"Totty" wrote in message
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I have grown this for the first time this year, from seed that was a
freeby with Gardens Monthly. It seems to like my hot, dry conditions,
and though drooping slightly at the end of the day, perks up overnight
without being watered more than once a week. Does anyone know at what
stage I will see the promised "blueing" of the vegetation and flowers?
At the moment the leaves and bracts are glaucus, but pale, green, and
the flowers are a pale salmony pink. Is the darkening dependent on age
or conditions?

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Jo
Alicante


Mine in Yorkshire are only just starting to grow properly. They seem to go
blue early august and last until the first frosts.
However, in my sisters garden a few miles away they flower and blue by mid
June--set seed and then self seed around the garden producing quite stout
plants that overwinter to form excellent plants,so it's worth treating them
as a short lived perennial