Family: Boraginaceae
Common Name: Trevi Fountain Pulmonaria
Description | A Pulmonaria with superb spotted foliage an cobalt blue flowers. |
Plant Type | All Plants, Perennials Hardy |
Hardiness Zone | 4-9 |
Sunlight | part sun, partial shade |
Moisture | moist. quickly wilts in dry conditions |
Soil & Site | well drained, moist |
Flowers | cobalt blue, funnel shaped, borne in terminal clusters (drooping cymes) |
Leaves | deep green silver spotted leaves |
Dimensions | 12 inches tall by a spread of 25 inches |
Maintenance | will reseed jumping around the garden, seedlings probably will not be true to form |
Propagation | PP13047, division |
Cultivar Origin | Terra Nova Nursery, USA |
Misc Facts | Common name of lungwort is in reference to the supposed resemblance of the spotted leaves to a diseased lung. |
Author's Notes | The secrete to growing Pulmonary is partial shade and moist soils. In full sun or dry soils the foliage deteriorates as the summer progresses |
Notes & Reference | #04-Herbaceous Perennial Plants (Allan Armitage), #116-Pulmonarias and The Borage Family (Masha Bennit) |
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