The other half of the cornflower story. This is not the tidy cottage-garden cornflower of a wedding buttonhole. It is closer to a July meadow at the point where the pollinators have moved on and the flowers are fading to a haze, and it is honest about what a late-season cornflower looks like.
Worth being clear about what you are getting, because it surprises people. The heads are small and papery in faded blues, pinks, whites and mauve rather than full masses of petal. The stems are wiry, silver-green, branching and slightly bent, and they are part of the look rather than just something to hold the flowers up. Each stem carries several heads at different heights, so a bunch gives you dozens of points spread across a generous, open, airy spread. If you want cornflowers for confetti, this is the wrong product and the loose petal bags are the right one.
That gone-to-seed moment is exactly what gives an arrangement air and movement, and it is something nursery-perfect stems cannot do. Stems are around 60cm. Two honest notes. They are brittle, so expect a few fragments when you unpack, and handle from the base. And blue is the least stable pigment there is, so keep them off a south-facing sill if you want the colour to last years rather than months.
