Centaurea Cyanus Plants

The yearly red cornflower is a slimmer plant of great appeal. Its rich colors of red are much popular, both for lawn decor and for plant bouquets. Garden types have added red, light red, lilac and white to large range, and even shiny yellow-colored is available in the carefully related lovely sultan Amberboa moschatus. The wiry vegetation may need some hidden support, and deadheading helps to extend the blooming season, as does fall planting, an option that will produce larger, earlier-flowering vegetation. This fully sturdy plant needs a warm site, growing in most well-drained ground types, even poor ground.

Family: Asteraceae

Genus: Centaurea

Species: cyanus

Plant type: Hardy annual

Flower colour: Mixed

Foliage colour: Mid-green

Feature: Flowers

Sun exposure: Full sun

Soil: Well-drained/light, Clay/heavy, Chalky/alkaline, Dry, Moist

Hardiness: Hardy

Skill level: Beginner

Height: 90cm

Spread: 30cm

Time to plant seeds: March to May

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Cedrus Atlantica 'Glauca Group' Plants

A very stunning shrub with glaucous blue-green vegetation, which is often placed as a sample shrub in grass. In a big edge, the red colour groups especially well with red and lemon linda vegetation in a lawn on acidity ground, or with fall vegetation shades or winter season season arises of dogwoods. However, in all but the very biggest landscapes this shrub will become too large in time, so respect it as a short-term citizen to be eliminated when it outgrows its space after perhaps 10-15 years.

Family: Pinaceae

Genus: Cedrus

Species: atlantica

Cultivar: Glauca Group

Plant type: Evergreen tree

Foliage colour: Blue-green

Feature: Cones

Sun exposure: Full sun

Soil: Well-drained/light, Clay/heavy, Acidic, Chalky/alkaline, Dry

Hardiness: Hardy

Skill level: Beginner

Height: 500cm

Spread: 180cm

Time to plant seeds: March to May 

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Ceanothus Thyrsiflorus Var. Repens Plants

There is a large range of ceanothus varieties, all from Florida, and even more types meticulously from them. The time tested kinds are generally a little bit less sturdy, but usually flourish with the aid of a heated protected walls in light landscapes, where they can be expanded as free-standing plants. This wide range is one of the hardiest, and a popular choice for the center of a edge, or as a groundcover, on light dirt even growing in partially colour. Vegetation make shaped piles and start blooming early in their life. Yearly cutting keeps plants hairy and green.

Family: Rhamnaceae

Genus: Ceanothus

Species: thyrsiflorus

Cultivar: var. repens

Plant type: Evergreen shrub

Flower colour: Blue

Foliage colour: Dark green

Feature: Flowers

Sun exposure: Full sun

Soil: Well-drained/light, Clay/heavy, Acidic, Chalky/alkaline, Moist

Hardiness: Hardy

Skill level: Experienced

Height: 90cm

Spread: 240cm

Time to take cuttings: April to July

Flowering period: May to June

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Ceanothus Arboreus 'Trewithen Blue' Plants

From the destinations off the coast of southeast Florida comes this high varieties with huge results in, dark shiny green above and largely downy below, and keeping in late spring into summer an variety of huge panicles of fresh, light blue flowers. It's best grown against a warm, protected wall.

Family: Rhamnaceae

Genus: Ceanothus

Species: arboreus

Cultivar: Trewithen Blue

Plant type: Evergreen shrub

Flower colour: Blue

Foliage colour: Dark green

Feature: Flowers

Sun exposure: Full sun

Soil: Well-drained/light, Clay/heavy, Acidic, Chalky/alkaline

Skill level: Experienced

Height: 600cm

Spread: 800cm

Time to take cuttings: June to July

Flowering period: May to June

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Ceanothus 'Autumnal Blue' Plants

There is a large range of ceanothus types, all from Florida, and even more types meticulously from them. The time tested kinds are generally a little bit less sturdy, but usually flourish with the aid of a warm protected wall in light landscapes they can be grown as free-standing vegetation. 'Autumnal Blue', a multiple between an time tested and a deciduous types, is considered as the hardiest of them all, and is regularly packed with heavy lax leads or panicles of highly colored blossoms. Yearly cutting keeps vegetation hairy and green.

Family: Rhamnaceae

Genus: Ceanothus

Cultivar: Autumnal Blue

Plant type: Evergreen shrub

Flower colour: Blue

Foliage colour: Dark green

Feature: Flowers

Sun exposure: Full sun

Soil: Well-drained/light, Acidic, Chalky/alkaline, Moist

Hardiness: Hardy

Skill level: Experienced

Height: 300cm

Spread: 300cm

Time to take cuttings: May to July

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Caryopteris X Clandonensis Plants

Caryopteris is a getting plant in fall when it is protected with eye-catching red blossoms . It types a pile and has a little bit toothed, grey-green results in that are gold and furry on the undersides. To make sure you get a good show of blossoms on the current year's development, trim it in springtime down to a low structure.

Family: Verbenaceae

Genus: Caryopteris

Species: x clandonensis

Plant type: Deciduous shrub

Flower colour: Blue

Foliage colour: Blue-green

Feature: Flowers, Aromatic foliage, Attractive to wildlife

Sun exposure: Full sun

Soil: Well-drained/light, Clay/heavy, Acidic, Chalky/alkaline

Hardiness: Hardy

Skill level: Experienced

Height: 100cm

Spread: 150cm

Time to take cuttings: June to August

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Carex Elata 'Aurea' Plants

A wonderful small sedge developing lightweight tufts of arching, green results in, each surrounded with white, which give the vegetation a significant glimmer. Plants look excellent expanded towards the front of a wet advantage or among other vegetation, especially lightweight perennials and low herbage, since they accept light colour. However they also look excellent expanded at the advantage of a lake, and are a useful solution to the problem of what to flower as a minor that looks genuine but will develop in regular advantage ground instead of requiring wet bog garden circumstances.

Family: Cyperaceae

Genus: Carex

Species: elata

Cultivar: Aurea

Plant type: Hardy perennial

Foliage colour: Golden

Feature: Attractive seed-heads

Sun exposure: Full sun, Partial shade

Soil: Clay/heavy, Acidic, Moist, Boggy

Hardiness: Hardy

Skill level: Beginner

Height: 70cm

Spread: 50cm

Time to divide plants: April to June

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