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Veronica austriaca |
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| Common name |
Hungarian speedwell |
| Family |
scrophulariaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial |
| Flowers |
blue-purple |
| Size |
1 ft |
| Light |
sun |
Makes a nice mound of glossy foliage, covered with blue flowers in late spring. After that, it tends to get a bit sprawly (you can see it's already starting to do that in the photo at right), so we give it a good haircut, and it's good for the rest of the season. Last year, as an experiment, I gave the plant the haircut before it bloomed, hoping for flowers on a more compact plant - but I lost the blooms altogether.
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| | This year, again it splayed open after blooming |
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| So I gave it a mid-June haircut
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We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston. About my plant portraits
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- Seed for var. teucrium from HPS/MAG '10/'11 exchange. Baggy 70F with light (1G from chaffy mix, 16d)
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May 14, 2011
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