Bishop's flower · Khemisset, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco
When to sow bishop's flowers in Khemisset
Main outdoor window
12 Jan - 9 Feb
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
2 February
In Khemisset, on your chosen risk.
Ready to pick
22 Apr - 22 May
If you plant at the start of the window.
The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.
Step by step in Khemisset
Each window is a range, not a single day. Earlier in the range buys you a longer season; later in it buys you a safer one.
Start indoors
7 Dec - 5 Jan
Eight weeks before your last frost, under cover or on a windowsill.
Sow direct
12 Jan - 9 Feb
Three weeks before your last frost.
Plant out
19 Jan - 16 Feb
Two weeks before your last frost.
In flower
22 Apr - 22 May
Bishop's flowers through the year
Against the frost risk in Khemisset
Why these dates
Sow direct three weeks before the last frost, or start indoors eight weeks before it in modules - it moves reasonably well when small, unlike most umbellifers. Support a stand with a single row of netting; at 1.2m it goes over in wind. An autumn sowing gives the strongest stems.
Hardy to about -12C as a young plant, which makes it one of the most reliable hardy annuals for autumn sowing in zone 7 and milder. Tolerates heat better than most of this group.
Seed packets and extension guides express timing as weeks either side of the last spring frost, because that is the only reference point that travels. Bishop's flowers are timed from 8 weeks before that frost for an indoor start, with planting out 2 weeks before it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Khemisset.
Khemisset sits in zone 10b, which is milder than this crop wants, and a winter that never really arrives is its own problem. The dates below still describe the right time of year; the open question is survival rather than timing.
Also in Khemisset
Other flowers to time
Growing bishop's flowers in Khemisset
When should I plant bishop's flowers in Khemisset?
Aim for 12 Jan - 9 Feb in an average year. If you would rather not gamble on the weather, wait until 14 Jan - 11 Feb - by then frost has finished in nine years out of ten.
When will bishop's flowers be ready to harvest in Khemisset?
Expect to start picking around 22 Apr - 22 May, based on 100 to 130 days to maturity from the planting date calculated for this location.
How much frost will bishop's flowers tolerate?
Hardy to about -12C as a young plant, which makes it one of the most reliable hardy annuals for autumn sowing in zone 7 and milder. Tolerates heat better than most of this group.