Chinese Wolfsbane (Aconitum Carmichaelii) | 50+ seeds | Monkshood

Please find for sale 50+ seeds for Aconitum Carmichaelii better known as Chinese Wolfsbane and more generally as Monkshood. This is the blue flowering version - I also sell its closely related family member, the white-flowering Aconitum Vulparia. Chinese Wolfsbane is a stately delphinium-like plant that produces tall, rigid upright spikes of large, deep blue, hooded flowers in late summer

Wolfsbane is fairly common in the UK - mainly in damp woodlands, meadows and ditches.  Related to Delphiniums, it is a beautiful, stately perennial with tall spikes of white flowers from mid to late summer. Ideal for the middle or back of a herbaceous border. Its flowers are very attractive to a range of pollinators, especially bumblebees.

All parts of the plant, especially the roots, are poisonous. In centuries gone by the plant was use to produce poison-tipped arrows to kills wolves, hence the name. It has long had a myriad of magical & herbal uses, not least the warding off of vampires! Gloves should always be worn when handling the plants.

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Germination Guide

Can either be sown directly outside where they are to grow or sown indoors before planting out once risk of last front has passed.

Either way, Wolfsbane seeds require some cold stratification before sowing - sounds complicated but its not! All this does is to try and recreate what they would have in nature - a cold wet winter then the signal to germinate as the temperature rises in spring

1) Mix the seeds with some damp compost ina zip lock bag

2) Place in the fridge for 2 weeks

3) Sow the seeds immediately after the 2 weeks

Indoor Sowing (after stratification):

• Sprinkle seeds onto a well draining compost in seed tray
• Compost should ideally be a 50/50 mix of regular compost and horticultural sand
• Cover seeds with a fine layer or sieved compost
• Keep moist but not wet  - best to water from the bottom by having seeds tray inside a waterproof container.
• Keep at 15-20 degrees during day and 10-15 degrees at night
• Germination can be naturally slow and/or erratic,  3 to 8 weeks
• Thin seedlings and pot on as required
• Plant out once risk of last frost has passed