Billy Button in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Craspedia Globosa syn. Pycnosorus globosus

Billy Button

Craspedia Globosa - 'Billy Button' or 'Drumsticks' - is a plant from Australia with narrow, silvery-grey leaves, and wiry stalks that bear yellow globe-shaped flowers. They make excellent dried flowers. They are usually grown as a half-hardy annual, but can be overwintered if given some protection from the cold, such as a cloche.it is not that tender and is well worth trying to nurse through an average British winter, with cloches perhaps, when the blooms in the second year will repay the effort taken. Makes excellent cut flowers and dried flowers

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plant Features

Full sun
Occasional watering
A little frost hardy: 32F (0°C)
Free draining

plant information

Common name

Billy Button

Latin name

Craspedia Globosa syn. Pycnosorus globosus

type

Half hardy annual or perennial

family

Asteraceae

ph

5.8 - 6.5 Acid - Neutral

Light

Full sun
Frost

A little frost hardy: 32F (0°C)

Soil

Free draining
Water

Occasional watering

Plant & bloom calendar

Best time to plant
When the plant will bloom

full grown dimensions

0.30 M 0.70 M

Craspedia Globosa syn. Pycnosorus globosus

Craspedia Globosa - 'Billy Button' or 'Drumsticks' - is a plant from Australia with narrow, silvery-grey leaves, and wiry stalks that bear yellow globe-shaped flowers. They make excellent dried flowers. They are usually grown as a half-hardy annual, but can be overwintered if given some protection from the cold, such as a cloche.it is not that tender and is well worth trying to nurse through an average British winter, with cloches perhaps, when the blooms in the second year will repay the effort taken. Makes excellent cut flowers and dried flowers

Propagating by seed

From Early Spring TO Late Spring

Sow under glass. Sprinkle seed onto moist well-drained seed compost, and cover barely with soil. Germination takes 2 weeks approx. When seedlings are large enough to handle harden the seedlings off before planting out with 30cm spacing after all risk of frost has passed. Can be sown in situ after all risk of frost has passed.

Planting

From Late Spring TO Early Summer

Plant out seedlings, after hardening off, into a sunny site in free-draining neutral or alkaline soil. Plant with 30 cm. spacing

Flowering

From Early Summer TO Late Summer

Globe-shaped yellow flowers on strong wiry stalks appear in Summer

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