Name: Jane Tobyhanna, PA (Zone 5a) The "Garden" is my Happy Place!
Got a question about bachelor buttons. I love them, but I find they are somewhat lanky. Is there any way to make them bushier? Plant them closer together? Keep pinching them back as they grow? Any ideas?
The dwarf ones "Jubilee Gem" are less lanky.
However if any of the Bachelor Buttons are in really fertile soil----they will bush out, but then give few flowers. I found that the hard way one year when i sowed a row in the vege plot.
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b, and F (Zone 9b) I'm always on my way out the door..
If they have enough room to flop gracefully in between plants they can still look pretty good. I'm really enjoying the multitude of blooms on the ones growing here.
Once they're down each flowering stalk is about 12" tall...just about right.
