Description
Name: plumbago
Family: Plumbaginaceae Ceratostigma plumbaginoides
Mature Height: 8-12 inches
Mature Spread: 12-18 inches
Bloom Time: July to September
Bloom Color: Deep blue
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Growth Rate: Medium – Fast
Water: Medium (do not over water)
Maintenance: Low Use: Ground Cover, excellent ground cover for sunny to partly shaded areas in the landscape
Soil: average well-drained
Fall Color: Bronze-red in autumn
Tolerate: Erosion, Clay Soil
Hardy Zone: 5 to 9
Ted Conner (verified owner) –
Chad Funk (verified owner) –
Excellent all around
Leslie Taylor (verified owner) –
Just bought 6 more after planting 6 last year. These starter plants grew quickly and were blooming within a month of planting. In full sun in zone 8, these were some of the best blooms that started in spring an bloomed constantly until first freeze in October. Even throughout the brutal hot Texas summer! They froze back to the ground over winter, and this spring, they’ve all come back and even multiplied. Very happy with this continuously blooming true blue ground cover!