Scabiosa columbaria | Lilac-Flowered Scabious Benzakein Chai and autumn snowflakes

and autumn snowflakes

so it's wise to pop it in a pot and bring indoors till after the last frosts

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Scabiosa columbaria | Lilac-Flowered Scabious Benzakein Chai and autumn snowflakesScabiosa columbaria is a clump forming dainty perennial. In the summer the plants bear tall wiry stems that pop up above the finely cut leaves. The flowers are a very pretty, pale lilac colour in the typical petalled, pincushion style of Scabiosas although these flowers are smaller and more dainty than other varieties (it's also called small scabious, or dwarf pincushion plant). These gorgeous plants flower for weeks on end in late summer for months