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Indoor Growing Kit

Saponaria officinalis BOUNCING BET, SOAPWORT Seed, PERENNIAL SHRUB

$ 4.35 - $ 21.95
$ 4.35
$ 4.35 - $ 21.95
$ 4.35
Size: 10 Seeds

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Common Soapwort ( Saponaria officinalis ) is a vespertine flower , and a common perennial plant from the carnation family ( Caryophyllaceae ). Other common names are Bouncing Bet and Sweet William, locally it is simply "the Soapwort" although there are about 20 species of soapworts altogether. more...
* An herbaceous perennial, erect, with 3/4"white or pinkish fragrant flowers in terminal clusters and in the leaf axils, blooms throughout summer, spreads by creeping rhizomes, roots used as a soap substitute, grows on roadsides, native to Europe, but widely naturalized in the eastern U.S. Roots & seeds are poisonous.
* Soapwort's main medicinal use is as an expectorant. Its strongly irritant action within the gut is thought to stimulate the cough reflex and increase the production of a more fluid mucus within the respiratory passages

Cultivation

Scarification: Soak in water, let stand in water for 12 hoursStratification: warm statify for 2 to 4 weeks, cold stratify for 4 weeks, maintain even moisture during stratification

Germination: sow seed 3/8" deep, tamp the soil, mulch the seed bed

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