• Eventual Height: 1m
  • Eventual Spread: 0.6m
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Anchusa azurea 'Loddon Royalist'

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size: 2 litre pot   available to order from spring 2012    

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  • Position: full sun
  • Soil: moist, fertile, well-drained
  • Rate of growth: vigourous
  • Flowering period: June
  • Hardiness:fully hardy

    Sturdy stems of deep blue summer flowers, turning blue-purple with age, appear in early summer above rosettes of mid-green leaves. This large blue alkanet makes a striking and long-lasting statement in a sunny border and does not need staking. The flowers are attractive to bees, too.

  • Garden care: Anchusas dont like wet soil. Deadhead after flowering to encourage a second flush of flowers and in early autumn cut the stems back down to the ground.

    • Eventual Height: 1m
    • Eventual Spread: 0.6m
    Anchusa azurea 'Loddon Royalist' - alkanet Intense blue flowers in early summer