I grow lots of blue flowered plants. What's your favourite? How about linum perenne to start? In summer, and grown next to santolina lemon fizz....yellow foliage....and behind a yellow osteospermum it is a real eye catcher all summer long.
I agree; blue flax is stunning, the seeds for mine sort of fell into my pocket when I was visiting a large botanical garden. It just flowers for months in poor soil and is very undemanding.
Nutcutlet, is this ceratostigma w. what is known as 'poor mans plumbago'? I have it in my garden, but it was given to me as a viable cutting about 10 years ago by a client as 'plumbago' but I was told by a neighbour that it was a 'fake' plumbago. Any info on that?
Might be artjak. I've heard all that genus referred to as plumbago. This one is shrubby. It sometimes dies back in a hard winter but isn't herbaceous like C. plumbaginoides. I also had C. griffithii , also shrubby but smaller, that couldn't do the winters.
Nutcutlet, I also have c. wilmotty and love it. Most years it has beautiful red autumn leaves as well as the intense blue flowers. I've always understood an alternative name for it to be hardy plumbago, artjak.
Blue flax sounds worth looking into. I hope chickens don't eat it!
Nutcutlet, I occasionally find self-sown seedlings and have managed to grow one on. The trouble is I'm not the most attentive of gardeners and would have more success with seedlings and maybe cuttings if I were!
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I agree; blue flax is stunning, the seeds for mine sort of fell into my pocket when I was visiting a large botanical garden. It just flowers for months in poor soil and is very undemanding.
Ceratostigma wilmottianum, very blue and first choice for the hummmingbird hawkmoth when we get a summer.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Verdun, I guess I was born lucky
Nutcutlet, is this ceratostigma w. what is known as 'poor mans plumbago'? I have it in my garden, but it was given to me as a viable cutting about 10 years ago by a client as 'plumbago' but I was told by a neighbour that it was a 'fake' plumbago. Any info on that?
Might be artjak. I've heard all that genus referred to as plumbago. This one is shrubby. It sometimes dies back in a hard winter but isn't herbaceous like C. plumbaginoides. I also had C. griffithii , also shrubby but smaller, that couldn't do the winters.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Nutcutlet, I also have c. wilmotty and love it. Most years it has beautiful red autumn leaves as well as the intense blue flowers. I've always understood an alternative name for it to be hardy plumbago, artjak.
Blue flax sounds worth looking into. I hope chickens don't eat it!
FloSilverFairy, have you ever managed to propagate it? I've failed to get seed, early and late cuttings Have all died. Any suggestions?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Nutcutlet, I occasionally find self-sown seedlings and have managed to grow one on. The trouble is I'm not the most attentive of gardeners and would have more success with seedlings and maybe cuttings if I were!