Perfect for the front of the border rock gardens used as a ground cover or in tubs and containers.
Veronica blue carpet plant.
This plant will require occasional maintenance and upkeep and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season.
Their blossoms provide rich blue purple pink or white shades of long lasting color.
Excellent compact selection forms a low bushy mound of dark green leaves bearing short spikes of bright violet blue flowers in late spring or early summer.
Dead to encourage new blooms in fall.
It forms a low bushy mound or tuft of dark green leaves bearing short spikes of bright violet blue flowers in early summer for several weeks.
Planted between paving bricks or flagstone they will fill in the cracks with attractive flowers and foliage.
Sizes and forms range from creeping groundcovers a few inches high to upright flower spikes reaching several feet tall.
Veronica austriaca austrian speedwell is a compact mound forming perennial of upright to sprawling habit boasting bright blue flowers arising in elongated axillary racemes from late spring to early summer.
Plant in rock gardens along walkways and as a facer plant for taller perennials.
Use them to form a green carpet beneath dwarf conifers and as a filler creeping over rocks and between other taller plants.
Veronica blue reflection growing among flagstones.
Veronica spicata blue carpet has tall clusters of violet blue flowers displayed above a low mound of lance shaped foliage.
Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage.
The leaves are ovate to oblong and more or less toothed.
Veronica spicata blue carpet.
Description this is an excellent compact strain of spike speedwell.
Flowering is best with limited water and full sun.
Grow spike speedwell in any well drained soil with regular water.
Veronica spicata blue carpet.
Speedwell are carefree and easy to grow perennials that prefer well drained soil with full to part sun butterflies and hummingbirds will make frequent appearances.
It forms a low bushy mound or tuft of dark green leaves bearing short spikes of bright violet blue flowers in early summer for several weeks.
Blue carpet speedwell is a dense herbaceous perennial with an upright spreading habit of growth.
When in flower this plant is a sea of blue.
Versatile in the garden at home as an edging plant in the rock garden or in tubs and containers.
Versatile in the garden at home as an edging plant in the rock garden or in tubs and containers.