General Information

  • Category- Flower
  • Binomial Name- Aconitum
  • Common Names- conite, monkshood, wolfsbane, leopard’s bane, women’s bane
  • Spread- 12-24 inches**
  • Height- 24-48 inches**
  • Average Production- 50-100 flowers per plant
  • Days to Maturity- 200-300 days*

Environmental Requirements

  • Soil-  Well-drained soils, Loamy or Sandy
  • Soil ph- 5.5-6.5
  • Soil Moisture- 15%
  • Sun Requirements- Full Sun
  • Best Time to Plant- In early spring (February-March)
  • Temperature range- 14-32 Celsius

Tips to Grow Monk’s Hood

  1. Arrange good quality Monk’s Hood seed.
  2. The soil should be Well-drained, Loamy, and sandy.
  3. Sow Monkshood seeds directly in the garden in late fall and early winter. Plant the seeds 1⁄8 inch  deep and 1 inch  apart
  4. Look for the seedlings to sprout in the spring. Thin the seedlings to 1 or 1 ½ feet apart
  5. Spread a two- to a three-inch depth of organic mulch around the monkshood plant.
  6. Deadhead flowers as they die. Deadheading means removing the dead flower stalks as the flowers fade or after they are killed off by a hard frost.
  7. When you deadhead flowers, it allows the plant to put its energy towards growing new blooms.

** The values are standard values but might change a bit.

*To get flowers quickly, the users can buy plants from nursery.

Flowers