You won't find these anywhere but SeedCult! These are a result of my years of cross-breeding these. 

My love affair with strawflowers started when I first opened my Etsy shop, back when I exclusively made dream catchers and intricate floral smudge bundles. Growing up in a florist shop, I always appreciated the works of art that can be created with flowers. 
 
Fresh flowers can be a guilty pleasure to purchase. You are in the store for groceries and those long stemmed roses catch your eye and you tell yourself that it is money frivolously spent, but is it? If it brings you joy? I used to only allow myself to get them when entertaining and after thoroughly cleaning my house, like a reward for a job well done. 
 
They, wilt, they die, but they bring you joy. Isn't is that what this is all about? So I felt a similar way about smudge bundles. You make this beautifully and painstakingly, wrapped to perfection, bundle of herbs, covered in dried flowers and you burn it right into the atmosphere. I would spend hours making them, so needless to say, my profit was nil. No ones fault but my own that it had to be "just so." To top it off, people don't want to spend a lot of money on something that they, well.... burn into the atmosphere, lol and I can't say I blame them. Anyway, I digress. 
 
So I still make them here and there, because they bring me a sense of peace and joy but I have to feed my family too, so I shifted my focus to growing the things that make these beautiful works of art, not that they are not already works of art in themselves. 
 
I wanted a strawflower that was black or at least as close as I could get to black, so I got some purple-red and some dragon's fire and I cross-bred them and have continued to breed the offspring over the past couple of years. This was the result. A touch darker than purple-red, less yellow centers than dragon's fire. I love them. I have named them Dragon's Den. You'll get variations of purple and near black. 
 
They are fantastic dried and will retain their petals and shape. Pick them a little on the early side, if you like that rounded look, versus the fully open, almost over extended blooms, when they are left on the plant too long, although you can harvest those for seeds. 
 
Strawflowers are basically everlasting, they appear dried even when they are fresh. They have a crispy/crunchy texture. They are great for using for craft projects or accents for photographs. 
 
Grows 3-4 feet tall
 
This is for 20 seeds.
 
Strawflowers are a short lived perennial, returning every year for 2-3 years in zones 8-11. Can be grown in cooler regions as an annual from spring to autumn. I’m in zone 10 and I treat them as an annual and just re seed whenever they start to wither for a constant supply. Allow some flower heads to dry on the plant and collect the seeds. (They will open fully with their petals facing in the opposite direction and seeds will develop in the center.)
 
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