Fireball Strawflower Seeds (Organic)

Xerochrysum bracteatum ‘Firebrand’ Strawflower brings bold, sunset-orange color to your cutting garden—and keeps it coming long after the season ends. These eye-catching blooms open with deep orange “petals” (papery bracts) surrounding bright yellow centers, creating a fiery, high-impact look in beds, borders, and bouquet rows. While strawflowers take their time to bloom, this variety is truly worth the wait: once it starts flowering, you’ll have crisp, long-lasting stems for fresh arrangements and picture-perfect dried bouquets. With tall, upright, non-branching plants and sparse foliage, ‘Firebrand’ is easy to tuck into a dedicated cut-flower patch or mix into sunny ornamental plantings.

Variety Details

• Botanical name: Xerochrysum bracteatum
• Plant type: Annual
• Growth habit: Upright
• Crop category: Flower seed
• Flower character: Xerochrysum bracteatum ‘Firebrand’ Strawflower brings bold, sunset-orange color to your cutting garden—and keeps it coming long after the season ends.
• Product format: Seed packet

Sowing & Growing

• Light: Full Sun
• Planting season: Spring
• Starting location: Start Indoors & Transplant
• Recorded soil pH: 6.0 - 6.8

Prepare a weed-reduced seedbed for Fireball Strawflower and use the recorded planting season, depth, and light requirements. Press shallow-sown seed into good soil contact and keep the seed zone from drying during establishment. Thin or transplant only when the growth habit and spacing call for it. Leave enough room for mature width and air movement. Bloom timing and final height can shift with sowing date, climate, soil, moisture, and competition, so use listed figures as planning ranges.

Place Fireball Strawflower where its recorded height and growth habit fit the surrounding planting. Shorter companions can be positioned toward bed edges, while taller stems need room where they will not shade small seedlings too early. If cutting flowers, harvest with clean tools at the stage appropriate to the bloom form. If leaving flowers in place, observe how bloom sequence changes through the season and record which sowing date performed best at the site.

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