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Blue plumbago seeds
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Produces loads of beautiful 1.5 inch azure-blue flowers over a long spring, summer and fall season. Grows to 4-6 feet or more tall and tolerates both extreme heat and low moisture. Perennial in zones 9-10, it can be grown as annual everywhere else and will grow to 2 feet tall the first year. A choice plant for patio containers, for banks, backgrounds and can even be tied to a trellis and grown as a vine. Escapade Blue is more compact and better branching than cutting grown plants...
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Native to South Africa, the sky-blue flowers, appearing in the warm months, have 5 petals narrowing to a long slender tube that are massed on short stems near the tips of the arching branches. The pale green oblong leaves are arranged alternately.
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You can plant this anywhere and it will thrive. I have had it in my garden for a few years and keep adding it to different areas. It is beautiful in shady places as well as sunny and it doesn't matter what your soil is like. It adds color for quite a long period of time and in the fall the foliage changes to beautiful shades of red. It also spreads nicely.
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Native to South Africa, the sky-blue flowers, appearing in the warm months, have 5 petals narrowing to a long slender tube that are massed on short stems near the tips of the arching branches. The pale green oblong leaves are arranged alternately.
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Plumbago auriculata Family: Plumbagnaceae (plumbago or leadwort family) Common Names: leadwort, plumbago, skyflower, P. capensis (syn.) Description Plumbago is an evergreen shrub with whip-like semiwoody stems that form a loose, rounded mound 3-10 ft (0.9-3 m)high with a similar spread. Plumbago can be pruned to grow like a vine and scramble over supports, or pruned into a more compact mounded shrub, or left to sprawl with its long, gracefully arching branches. The 2 in (5 cm) oblong leaves are a fresh, light...
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