Yes it is a dark leaved variety. It went in a pot when I bought it as there wasn't any room in the garden and stayed there ever since. I have removed some compost and replaced it with fresh.
I wasn't sure if it would do okay in the shade but I will take Lyn's advice and plant it out under my plum tree. Where is it best to plant it - front or back of the border?
I like them just a little way in because the green stays fairly low and the flower spikes shoot up about 3ft, adding structure. Do take some cuttings next Spring though, they root so easily and will flower the same year. I have the dark leaf one, thats the spikes over on the left, paler blue. It looks much the same here but it is darker leafed.
Edited to add, these are in shade almost all day, just sun late afternoon, its a damp old corner.
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Hello
Thanks for all the advice.
Yes it is a dark leaved variety. It went in a pot when I bought it as there wasn't any room in the garden and stayed there ever since. I have removed some compost and replaced it with fresh.
I wasn't sure if it would do okay in the shade but I will take Lyn's advice and plant it out under my plum tree. Where is it best to plant it - front or back of the border?
I like them just a little way in because the green stays fairly low and the flower spikes shoot up about 3ft, adding structure. Do take some cuttings next Spring though, they root so easily and will flower the same year. I have the dark leaf one, thats the spikes over on the left, paler blue. It looks much the same here but it is darker leafed.
Edited to add, these are in shade almost all day, just sun late afternoon, its a damp old corner.
Hi Lyn
Thanks for your reply and the photo. I hope mine improves and gets as big as yours. Fingers crossed.
Pop it in the ground, have you got a sprinkling of bone meal or chicken pelle
ts down the hole, get it off to a good start, water well and it should be away.