Long flowering and prolific pincushions are perfect for picking.
flowering through summer, butterflies and bees love its sweet nectar. We love its luminous colour and long vase life.

Pincushions, also known as Scabious, are associated with chalk grassland - and are especially abundant here in Hampshire. They thrive on our calcareous, well-drained soils. Pincushions are not to be confused with 'Devil's-bit scabious', which grows in marshes and wetlands. It gets its name from the Latin name - 'Scabere', meaning to scratch - from its traditional use as a treatment for skin conditions, such as scabies and the sores of bubonic plague. Its common name arises from the fact that its roots look truncated, as if bitten off, legend has it, by the Devil.