Gentiana paradoxa x septemfida

Gentianaceae

Gentiana paradoxa x septemfida

Habitat: sunny places Flowering: mid to late summer Height: 15 cm Width: 25 cm Soil: with humus and grit

These gentians flower from mid to late summer, most of them giving gentian colour after the alpine spring gentians, and before the asiatic autumn varieties. They have some upright and some trailing stems, with terminal clusters of flowers, deep blue or purplish blue in most species. Easy and very rewarding.

Gentiana paradoxa x septemfida is often produced in cultivation from Gentiana paradoxa, if G. septemfida is growing nearby. It looks more like septemfida, with procumbent stems lined with broad leaves (not narrow, as in paradoxa), and with good clusters of rich blue trumpet flowers at the ends of the stems. It is reliable and long-lived in our garden.
9 cm pot £4.00

Gentiana 'Suendermanii' is believed to be a hybrid of Gentiana septemfida, more upright in growth and flowering somewhat later. By now plants are likely to be back-crossed with Gentiana septemfida, but they seem to be rather more compact and less likely to sprawl. And they are still brilliant blue.