Planting guide

When to plant phacelia

Lavender-blue, coiled flowers beloved by bees; also a quick green manure. In Melbourne it goes in Mar, Apr, May, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec.

Start as: Seed, sown in place
Flowers in: 7–10 wks
Spacing: 15 cm
Depth: 0.5 cm
Sun: Full sun (6+ hours)
Water: Low
Effort: Easy
Colours: blue, purple
Frost-tender: No

When it goes in

● means phacelia can go in that month, ○ means wait. Worked out from each town's climate zone and season, the way planting guides do it. Pick your town for the full list for that month.

Australian towns and cities
Town	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Sydney	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Melbourne	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Brisbane	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○
Perth	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Adelaide	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Gold Coast	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Newcastle	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Sunshine Coast	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○
Canberra	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●
Central Coast	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Geelong	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Wollongong	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Hobart	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●
Townsville	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○
Cairns	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○
Toowoomba	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Darwin	○	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○
Ballarat	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●
Mandurah	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Bendigo	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Launceston	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●
Mackay	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○
Rockhampton	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○
Coffs Harbour	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Blue Mountains	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●
Bunbury	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Bundaberg	○	○	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	○
Alice Springs	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Mildura	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Port Macquarie	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●

Around the world
Town	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Auckland	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Wellington	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Christchurch	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●	●
London	○	○	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○
Manchester	○	○	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○
Edinburgh	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Dublin	○	○	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○
New York City	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Los Angeles	○	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	○
Chicago	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Seattle	○	○	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○
Austin	○	●	●	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	○
Toronto	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Vancouver	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○
Cape Town	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Johannesburg	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	●	●	●	●	●
Singapore	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●
Mumbai	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	●	●	●
Paris	○	○	●	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○
Berlin	○	○	●	●	●	○	○	○	○	○	○	○