Can anyone identify this blue flower?
When I bought my house, there was this blue flower growing in partial
shade, dry soil... it's behaved like a perennial, but in this part of Texas, a lot of plants that are annuals survive the winter. The flowers have four petals, pale blue, and it grows as sort of a ground hugging vine (but very slow-growing, maybe because of the shade/dry soil, or that it grows beneath an oleandar?) Unfortunately, my well-meaning brother didn't notice it there because it wasn't in flower and raked it up while getting ready for Halloween trick-or-treaters! I don't know if he got the root or not, but if I can identify it, I'd like to plant some more... it's a charming little plant and looks great growing over the landscaping rocks... I've done countless web-searches, browsed most of the Lady Bird Johnson flower database... and come up short... I would be eternally greatful if someone could give me a clue: http://gotmama.com/flower.html Kind regards, GigglesMom |
Can anyone identify this blue flower?
In article
, GigglesMom wrote: http://gotmama.com/flower.html blue plumbago http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/c.../plumbago.html Cea |
Can anyone identify this blue flower?
On 1/1/2008 5:57 AM, Celeste Evans wrote:
In article , GigglesMom wrote: http://gotmama.com/flower.html blue plumbago http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/c.../plumbago.html Cea Try cape plumbago (P. auriculata, sometimes called P. capensis). This may be evergreen or deciduous, depending on how much frost you get in the winter. It's hardy to about 15F. At that temperature, it will show some damage but will recover quickly in the spring. It's actually a shrub, not a perennial. However, if tied to a support, it can grow like a vine. It will do best with at least some sun but will tolerate partial shad. It will take regular watering but is somewhat drought tolerant. There are several varieties, each with a slightly different shade of blue, from almost white to sky blue. Sunset recommends buying plants in bloom so that you can see what color you're getting. -- David E. Ross Climate: California Mediterranean Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19) Gardening pages at http://www.rossde.com/garden/ |
Can anyone identify this blue flower?
On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:03:24 -0800, "David E. Ross"
wrote: On 1/1/2008 5:57 AM, Celeste Evans wrote: In article , GigglesMom wrote: http://gotmama.com/flower.html blue plumbago http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/c.../plumbago.html Cea Try cape plumbago (P. auriculata, sometimes called P. capensis). This may be evergreen or deciduous, depending on how much frost you get in the winter. It's hardy to about 15F. At that temperature, it will show some damage but will recover quickly in the spring. It's actually a shrub, not a perennial. However, if tied to a support, it can grow like a vine. It will do best with at least some sun but will tolerate partial shad. It will take regular watering but is somewhat drought tolerant. There are several varieties, each with a slightly different shade of blue, from almost white to sky blue. Sunset recommends buying plants in bloom so that you can see what color you're getting. The pictures I find of plumbago have five petals, the flowers in the OP's shot had four. Is there some variation, or am I missing something? |
Can anyone identify this blue flower?
On Jan 1, 3:03*pm, "David E. Ross" wrote:
On 1/1/2008 5:57 AM, Celeste Evans wrote: In article , *GigglesMom wrote: http://gotmama.com/flower.html blue plumbago http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/c.../plumbago.html Cea Try cape plumbago (P. auriculata, sometimes called P. capensis). *This may be evergreen or deciduous, depending on how much frost you get in the winter. *It's hardy to about 15F. *At that temperature, it will show some damage but will recover quickly in the spring. It's actually a shrub, not a perennial. *However, if tied to a support, it can grow like a vine. It will do best with at least some sun but will tolerate partial shad. It will take regular watering but is somewhat drought tolerant. There are several varieties, each with a slightly different shade of blue, from almost white to sky blue. *Sunset recommends buying plants in bloom so that you can see what color you're getting. -- David E. Ross Climate: *California Mediterranean Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19) Gardening pages at http://www.rossde.com/garden/ Are there four petal variants of Plumbago? I had looked at that, but discarded it because of the petal difference, thought the foliage is about as close as I've found... Thanks, GigglesMom |
Can anyone identify this blue flower?
You're right. After having no success with my books I tried plumbago on
google images and every close up has five. I tried looking up four blue petals and got no where. The pic supplied still looks like a plumbago though, so maybe it's a freak! Or as the one clear flower is the same one in each pic, maybe we could ask gigling mom to have a look at the other flowers? Maybe carefully unfurl the curled up ones? Do they all have four petals? Charles wrote: The pictures I find of plumbago have five petals, the flowers in the OP's shot had four. Is there some variation, or am I missing something? |
Can anyone identify this blue flower?
On 1/1/2008 3:24 PM, none wrote:
You're right. After having no success with my books I tried plumbago on google images and every close up has five. I tried looking up four blue petals and got no where. The pic supplied still looks like a plumbago though, so maybe it's a freak! Or as the one clear flower is the same one in each pic, maybe we could ask gigling mom to have a look at the other flowers? Maybe carefully unfurl the curled up ones? Do they all have four petals? Charles wrote: The pictures I find of plumbago have five petals, the flowers in the OP's shot had four. Is there some variation, or am I missing something? My reference is Sunset's "Western Garden Book". Unfortunately, the drawing is not sufficiently distinct to tell whether the flowers have 4 or 5 petals. -- David E. Ross Climate: California Mediterranean Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19) Gardening pages at http://www.rossde.com/garden/ |
Can anyone identify this blue flower?
Sigh, I would love to unfurl the flowers, if only there any left to
unfurl... as you see in my original message... my beloved brother has torn it up (in addition to pruning my oleandar to the shape of a big round ball, as though it was a boxwood... yuck!)... I'm hoping there is enough root left there for it to grow back in the spring... I agree, except for the four petals, it does look like (a rather stunted) plumbago in every other way... I'll keep check this thread, and keep looking... I might print out the photos and take them to the extension agent... Thanks to anyone who has made suggestions... GigglesMom On Jan 1, 5:24*pm, none ""jules\"@(none)" wrote: You're right. After having no success with my books I tried plumbago on google images and every close up has five. I tried looking up four blue petals and got no where. The pic supplied still looks like a plumbago though, so maybe it's a freak! Or as the one clear flower is the same one in each pic, maybe we could ask gigling mom to have a look at the other flowers? Maybe carefully unfurl the curled up ones? Do they all have four petals? Charles wrote: The pictures I find of plumbago have five petals, the flowers in the OP's shot had four. *Is there some variation, or am I missing something?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
Can anyone identify this blue flower?
On Dec 31 2007, 8:53*pm, GigglesMom wrote:
When I bought my house, there was this blue flower growing in partial shade, dry soil... it's behaved like a perennial, but in this part of Texas, a lot of plants that are annuals survive the winter. * The flowers have four petals, pale blue, and it grows as sort of a ground hugging vine (but very slow-growing, maybe because of the shade/dry soil, or that it grows beneath an oleandar?) Unfortunately, my well-meaning brother didn't notice it there because it wasn't in flower and raked it up while getting ready for Halloween trick-or-treaters! * I don't know if he got the root or not, but if I can identify it, I'd like to plant some more... it's a charming little plant and looks great growing over the landscaping rocks... I've done countless web-searches, browsed most of the Lady Bird Johnson flower database... and come up short... I would be eternally greatful if someone could give me a clue: http://gotmama.com/flower.html Kind regards, GigglesMom It looks like a phlox to me. although not a Phlox divaricata, maybe Phlox stolonifera -- Creeping Phlox. but these also appear to be 5- petaled. Although not sure it can grow in Texas. A perennial. |
Can anyone identify this blue flower?
On Jan 3, 8:13*am, GHillside wrote:
On Dec 31 2007, wrote: When I bought my house, there was this blue flower growing in partial shade, dry soil... it's behaved like a perennial, but in this part of Texas, a lot of plants that are annuals survive the winter. * The flowers have four petals, pale blue, and it grows as sort of a ground hugging vine (but very slow-growing, maybe because of the shade/dry soil, or that it grows beneath an oleandar?) Unfortunately, my well-meaning brother didn't notice it there because it wasn't in flower and raked it up while getting ready for Halloween trick-or-treaters! * I don't know if he got the root or not, but if I can identify it, I'd like to plant some more... it's a charming little plant and looks great growing over the landscaping rocks... I've done countless web-searches, browsed most of the Lady Bird Johnson flower database... and come up short... Thanks GHillside, But I'm reasonably sure it's not a phlox, even though the flowers are *very* similar... the leaves on my flower were whirled, and phlox has opposite leaves. The leaves really do look very close to a Plumbago, and I'm beginning to think that maybe I just have (sigh, I mean *had*) a mutant plumbago. If it grows back, I'm going to take a cutting to a county extension agent I think... GM I would be eternally greatful if someone could give me a clue: http://gotmama.com/flower.html Kind regards, GigglesMom It looks like a phlox to me. although not a Phlox divaricata, maybe Phlox stolonifera -- Creeping Phlox. *but these also appear to be 5- petaled. *Although not sure it can grow in Texas. * A perennial.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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