a flower seed Flax Blue Flower Seeds | Non-GMO, Vacuum-Sealed

a flower seed Flax Blue Flower Seeds | Non-GMO, Vacuum-SealedFlax Blue seeds for the garden that has decided it deserves better than the garden centre allows. Blue Flax produces flowers the colour of a clear sky in June and then self seeds as if to ensure you remember. Flax Blue is a slender perennial with clear sky blue flowers that self seeds and naturalises beautifully in meadow plantings. Each packet is hermetically vacuum sealed removing the oxygen that causes standard paper seed packets to lose

Flax Blue seeds for the garden that has decided it deserves better than the garden centre allows. Blue Flax produces flowers the colour of a clear sky in June and then self-seeds as if to ensure you remember.

Flax Blue is a slender perennial with clear sky-blue flowers that self-seeds and naturalises beautifully in meadow plantings. Each packet is hermetically vacuum-sealed -- removing the oxygen that causes standard paper seed packets to lose germination viability within approximately one year. State law requires a 3-year viability label on sealed packaging. NASA research on hermetic seed storage indicates viability of up to 10 years under proper conditions. Every packet is non-GMO and germination-tested at independent third-party labs before it earns its Japanese woodblock print artwork.

How to Grow Flax Blue from Seed

Sowing and Germination

Direct sow in spring or autumn. Full sun, well-drained soil. Prefers cool conditions.

Care and Harvest

Perennial. Delicate sky-blue flowers on slender stems. Self-seeds. Excellent in naturalistic plantings.

Why Vacuum-Sealed Seeds Last Longer

Standard paper seed packets are permeable to oxygen and moisture -- the two primary causes of seed degradation. Most paper-packaged seeds begin losing germination viability after approximately one year, contributing to significant garden-industry waste: packets purchased, not planted, expired, discarded. Shido Seeds are hermetically vacuum-sealed. The packet does not expire quietly in a drawer. It waits.

About the Packaging

Every Shido seed packet is illustrated in the style of Japanese 1910s woodblock printing -- designed and drawn in-house by Chive, the Toronto ceramics studio that has been exhibiting at the Chelsea Flower Show in London every year and does not, as a matter of principle, sell to big-box retailers. Customers collect the packets as a series. This was not the original plan.