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Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Plant Height: 30-40 cm
Plant Spread: 40-50 cm
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Pink
Bi-Color: soft and bright pink
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Uses: Cut Flower
Suitable as Annual
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Seeds: Days to germinate: Up to 21 days
Depth to plant seed: cover the seeds thin
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Other info: Space 6-9 inches apart. Serially sow to prolong bloom.
Containers: Suitable in 1 gallon

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Common names
  • Godetia
  • Satin Flower
  • Atlasflower
  • Farewell to Spring
  • Farewell-to-Spring
  • Herald-of-Summer
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Clarkia amoena
  • Synonym: Godetia azaleaflora

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Location: California
Date: August 2021
Location: St Annes Park, Dublin, Ireland 
Date: 2021-10-27
Farewell to spring
Location: In my Northern California garden
Date: 2006-06-17
Location: Coastal WA 9A
Date: 2023-09-16
Keeps blooming from spring to fall in our cool summer.
Location: Southern Maine
Date: August 2022
Location: Hamilton Square Garden, Historic City Cemetery, Sacramento CA.
Date: 2017-06-12
Keeping this in our handful of annuals for this perennials garden
Location: Darwell Rolling Woods, Alberta
Date: 2015-07-23
Location: Santa Cruz Mountains, California
Date: 2017-06-07
Clarkia- seed from Joe Ghio
Location: Cascade of Time Garden, Banff, Canada | August, 2022
Date: 2022-08-01
Location: My garden in southeast Nebraska
Date: 2012-06-06
Location: Clarkia amoena
Date: 2009-08-18
Location: My garden in southeast Nebraska
Date: 2012-05-29
Location: My garden in southeast Nebraska
Date: 2012-05-29
Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2012-06-11
Location: My Northeastern Indiana Gardens - Zone 5b
Date: 2011-04-03
Wintersown seedlings.
Location: Clarkia amoena
Date: 2009-08-18
Plant Events from our members
chelle On March 20, 2015 Seeds sown
Direct sown - Ash tree bed
lovesblooms On May 7, 2015 Seeds sown
direct in woodland-shade type spot
lovesblooms On April 20, 2015 Seeds germinated
lovesblooms On February 7, 2015 Seeds sown
winter sown
piksihk On March 1, 2018 Seeds sown
ed hume seeds; double azalea; round bed
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