{"title":"Stokesia","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"stokesia-laevis-klaus-jelitto","title":"Stokesia laevis 'Klaus Jelitto'","description":"\u003cp\u003eLots of large, lilac blue cornflower-type flowers with frilled petals are carried on upright stems with spear-shaped mid green foliage. Commonly known as 'Stokes' Aster', this has become one of our most popular plants. The intensity of the flower colour is quite mesmerising and so pretty. Just keep deadheading it to promote further flowering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for the front of a cottage garden border or as edging along a path, it also looks wonderful planted in large drifts. Alternatively grow it in containers around a favourite seating area, where you can watch the butterflies flock to it. If a severe winter is threatened, mulch deeply with dry matter in autumn. It performs best in a fertile, free draining soil that retains some moisture, but is not overly wet in winter. Avoid heavy, moist soils.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeight x Spread: 45cm x 50cm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants","offers":[{"title":"3 Litre","offer_id":52922093666646,"sku":"105890","price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"1 Litre","offer_id":53626717798742,"sku":null,"price":9.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1003\/4928\/0598\/files\/Stokesialaevis_KlausJelitto_-1.jpg?v=1774720579"},{"product_id":"stokesia-laevis-melspbr","title":"Stokesia laevis 'Mel's' PBR","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe large, deep lavender-blue flowers of this exceptional Stoke’s Aster are quite unlike anything else in the mid to late summer border. Held upright on stocky stems, the slightly shaggy blooms are intense in colour and impossible to walk past — there are very few flowers that can match them for sheer depth of hue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlant ‘Mel’s’ in pride of place at the front of a sunny border or in a prominent container where it can be properly admired. Evergreen through mild winters, it bulks up steadily in average to moist, reasonably well-drained soil on a south or west-facing site. Bees cannot get enough of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeight × Spread: 30cm × 30cm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants","offers":[{"title":"1 Litre","offer_id":53648360374614,"sku":null,"price":9.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"3 Litre","offer_id":53029433639254,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1003\/4928\/0598\/files\/Stokesialaevis_Mel_s_PBR.jpg?v=1775289121"}],"url":"https:\/\/hardysplants.live\/collections\/stokesia.oembed","provider":"Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants","version":"1.0","type":"link"}