How to Grow Honesty (Lunaria Annua)

One of the most intriguing of flowers, this plant produces glittering, paperlike disks that earn it its other name: money plant. Technically a biennial, this plant grows one year and produces flowers (and the much-valued disks) the next. It makes an excellent dried flower.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Bypass Pruners
• Compost Makers
• Hand Cultivators
• Mulch
• Plants
• Seeds

1. Choose a site in full sun with average, well-drained soil.
2. Sow seeds outdoors in early spring directly into the soil. In USDA zones 8 to 11, sow in fall for bloom the following summer.
3. Keep soil evenly moist.
4. Let honesty planted in spring overwinter so it can fulfill its life cycle and produce disks the following year. (If planted in fall, honesty will produce disks the following summer.)
5. Tear out and discard plants in fall, after frost fells them.

Tips & Warnings

• Honesty often reseeds. After it produces disks, leave a few on the plant until frost to allow it to scatter its seeds.
• Honesty typically reaches a height of 1 1/2 to 3 feet.

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