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. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Choose a site in full sun with average, well-drained soil.
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Sow seeds outdoors in early spring directly into the soil. In USDA zones 8 to 11, sow in fall for bloom the following summer.
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Keep soil evenly moist.
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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.)
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Tear out and discard plants in fall, after frost fells them.
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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.
