Looking good on the sales benches right now….

Brunnera Jack Frost

If you have a shady spot in your spring garden, these chaps wil light it up for you….the attractive silver-marbled foliage only grows to maybe 15 cms / 6 inches high, and is topped for many weeks through spring with lots of delicate forget-me-not blue flowers.

The plant expands slowly year by year to provide lovely ground cover, lasting from spring to maybe mid-summer (by which time the foliage will be looking a bit tired, and can be cut to ground level – if you’re that tidy a gardener!).

Brunnera will do best on reasonably moist, humus rich soil, in part or full shade – think woodland margin, where they’ll enjoy the summer shade of deciduous trees.

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