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[SG] Ceratostigma plumbaginoides

Hello Harry,
        I read with interest your description of the Leadwort/ Plumbago. I have
had that one as a ground cover over tulips in a bed beneath a double
flowering cherry for some years now. It sat there for a few years until I
mulched the bed. Then, it took off and filled the bed in no time with the
mulched to scoot around under. While I am located on the north side of a
hill, the area is in what would be described as full sun. The setting sun
is full upon the bed.
        You are an experienced gardener, so.... do I understand you correctly in
the below message? You grow the above plant in some degree of shade? How
does it perform for you and how much shade? I would love to transfer some
of this to a location up in the garden in shade with some smaller
trees/shrubs. Would you please tell more about your use of this lovely
plant? Any other locations and combinations?
        Gene Bush     Southern Indiana    Zone 6a     Munchkin Nursery
          around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com     http://www.munchkinnursery.com

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snip here........
> has beautiful royal blue flowers (without purple tinges) July to frost,
and
> which is quite drouth-resistant.  It's also known as plumbago, but is not
> to be confused with the tropical powder-blue-flowered vine, Plumbago
> capensis.  Give it a whirl.  Buy a pot now (it should be in bloom at your
> nursery), plant it immediately, mark its place well, and watch it appear
> in mid-to-late June next year.  Brookside Gardens, in Wheaton, Maryland,
> has used it for many years as a summer groundcover for the Miniature
> Spring Bulbs Garden, under a shady canopy of Thundercloud plums.  For
> those who live in the Potomac Valley, and who can visit Brookside, the
> Miniature Spring Bulbs Garden is between the upper of the two Perennial
> Gardens, and the Fragrance Garden.
>
> Leadwort is easily divided after the first year.  There are various
> species and cultivars, but I have grown only the one mentioned above.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Harry
>
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