Gentiana 'Lucerna'
Habitat: full sun to partial shade
Flowering: autumn
Height: 10 cm
Width: 30 cm
Soil: moist, acidic
Habitat: full sun to partial shade
Flowering: autumn
Height: 10 cm
Width: 30 cm
Soil: moist, acidic
The autumn-flowering gentians are wonderful plants, bringing colour - and very intense colour at that - to the garden at a time when there is not a great deal flowering. Most have trailing stems, each terminated with a large, trumpet shaped flower. They can be split in April, and a good patch can soon be established. Most dislike alkaline soil.
Gentiana 'Lucerna' is a superb, vigorous hybrid with abundant, bright blue, flared trumpet flowers, streaked white down the throat. Deep green trailing foliage makes this a particularly valuable and striking gentian for ground cover.
9 cm pot £3.50
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