Flower Color: Blue
Type: Short lived perennial, best treated as re-seeding biennial.
Height: 48" to 60"
Light: Full Sun, or afternoon shade
Zone: 4-8
Water: Average
Soil: Average to Rich
Maintenance: Cut back unsightly flower stalks when finished blooming.
Other info: This plant has very course heavy foliage. But I find my eye is so drawn to the beautiful azure blue flowers that I don't pay much attention to the foliage until after the bloom season. I used the flowers in short-flowered cut flower arrangements combined with yellow agyranthemum and they were gorgeous. The plants bloomed profusely for two weeks and stood straight and tall, but after that they began flopping over. So I would suggest caging the plants with tomato cages at the beginning of the season.
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Anchusa azurea
'Dropmore Strain'
Another Anchusa azurea photo
For future reference, please note that these plants are generally only available for shipping until the second or third week in May. Potted plants quickly send up bloom stalks in May and generally lose all their foliage as the plants begin to bloom. Therefore you would need to place an order early enough for early May shipping. Otherwise, if you come to this page in the second or third week in May or later, they may not be available for shipping, even though the link is still open. (It could be because I am-was just too busy to update the page, or forgot about it until someone decided to place an order.
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