Veronica umbrosa Georgia Blue floods the borders of the rockery with blue gentian flowers.
This Veronica forms a true carpet of flowers in April.
This small Veronica with blue gentian flowers blooms for about a month, from mid-March to mid-April depending on the year. Normally it is creeping, but as here, when planted at the foot of a small shrub (Betula nana) it tends to climb. Apart from being a hardy, creeping and extremely floriferous perennial, the appeal lies in its ease of cultivation. Here, it grows in sun in a rockery, but in the same rockery it is planted in dry shade, in cool partial shade, and it grows well in any of these situations.
For spectacular flowering it, however, requires plenty of light. Plants grown in shade flower little, but for a long time, the flowers come one after another until autumn, whereas those in the sun flower abundantly for much of spring and reflower sometimes timidly in autumn.
It is very beautiful when grown in isolation, as it spills down a low wall or a slope. In pairing it works very well with shrub roses and hardy geraniums, but it is with Narcissus 'Toto' (small-growing Narcissus) with cream-coloured flowers that its blue flowers stand out best.
A white 'eye' spots the Veronica flower.
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