From High Country Gardens in Spring 2018.
More added from 2019 to 2021
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| Eventually I'll have a mounded carpet like this |
Late to leaf out in spring!
The foliage in summer is fresh looking and green. They bloom in July with bright blue fuzzy flowers, then the leaves turn absolutely scarlet in fall.
I've been trying to get them to make a big dense sweep along the edge of the rock swale bordering the dining room window garden, and even planted more across the swale into the gravel.
This is going to take years to get a real mounding patch of them. They are slow to settle in.
Experiences:
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| June 12, 2021 - foliage looked good |
They do need a lot of water especially to get started. I had several that held on but did not thrive in very dry spots, but where I have watered a lot, they fill in.
In 2021 for the first time these started to look good. In spring 2021 the foliage was lush and green and the patch had spread out a bit.
Not completely where I had wanted it, but it spreads.
In early July the flowers appear, still sparse at this point on individual clumps.
Fall color surprised me -- they really do turn bright red.
They stayed bright red all through sub freezing night temperatures in late October and November.
With lots of watering, keeping these as moist as possible, they are doing well.
With lots of watering, keeping these as moist as possible, they are doing well.
By 2023, after much disturbance for irrigation lines and moving around all over, some of them have spread and formed a bigger patch and bloomed in late summer. Fall color is bright red but gets smothered by the cottonwood tree's fallen leaves.
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| 2023 - blooming in September, red foliage in early November |