Isotoma axillaris Beths Blue - Rock Isotome

Laurentia 'Beth's Blue', a variety of Isotoma axillaris, is a very recent American creation, with its lavender-purple flowering with blue reflections being particularly bright. This infinitely graceful perennial plant, often grown as an annual in our climates, forms a beautiful dome of finely cut foliage, covered with countless small pleasantly scented star-shaped flowers from summer to autumn. This variety is vigorous and heat resistant. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to all your compositions, whether in border plantings or in hanging baskets and containers on the terrace.

Originally from Australia, Solenopsis axillaris is a herbaceous perennial with woody base that grows very rapidly and is often cultivated as an annual due to its lack of hardiness, but also because of its long and abundant flowering. It belongs to the Campanulaceae family. It quickly forms a branched clump, naturally compact and nicely rounded, measuring 25 to 30cm (10 to 12in) in all directions. Its narrow, tapered, finely cut and toothed evergreen leaves are dark green. From May to October, and even until the first frosts, it produces countless small flowers with 5 pointed lobes arranged in a star shape. They are pleasantly scented. This plant is resistant to heat and drought, but will be more floriferous in fertile and moist soil.

Isotoma 'Beth's Blue' is an easy to grow and very floriferous plant, although it is little known to amateur gardeners. Decorative with its beautiful mauve-blue flowering, it can be used in flower beds among other plants, en masse in borders, and of course in pots, hanging baskets, and containers. It harmonizes well with a wide variety of other annual or perennial plants such as begonias, petunias, Bacopas, Nemesias, pink Gypsophila, or with pelargoniums, which it lightens the silhouette, for example. It is a lovely rock garden plant, which can be combined with Osteospermum, poppies, dahlias, or even with roses in orange, pink, or white tones.

Note: Please note that our young plug plants are professional products reserved for experienced gardeners: upon receipt, transplant and store them under cover (veranda, greenhouse, cold frame...) at a temperature above 14°C (57.2°F) for a few weeks before planting them outdoors once the risk of frost is definitively gone.