Cape Plumbago Leaves

Showy light blue flowers grow in large 3 4 in. This generous garden perennial blooms.

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Cape plumbago leaves

Care planting sowing pruning. Foliage is comprised of thin medium green leaves 2 in. It is a nectar source for many butterflies including the pipevine swallwtail battus philenor eastern.

Flowering all spring summer and early autumn it is cut down by frost but will regrow the following spring. The cape plumbago is a large vining evergreen shrub with a mounding habit and easily growing 6 8 ft. It is drought tolerant needing little maintenance.

Plumbago has slender semi woody stems that are typically multi branched or clumping and covered with alternate 1 5 to 2 inch oblong leaves that are yellowish green in color when young and darken to medium green when mature. Plumbago or cape leadwort is a vine that is much appreciated for its flowers and foliage. Can be used as a hedge or shrub or espaliered against a wall and will even climb through other plants so it makes the perfect gap filler.

Tall spreading 8 12 ft. A scrambling semi climber or shrub popular as a garden ornamental to 2m tall often used as a hedge specimen. It is native to south africa and knowing this provides the first clue to how to grow a plumbago along with where to grow one.

The blue or white flowers are tubular with 5 petals or lobes have glandular sticky hairs and are held in short spikes or. Bearing sprays of beautiful pale blue flowers not unlike phlox plumbago auriculata also know as cape leadwort is a popular garden plant that grows best in usda zones 8b 11. Clusters for many months from early spring through fall.

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