From: kupstas@cs.unc.edu (Eileen Kupstas)
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: Re: Garden Blues-The colour of...
Date: 8 Apr 1995 10:39:13 -0400

A blue annual that I am trying this year is Wahlenbergia. (Seeds
available from Thompson and Morgan; I've not seen it anywhere else).
It is supposed to have light blue flowers up to 1 inch across. My
plants are only 6 weeks old, so no bloom yet. It has fuzzy 1 inch
leaves, a trailing habit (though the description says about 14 inches
high..) I'm combining it with various tall campanulas in blue and white,
sort of to fill in until the campanulas take over.

Another experiment this year is Commelina dianthifolia. (Seeds from
Thompson and Morgan; Van Bourgidien (SP?) offers Commelina tuberosa
as tubers -- the pictures of these two look very similar.) It is a
"grassy" looking plant with smallish (up to about 1/2 inch) intense
blue flowers. I started it in January from seed and have now seen a
few blooms. It is supposed to "cover itself in blooms all summer" (or
some such), says the catalog... The blue is beautiful.. Height
supposed to be about 12 inches or so, but mine are still quite small.
This is a perenniel that is hardy to some middling zone (6?); other
wise the tubers can be dug and stored.

Does anyone have experience with these? Both were very easy to start
from seed, but I can't tell you much about habits and the
truth-in-advertising of the performance claims, yet.

Eileen
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Eileen Kupstas                            kupstas@cs.unc.edu
Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill    Dept. of Computer Science
Sometimes I despair of ever meeting my own standards. -- de Vries

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