These bright blue flowers grow like stars. Since ages these flowers are said to possess metaphysical properties. Cornflowers can thrive well in full sun and can grow in any good garden soil. The cornflower mix is a hardy upright, slender annual. It is an ancient plant of British gardens; and a wild variety that is a well-known of the cornfields. Its flowers range from white, pink, maroon, to purple. It is useful as a cut flower and can be grown in annual and mixed borders.