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Lunaria annua

Common Name

Honesty, Satin flower, Money Plant.

Soil

Chalk, Sand

Sun Aspect

Full Sun or Part Shade

Soil Moisture

Moist

Plant Type

Annual

Height x Spread in feet

3 x 1

Foliage

Light to Mid Green

Flower Colour in Month(s). Fruit

White to light Purple in May-July followed by silvery flat seed pods.

Companion Plants

Lunaria annua 'Munstead Purple', Centanthus ruber, Sedum 'Autumn Joy.

How to Grow Honesty, from The Telegraph:-
"White tulips - Tulipa 'Purissima' or Tulipa 'Spring Green' - are especially eye-catching when planted with the white-flowered honesty Lunaria annua 'Alba Variegata'.

If this is all too tasteful, mix the purple-flowered variety with orange tulips - Tulipa 'Ballerina' is ideal and its elegant flowers are also scented.

Purple honesty is particularly good against any of the spurges, the limier the green of their bracts the better. Euphorbia polychroma or Euphorbia palustris are at their most acidic when the honesty is in flower.

For an especially dramatic contrast, why not sow either the purple or white honesty among the red-suckering stems of Cornus alba sibirica."

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