100 Seeds Baby's Breath Covent Garden White Gypsophila elegans Delicate White Flowers Cottage Cutting Garden

Baby's Breath Covent Garden White is an annual Gypsophila elegans prized for its airy clouds of tiny white blooms. Its delicate, branching stems create a soft, billowing texture that brings lightness and contrast to beds, borders, and mixed containers, making it a favorite for cottage-style and cutting gardens.

These graceful white flowers work beautifully as filler in fresh and dried arrangements, adding volume and a delicate haze behind bolder blooms like roses, dahlias, and zinnias. Plants grow quickly and bloom over a long season when given good drainage and regular moisture. For cut flowers, harvest stems when roughly half the florets are open. Direct sowing where plants are to grow is simplest, as seedlings resent disturbance.

Species: Gypsophila elegans
Variety: Covent Garden White
Type: Annual
Plant_Habit: Upright, branching, airy
Sun: Full sun
Soil: Well-drained, sandy to average loam
Days_to_Harvest: 50 to 65
Zones: 2 to 11 as an annual
Germination: 7 to 14 days at 65 to 70F
Sowing: Direct sow after last frost, or start indoors 4 to 6 weeks before
Spacing: 8 to 12 inches apart
Notes: Excellent fresh or dried filler flower; avoid overly rich soil