Catalog Description
Attractive compact, mounding shrub with fragrant powder blue blooms. Long blooming season. Creates a wonderful border for perennial beds, or use along walks and entryways. Deciduous. Full sun. Moderate grower to 2˝ feet tall, 2 feet wide. Cutting grown. |
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Average Landscape Size
Moderate grower to 2
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ft. tall, 2 ft. wide. |
Key Plant Benefits
Attractive compact, mounding grower with fragrant powder blue blooms. Long blooming season. Creates a wonderful border for perennial beds, or use along walks and entryways. Deciduous. |
Care Instructions
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. For a formal appearance, shear annually after flowering. |
Growth Conditions
| Growth Rate |
 Moderate Growing |
| Growth Habit |
| Mounding |
| Heat Zones |
High:
| 9 (>120 to 150 days) |
| Low: | 1 (< 1 days) |
| Cold Hardiness |
| High: | 9 (20 to 30 F) (see map) |
| Low: | 5 (-20 to -10 F) |
| Water Requirements |
| Once established needs only occasional water. |
| Sun Exposure |
| Full sun |
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Flowering
Flower or Bloom description:
Clusters of small flowers top long stems
| Flower Color |
| Blue |
| Flowering Time/Season |
| Desired for late summer blooms. |
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Propagation
| Propagation Method |
1
| Cutting grown |
| Best time to Prune |
| Spring |
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Attributes
Attracts Butterflies
Border Plant
Compact Habit
Drought Tolerant
Fall Flowering
Fragrant
Summer Flowering |
Foliage
Dense, slightly toothed
| Foliage Shape | Ovate |
| Normal foliage color | Green |
| Underside foliage | Green |
| Juvenile foliage | Green |
| Mature foliage | Green |
| New foliage | Green |
| Spring foliage | Green |
| Summer foliage | Green |
| Fall foliage | Green |
| Winter foliage | No Value |
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