"Blue Plumbago"- Caught my eye today, dunno - I'm on this blue kick (should I psychoanalyze that?) but I saw the key phrase "quick to spread" Scary!
Thoughts?
Thanks

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Mary - this plant can/does spread into grass and become uncontrollable. A good friend of mine has it in hers from the previous owners and it's taking over. The interesting thing of it is that there is one area that is a very large circle - must be a fairy ring! It's just the outline of a circle, not filled in, in the center. It returns every year. I'm going to try and take a picture, but it's a large area.

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Lynne's knitting journal
"I'm spayed, declawed, and housebound - how's YOUR day going???"

I have some I love it! It is truly beautiful color and formation. My son wanted this one (blue for him) We put it in the front flower bed and it has done fine so far.

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Hey Rayel,

That is one huge amount of rain. Wish I could have borrowed some of it this summer. It's been so very dry.

tkhooper - I exagerated, the rain just feels constant & relatively high precipitation is a feature of this neck of the woods. It tends to be a fairly light drizzle rather than cloudbursts. Sometimes you'd hardly notice it. I was even out in the rain today digging my garden (repairing a raised border). Its been raining the past 2-3 days pretty much all the time yet 1-2 inches down & the soil is bone dry (it is a raised bed, after all).

weezie - Mmmm. It would look good planted against an old dry-stone wall I have in a corner of my garden....

We rarely get deep freezes in Cornwall (we had a couple of days at -6C/21F last winter). The biggest problems are relatively wet conditions coupled with cool temperatures (which can cause rot & tends to kill off the more sensitive plants) & wind coming in off the Atlantic which can rock plants & stop root development.

I'm feeling very tempted to plant it out... I'm sure it won't go haywire & spread everywhere. Heck, even if it does the neighbours would thank me for introducing a pretty flowering plant to combat the ivy... Wouldn't they?

Mine is sorta tall too,
don't know whether it's cause I
have abused it and have some taller
plants all the way around it..
dunno????
But it's not like a short to the
ground type of ground cover,
at least for me..

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Weezie

Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
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Underplanting?! Are we talking about Plumbago capensis here? This is the plant I have in a pot. If we are then this opens up a completely new chapter in my garden. I love the blue of these flowers - very delicate & pretty - & I'd like to see more of it clambering around other shrubs which have shorter flowering seasons.

Thanx Lynne, I missed that link. I thought it was all too good to be true. While we get better winter temps than New York they are nothing like Florida. Like you, I'll be keeping mine in a pot & moving it under cover soon.