![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a between cobalt blue and sailor blue when in bloom. It seems to growin early spring and late fall. Mine in zone 4b sandy alkaline soil but with regular irrigation in year two is spreading rapidly. The rest of the growing season, they settle into attractive groundcovers that seem to handle cold, heat, humidity, rain, and drought equally well. The plants cover themselves with medium to deep blue-violet flowers from late April into mid-May. This selection seems to have inherited the best traits from both parents: it's denser and faster spreading than either parent, with small oaklike leaves that are medium green with a faint silvery-blue cast from its slight pubescence. This hybrid prostrate speedwell was selected from a cross made at the Chicago Botanic Garden in 2007 between Veronica armena and Veronica pectinata ‘Rosea’, two already popular prostrate speedwells. As for Tidal Pool, looks like patience is a virtue.įrom the Breeder at Chicago Botanic Garden. Of course, if I remember correctly, Goldwell doesn't bloom as long as Tidal Pool, but it has bright yellow and green variagated leaves and will look great when not in bloom, also. Tidal Pool has been planted for two months now and has shown itself to seem to stay healthy, but no or minimal growth so far. I decided to place them in this much more visible area and move Tidal Pool a bit later when the rains let up some to an area that it can take it's time showing me what it's made of and won't be an eyesore for this year. They are absolutely flourishing, growing like crazy! They've only been in the ground for a month, but have doubled and are blooming like mad. Tidal Pool is the tiny little tuft of nothing you see to the right of the nice flourishing other two plants! The other two, funny enough, are Veronica Goldwell. Please forgive me for not being more focused on the subject in the pic. I took a pic of something else last week, but I noticed my Tidal Pool was in the edge of the frame, so I zoomed in on it to borrow the image for this post (pouring down rain here for two days, so no way to grab a fresh pic!) It will do for these purposes. Seems like you've got to put at least one season in before you see any results out of this one. Tidal Pool definitely does seem like it's not a first year plant, that's for sure. ![]()
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