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Caryopteris incana

I've got four Caryopteris Chanodensis and they are beautiful in late summer when everything else starts to get brown and bedraggled. Three of these are from a local nursery and were already two years old. They are in an eastern exposure where they get sun until rounghly noon. The fourth was purchased from Spring Hill and took two years to amount to anything. However, it is exposed to the sun virtually all day and has a deeper blue color and a more symmetrical shape than the other three. They do, indeed, seem to thrive in dry conditions. I reccomend them highly -- very easy to care for.

MY plant DID grow "TRUE" from SEED. I collected them from MY Plants before I moved and put them in the ground of my new home. That same year I had Caryopteris Growing Just like the original plant I had left behind. I have NEVER Purchased one since I moved here and my is growing GREAT from SEEDS... Smells heavenly and looks Just like the one I left behind!

This plant has unusual blue flowers and I have found it to be quite drought tolerant, even in LARGE tubs. pokerboy.

Parent to the more widely grown Caryopteris x clandonensis, a blue flowering shrub for zones 6 and warmer. In colder climates, it may be grown as an herbaceous perennial. Blue flowers attract bumblees and provide intense blue color late in the season.

A weeping form is available.