Ceratostigma willmottianum 25/11 Restock which is the real gift

which is the real gift

and that upbringing shows

glossy evergreen foliage

an old grower's trick keeps the crown safe: after the frost kills the stems

throwing pink flowers when the garden most needs them and drawing the first bees

Ceratostigma willmottianum 25/11 Restock which is the real giftCeratostigma willmottianum, the Chinese plumbago, is a small deciduous subshrub grown for one of the truest blues in the garden. From midsummer into autumn the wiry, bristly leaved stems carry clusters of intense cobalt blue flowers, each a slim reddish purple tube opening to five pale blue lobes, and as the season cools the foliage turns a rich red and bronze, so that blue flower and crimson leaf often share the plant at once. The species hails from