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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.

This year, again it splayed open after blooming

So I gave it a mid-June haircut

In our garden, this plant grows in the following areas: side garden, driveway bed

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