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Pulmonaria officinalis |
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| Common name |
lungwort |
| Family |
boraginaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial |
| Flowers |
blue and pink (early spring) |
| Size |
12" |
| Light |
part shade |
| Cultural notes |
ordinary garden soil |
From seed  |
self-seeds in our garden; seed short-lived
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We love the pink and blue flowers all on the same plant - it brightens up our shade garden in early spring, long before anything else gets into gear in that coolest part of our garden. The white-speckled foliage is nice too, although it can get a little ratty-looking by the end of summer.
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: shade garden About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| helen johnston | May 20, 2008 | please do you know where i can get some seeds for this plant, i have tried the seed merchants
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Helen
Pulmonaria seed is short-viable, probably why seed merchants don't carry it. Better to buy a plant - they self-seed readily. |
| Rebekah Wade | Jul 25, 2009 | This is a breathtakingly beautiful web site, thanks to your truly marvelous eye (and skill) as a photographer. I wish, though, that you would use a little icon or something to indicate whether plants are resistant to deer. I'm particularly curious at the moment about Syneilesis palmata plants. My garden has become a smorgasboard for deer, and I try not to plant anything else to encourage them. I am so delighted to have stumbled upon your site.
I try to limit the information I collect for plants to things relevant to my garden - including hardiness zones, sun exposure, etc. But deer have yet to find our garden (knock on wood), so I can't speak from experience about relative deer resistance of plants. |
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