An upright cool-season annual growing to 18 inches tall. Plants produce long, narrow gray-green leaves and fragrant flowers in spikes held well above the foliage. Start new plants from seed during fall through winter. Stock is a colorful winter annual with blue, lavender, pink, red, white and yellow blossoms.
Flowers are fragrant and usually double.
Plants are in bloom December though March. Add plantings to flower beds, or use them to fill container gardens. You may have to start your own stock from seed because few garden centers offer transplants.