Garden Design Includes Brunnera Pulmonaria

This plant is also grown for its striking heart shape green foliage that when silvered is almost iridescent in the right light.

Garden design includes brunnera pulmonaria. These plants include pulmonaria brunnera bergenia euphorbia and hellebores. In our trials pulmonaria silver bouquet makes a scrumptious 6 tall x 2 wide deer resistant clump of 1 long shiny silver foliage lovely enough to grow even without flowers. Makes a great groundcover in the shade specimen plant or as a container plant wh.

Apr 6 2020 try in container too cut flowers with pulmonaria with ice dance sedge with japanese painted fern or ghost fern. Jan 14 2013 in spring a cloud of tiny blue flowers hovers above brunnera s mound of fuzzy heart shape leaves. Part sun shade zones 3 8.

For this purpose you can t go wrong with white flowers. Sprays of pure blue flowers in mid to late spring add to the show. Lonicera baggesson s gold in back center viburnum carlesii at the top left cut leaf shapes of acanthus spinosus in middle behind sculpture bold silver leaves of brunnera sea heart in center long silver spotted leaves of pulmonaria longifolia var cevennesis in front of sculpture black accents of ophiopogon planiscapus nigrescens along path shiny foliage of helleborus x hybridus sally tucked in next to acanthus chartreuse green flowers of primula green lace syn.

Low growing heartleaf brunnera boasts clouds of sky blue flowers from early to midspring that look just like forget me nots hence the nickname false forget me not. Most of the photos here show a woodland garden under large oak trees with spring flowering plants. Lungwort pulmonaria silver bouquet and silver shimmers zones 3 8.

It is sometimes called siberian bugloss. Variegated forms need more shade. Dress it up in whitethe design of a cocktail hour garden usually includes plants that are more noticeable at night and reflect the moonlight.

In full sun they re likely to scorch. See more ideas about blue. Reliable plants for shadier areas of the garden these low growing perennials form spreading clumps and often have attractively marked foliage.