegance and feeling to summer and winter decorations. Particularly useful at Christmas when they can be sprayed silver, gold etc,. Very easy to grow to perfection.

Best sown where they are to flower in spring. Sow 6mm (¼in) deep in rows 30cm (12in) apart in well cultivated soil which has been raked to a fine tilth.

Thin out the seedlings to 23cm (9in) apart. They will grow in sun and in well drained soil.

Gather when the heads have changed colour but before they start to break up, and hang them in bunches heads down in a cool, dry airy place.