• Pink and purple Love-in-a-Mist flowers from Hudson Valley Seed Co. featuring delicate, airy blooms with intricate foliage.
  • Love in a Mist flowers from Hudson Valley Seed Co., showcasing delicate blue and purple blooms with airy foliage.
  • Bright Love in a Mist flowers from Hudson Valley Seed Co., showcasing delicate, airy blooms in soft pastel colors.
  • Colorful Love in a Mist flowers from Hudson Valley Seed Co. showcasing delicate, airy blooms with soft pastel petals.
  • Pink and purple Love-in-a-Mist flowers from Hudson Valley Seed Co. with delicate, feathery foliage and intricate blooms.
  • Love in a Mist flowers from Hudson Valley Seed Co., featuring delicate, airy blue and purple blooms in a natural garden setting.
  • Pink and purple Love-in-a-Mist flowers from Hudson Valley Seed Co. with delicate, feathery foliage and intricate flower blossoms.
  • Purple Love-in-a-Mist flowers from Hudson Valley Seed Co., showcasing delicate, airy blooms with intricate foliage.
  • A vibrant bouquet of Love in a Mist flowers with delicate blue and purple blooms, from Hudson Valley Seed Co.
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Hudson Valley Seed Co.

Love in a Mist

Nigella damascena

Certified Organic

Ethereal blooms and intriguing seed pods.

The feathery foliage of Love in a Mist, or nigella, creates its own climate; a clump creates a wispy, atmospheric effect. Out of the emerald vapors float jewels of quartz, sapphire, and amethyst, which give way to levitating seed pods shaped like vertical dirigibles. This plant is related to the Indian culinary and medicinal spice known as kalonji, but it has a more showy flower and seed pod. The dried seed heads can be saved and used for arrangements and crafts. Still, you may find mood-lifting healing by collecting the flowers and pods of these Persian jewels out of the misty calm. 

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100 seeds | Art Pack $5.79
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Growing instructions
Direct sow 2-3 weeks before last frost, or start indoors a few weeks before that and then transplant (carefully—Love in a Mist can be temperamental at transplant time). Love in a Mist tolerates dry conditions and likes average soil. May self-sow.
Product Details
Days to Maturity 75 days
Days to Germination 7-14 days
Width at Maturity 12-18"
Height at Maturity 12-18"
Hardiness Zone Range Annual
Sun Conditions Full Sun (8+ Hours Sun)
Planting Depth Surface-1/4"
Row Spacing 18"
Plant Spacing 8-12"
About the artist
Artwork by Polly M. Law. Polly makes paper dolls with deep personal issues. This one, outfitted in feathery garb surrounded by mist, seems lost in contemplation of the exquisite complexity of Nigella's leaf, flower, and pod.
    Pink and purple Love-in-a-Mist flowers from Hudson Valley Seed Co. featuring delicate, airy blooms with intricate foliage.
    Love in a Mist flowers from Hudson Valley Seed Co., showcasing delicate blue and purple blooms with airy foliage.
    Bright Love in a Mist flowers from Hudson Valley Seed Co., showcasing delicate, airy blooms in soft pastel colors.
    Colorful Love in a Mist flowers from Hudson Valley Seed Co. showcasing delicate, airy blooms with soft pastel petals.
    Pink and purple Love-in-a-Mist flowers from Hudson Valley Seed Co. with delicate, feathery foliage and intricate blooms.
    Love in a Mist flowers from Hudson Valley Seed Co., featuring delicate, airy blue and purple blooms in a natural garden setting.
    Pink and purple Love-in-a-Mist flowers from Hudson Valley Seed Co. with delicate, feathery foliage and intricate flower blossoms.
    Purple Love-in-a-Mist flowers from Hudson Valley Seed Co., showcasing delicate, airy blooms with intricate foliage.
    A vibrant bouquet of Love in a Mist flowers with delicate blue and purple blooms, from Hudson Valley Seed Co.
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    Michael A.

    My son and daughter in law chose seeds ( love in a mist/ bachelor buttons/wild bergamot) Art packs - along with a quote from Cicero- “if you have a garden and a library, you have everything.” - for their wedding favors.

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    Larissa

    Stunning art, perfect gift for any gardener.

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    Diane Q.

    Great seed and beautiful packaging!

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    Kara

    Dreamy Nigella
    These are absolutely worth growing and were a highlight of this crazy year! The foliage is pretty, the flowers are lovely, the dried seed pods are fantastic and the bees absolutely went nuts the entire season over them! Really thrilled with seedlings I didn’t expect much out of! Yay!