Veronica Blue Carpet Plant

Their blossoms provide rich blue purple pink or white shades of long lasting color.

Veronica blue carpet plant.

Excellent compact selection forms a low bushy mound of dark green leaves bearing short spikes of bright violet blue flowers in late spring or early summer. Veronica speedwell plants veronica are neat tidy plants that are beautiful in or out of flower. Veronica spicata blue carpet. Flowering is best with limited water and full sun.

Perfect for the front of the border rock gardens used as a ground cover or in tubs and containers. Plant in rock gardens along walkways and as a facer plant for taller perennials. The leaves are ovate to oblong and more or less toothed. Blue carpet speedwell is a dense herbaceous perennial with an upright spreading habit of growth.

This plant will require occasional maintenance and upkeep and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. Speedwell are carefree and easy to grow perennials that prefer well drained soil with full to part sun butterflies and hummingbirds will make frequent appearances. Dead to encourage new blooms in fall. It forms a low bushy mound or tuft of dark green leaves bearing short spikes of bright violet blue flowers in early summer for several weeks.

Description this is an excellent compact strain of spike speedwell. Blauteppich this is an excellent compact strain of spike speedwell. Veronica blue reflection growing among flagstones. Veronica spicata blue carpet.

Use them to form a green carpet beneath dwarf conifers and as a filler creeping over rocks and between other taller plants. Planted between paving bricks or flagstone they will fill in the cracks with attractive flowers and foliage. Grow spike speedwell in any well drained soil with regular water. When in flower this plant is a sea of blue.

Veronica spicata blue carpet has tall clusters of violet blue flowers displayed above a low mound of lance shaped foliage. Sizes and forms range from creeping groundcovers a few inches high to upright flower spikes reaching several feet tall. Veronica austriaca austrian speedwell is a compact mound forming perennial of upright to sprawling habit boasting bright blue flowers arising in elongated axillary racemes from late spring to early summer. Speedwell veronica is a tough ornamental that is tolerant of different soils and watering needs with varieties that are hardy in most regions.

Versatile in the garden at home as an edging plant in the rock garden or in tubs and containers.