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Category: Flowering Plants: Perennials for Shade: Late Season: Medium (18" - 36")
Status: Growing from Seed
Initial Notes:
Height: 24-36"
Spacing: 24"
Light: Partial shade
Hardiness: Zones 3-9
Source: from trade
Pronunciation: low-Bee-lee-uh sih-fih-LIH-tih-kuh
Native to North America, produces spikes of blue flowers in late summer. The plant grows well in moist to wet soils and so is useful near water. The plant may be short-lived but will tend to reseed.
Entries and Updates
Mar 8, 2001
Sowed in sterile medium.
Mar 24, 2001
Germinated; moved under lights. Will pot up when true leaves develop.
May 23, 2001
Planted in South corner of the back of the large pond, next to the Dicentra spectabilis tuber I planted a few days ago.
May 25, 2001
Jun 3, 2001
Fertilized with liquid fertilizer.
Sep 1, 2001
Bloomed! Plant stayed fairly small - about 15" high, but it bloomed this first year.