Shrubs - Cape Plumbago Blue

Free form, sprawling plants with bright sky blue blooms. Mounding or sprawling plants with long arching wiry herbaceous green stems. Bright green soft elliptic leaves do not cover stems completely, giving them an open, cloud-like appearance. Long bright sky blue tubular flowers form in clusters at the ends of all the branches. Blooms from spring to summer and again in fall to winter while temperatures are warm. Plants are susceptible to frosts, but quickly recover after cutting back. Cape plumbago are more rugged than their initial appearance suggests. They make good, colorful informal foundation shrubs and they work well cascading down slopes, banks, or raised beds. In low deserts, morning sun with afternoon shade is best, and regular irrigation.

Scientific name:  Plumbago auriculata

Mature size:  up to 6 ft. high x 5-10 ft. wide

Sun:  Part to full sun