‘Antique Apple Green’ Heirloom Bells of Ireland Seeds

Antique Apple Green brings architecture without heaviness. Tall, branching candelabras are stacked with apple-green, shell-shaped bracts, each cupping a tiny white flower and giving neighboring colors an unexpectedly elegant frame.

The graceful 2½–3-foot stems carry a fresh, grassy meadowsweet scent. They are striking in summer borders, distinctive in bouquets, and exceptionally handsome when air-dried for arrangements that last beyond the season.

• Botanical name: Moluccella laevis
• Cultivar: Antique Apple Green
• Life cycle: Annual
• Colors: Apple-green bracts with tiny white flowers
• Exposure: Full sun to light shade
• Sowing: Direct sow after frost or start indoors 6–8 weeks early
• Planting depth: 1/2 in.
• Germination: 10–20 days
• Mature height: 2½–3 ft.
• Final spacing: 10–12 in.
• Approximate seed count: 150–160

For fresh stems, cut before the lowest cups brown; for drying, wait until the shells are open along the stem. Browse more memorable cutting flowers in our flower seed packets.