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Flowers appear before new leaves start to grow and are violet, tubular, borne in cymes.
Leaves are light to mid green spotted with white and are ovate. Leaves of some species are evergreen throughout the year.
These are excellent ground cover plants and will establish quickly giving an expanse of brilliant flowers and attractive foilage.
Essential info
Genus: Pulmonaria
Family: Boraginaceae
Species: P. officinalis
Common Names: Common lugwort, lugwort.
Classification: Perennial.
Height: 25cm (10inches).
Flowering: Late winter and early spring.
These gardening plants are a must have for any gardener who wants late winter and early spring flowering borders and beds or wants to create a woodland garden.
Where: Ideal for late winter and early spring flowering borders and beds.
Pulmonaria are ideal ground cover plants.
They are excellent for woodland gardens and establish quickly under the shade of trees and shrubs.
Grow them in patio pots and tubs, window boxes and troughs, they will brighten up the most dull late winter and early spring days. Just remember they prefer to be in the shade.
Bees find pulmonaria irresistible.
Site: Grow them in full shade.
They will also do well in partial shade.
Soil: Any rich, moist but free draining soil.
Propagation Methods: By seed in spring.
Best germination temperature: 70 deg F.
Time from sowing to germiantion: 12 weeks onwards.
Can be slow to germinate, so be patient!
By division in autumn.
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