General Description:
Versatile garden performer. Great border plant, ground cover or filler. There is a variety for most exposures. Blooms can persist from three to six weeks.
Album: Pure white, heat tolerant, foliage turns crimson in fall. Excellent for edging.18-24"
-Ankum's Pride: White flowers; vigorous grower. 12-18"
-Bevans variety: Deep purple-red blooms, mid-green foliage, fragrant, Even succeeds in dry shade, under trees. Sun or shade.12-15" Good fall foliage color.
-Biokovo: white flowers with pink centre. Drought tolerant 12"
-Brookside: Clear blue with pale centre, fast growing. Good vigor and long bloom time.18-24"
-Elizabeth: Pink flowers, purple foliage. 24-30"
-magnificum: Showy, rich violet with dark veins; foliage turns red in fall. 18-24"
-Patricia: Large cupped, deep mauve-pink flowers, with dark eye 24-30"
-Sanquineum: saucer shaped magenta-purple showy blooms, deep green lacy foliage turns red in fall, mound forming ground cover. Fairly drought tolerant.12-16"
-Variegatum: variegated, fragrant foliage
-sang. striatum: Pale lilac-rose flowers with red veins; best ground cover, continuous blooms. Excellent for edging. 6-8"
Care and Maintenance:
Benefits from hard pruning after flowering to rejuvenate the foliage and encourage reblooming.
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Uses & Features:
Ground Covers to
Border Plants
Foliage interest
Cup-shaped flowers
Versatile
Fall color in foliage
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Varieties Available:
x Brookside Blue
maculatum:
Elizabeth
Variegatum
magnificum:
platypetalum
palustre:
pratense Striatum
sanguineum:
Album
Ankum's Pride
Sanguineum
var. Striatum
cantabrigiense:
Biokovo
hybrid Patricia
Cinereum splendens
johnson's Blue
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