Re: Lindelofia

In a message dated 3/7/02 6:11:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, llmen@wi.rr.com 
writes:

<< Is anyone growing any of the Lindelofia species (Boraginaceae)?   I 
 have seen L. longiflora offered by some UK nurseries, but have seen 
 no photos of L. anchusoides, seeds of which I purchased from J.L. 
 Hudson last year.  Hoping the seedlings make it through our winter 
 here, as it is suggested they are a bit hardier than L. longiflora. 
 BTW, Hortus III claims that L. anchusoides = Adelocaryum anchusoid >>

I have not grown this plant but think it must be around as it is 
blue-blue-blue and that is a color that attracts gardeners.

The Rix/Phillips Perennials,  Volume 1, page 173 has a photo.  They are 
saying minus 20 Celsius which would be around minus 5 F.  Native of the 
Himalayas, Pakistan, Nepal, Kashmir.

The RP photo is of longiflora and the description of anchusoides is similar 
but no photo.  Says full sun.

I looks as though you might want to crowd a bunch of seedlings into a patch 
of blue.  They don't give a height, usually do - flowers 1.5 cm. in clusters. 
 Don, this is a high altitude plant.  Looks, a guess, at about 30 cm. high.

I have a bergenia ciliata, pet plant so sorry if I have talked about it 
before, and it is a Kashmir plant with the same hardiness description.  It 
does not do well outdoors here so I grow it as a greenhouse plant.  You can 
never tell, might be OK.  The photo shows it there in the high peaks.

BTW, the Rix/Phillips on annuals in soft cover is finally being shipped by 
Amazon UK.  It is a lovely big book with all kinds of things to learn about 
the native haunts of our annuals.  There is also a great big, around 700 pp. 
new annual guide by Dr. Armitage and a third one arriving soon by Wayne 
Winterrowd.  Annuals are the coming thing for gardeners.  We must have 
dwelled too long on perennnials or used up the world's supply of new plants 
to love in the perennial class.

Claire Peplowski
NYZ z4

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