Featured Plant - Symphyandra

FEATURED PERENNIAL Symphyandra subcaerulea This Campanula relative you probably haven’t metwith before. I can’t say that I have seen it growinmg anywhere else – it’s a quietly hard-working plant that engages with me and more each year. I have it growing in a rather shady, damp spot beneath a Musk Rose called ‘Prosperity’. Its china blue cups combine very well with the arching boughs of the Rose and the best part is, it doesn’t begin blooming until August and then continues right up to the frosts. A great value plant for that time of year when it can be difficult finding new plants to fill the floral void. It also has heart shaped deeply veined leaves. It’s stems are quite lax, but not in an untidy way – it also billows over the neighbouring path. Ultimate height only about 40cm’s and seems entirely hardy. Definitely a plant to look up.