Rob's plants home garden plants wildlife seed photos plant sale journal topics fun links guestbook Lobelia siphilitica

 

Common name great blue lobelia Family campanulaceae Life cycle perennial (Z3-9) Flowers blue (summer) Size 18-30" Light sun-part shade Cultural notes moist soil From seed unsure of best procedure detailed seed-starting info below The parent of several common lobelia hybrids, great blue lobelia is worth growing on its own merits. It can't stand dry soil (although it's probably a bit more drought-tolerant than L. cardinalis). Ours is in an unfortunate location, overshadowed by hardy hibiscus by the time it blooms. I should really move it, but don't have many garden areas that offer consistent moisture.

In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: pondside

About my plant portraits

Seed-starting details for this plant

2005. Seed from '04 garden. Baggy 65F with light (2%G, 17d)

Not sure if seed had low viability or if cold treatment is required. Tom Clothier suggests a temperature of 71-75F, so maybe my attempt was at too cool a temperature.

I welcome comments about my web pages; feel free to use the form below to leave feedback about this particular page. For the benefit of other visitors to these pages, I will list any relevant comments you leave, and if appropriate, I will update my page to correct mis-information. Faced with an ever-increasing onslaught of spam, I'm forced to discard any comments including html markups. Please submit your comment as plain text. If you have a comment about the website as a whole, please leave it in my guestbook. If you have a question that needs a personal response, please e-mail me.

home

garden

plants

wildlife

seed

plant sale

topics

guestbook

journal

links

Last modified: September 07, 2004
Contact me