Plumbago - Escape Blue

Anyone tried growing this from seed (or any other way)?

I have a few young plants from seed that looking quite healthy, but wondered if they would flower in the first year.

 

Peter , I did not even know what Plumbago was. So I Googled it , the first result was.........



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Anyone tried growing this from seed (or any other way)? I have a few young plants from seed that looking quite healthy, but wondered if they would.

You only put this on just over 8 hours ago ! The mighty Google spiders never cease to amaze me
By the way Plumbago Blue looks great

 

Hi Harry - that's amazing and rather frightening. I have just checked it out. If they, snoopers in general, can find that in 8 hours how much more can they find out about you in 8 weeks?

 

Hello Peter

I have Plumbago auriculata/capensis 'Royal Cape', the intensely blue one. We planted it in the ground in the Autumn where it gets the morning sun and is then in filtered shade but it hasn't bloomed yet, possibly because of that.

I have never heard of 'Escape Blue' and would love one of the red ones (P indica or P rosea) although I have never seen one. Yours should bloom the first year as they bloom on current year's growth like Bougainvillea.

Here is a good link ... http://www.floridata.com/ref/p/plumbago.cfm

I look forward to seeing what colour blue you have.

 

My apologies - I am confusing everyone including myself. Its name should be 'Escapade Blue'. When I Google that I get a lot more hits. :D

Thanks Victoria - thats encouraging to hear that it should bloom this year. That's a nice link - and I had a good read. 'Escapade Blue' is an F1 hybrid seed variety that is supposed to have a darker colour than other seed grown Plumbagos.

Googling earlier, I read that P. indica (or rosea) doesn't set seed, which is a shame. Because having got the blue one on its way - I already was thinking about a red one. I gather there is a white one too - but that doesn't appeal as much as blue or red.

 

I have a Plumbago Carpensis and I have googled and discovered that whilst the plant when I bought said likes minimum temperatures of around 60f and I have treated it as a tender plant and put it away for the winter months the website says it will take all but the cruellest of London winters!! Has anyone else put theirs in the ground and left it year round?

 

I bought a Plumbago plant last summer, good deep blue flowers and a nice stocky plant.
I've overwintered it and nothing much as yet, I think I might have neglected it slightly.

I grew Plumbago some years ago and gave up on it, it just grew tall and leggy with no flowers.
Just wondering if the nursery growers, probably in Holland, are treating them with chemicals in order to get compact flowering pot plants.

I do remember seeing the seed grown strain Peter in a catalogue, hope it flowers for you this year.

 

I have a Plumbago capensis planted in the ground in the greenhouse, a lot of new growth but no flowers as yet ..although i think it was late last year ..

Dave