Survived the drought and spreading well

SMT

East Midlands

I use this as ground cover - given the right conditions it can spread rather rapidly. It was planted out as a minute young plant about a year ago and after producing several very attractive pale blue flowers in May, it is now considerably more widespread. The variegated foliage is most attractive, with strong shades of Burgundy red mixed in.

Kate the amateur

Yorkshire

I bought 6 plugs three years ago and planted them in a lightly shaded area with excellent humus rich loamy soil, none appeared to thrive and all turned in to soup pretty quickly. Crocus refunded the purchase. I bought 6 more plants in February as I wanted to persevere as they would be ideal to fill gaps in the garden. I planted three in the same place I had tried before and three in full sun ( a bit of a joke in Aberdeen ;-), within a month the ones planted in the shade had turned a nasty off green colour and were clearly sick, the three planted in full sun have doubled in size and are flowering. I dug up the three sick plants and transplanted them in to full sun, still not 100% but they are recovering their colour slowly are growing and are starting to flower..... I would say a good buy consider carefully where you plan to plant them. I realise full sun is a different proposition in South Devon to North East Scotland.

dave

aberdeen

Very good for ground cover in a shady area. Spreads quickly.

Anya

Lewes, East Sussex