Annual herb with a bushy and freely growing habit to 60-80cm. Has hairy leaves on hollow stems with pendant sprays of azure blue star-shaped flowers with five petals. It flowers freely all summer and early fall. Can be cut back to encourage more flowers and to control sprawl.
This drought-tolerant herbaceous biennial has fuzzy basal leaves and bears spikes of red-purple flowers that attract bees and butterflies. Height is 12-20 inches.
While superlatives are easily bandied about these days, this is nonetheless a plant that warrants the term magnificent. Growing up to 4m (12ft) in height this giant biennial commands attention. With thousands of small flowers in shades of sky blue to rose produced throughout the summer of its...
This biennial starts with an attractive rosette of leaves in the first year and busts forth in the second year with flower spikes that range from pink to deep red, depending on the individual bloom’s age.
Averaging 1 to 1.5m(3-5ft) in height, this biennial will produce a succession of bright blue flowers 1-2cm(1/2 to 1in) in diameter on tall spires from late spring through to midsummer in its second year. Leaves are narrow lanceolate and can grow to 30cm (1ft) in length at the base of the stem, but...
This is the Forget-Me-Not of old fashioned gardens everywhere. A treat and a treasure that is easy to grow. These biennials or short-lived perennials will self-seed where happy, which is in most gardens. Height to 6 inches.
This unusual plant from the Tibetan Himalayas is rarely seen by western gardeners and is rarely available. The tight rosettes extend in the spring to produce 30cm (12in) stems that sport a succession of 2cm (1in) primrose yellow tubular flowers for most of the summer. An exotic but subtle plant for...
