A welcome sight in the garden in March/April is the Pulmonaria Roy Davidson
Pulmonaria was one of those plants which never really thrived in our Aberdeen garden. Here in Cheshire, Roy Davidson is making its presence felt.
Roy Davidson in our garden
Last February I spotted this Pulmonaria in several positions in our North facing back garden. The odd positioning of them convinced me that most of the plants had self seeded.
The colder January and February of this year, meant that our Pulmonaria held back until the second week of March before starting to bloom.
I never really got to grips with Pulmonaria in Aberdeen, although in the last couple of years whilst we were there I was hearing a lot about one named Blue Ensign many said it was the best blue available, however when it died back after flowering in Spring, it was gone and didn’t re-emerge until early Spring in the following year.
Roy Davidson, I am pleased to say is behaving very differently here in our Cheshire garden.
After flowering this Spring I intend to split some of the larger clumps and find spaces in our woodland path for them.
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The semi evergreen leaves may well die back in a severe Winter, however before the season is finished you will likely see them start to show again. Here in the North West coast of England the small powdery blue flowers start to show colour in late February or early March.
As the pale blue flowers age, they transform into a soft shade of pink, this results in a plant with blue and pink flowers at the same time.
As well as the benefit from a Spring plant with a long flowering period this Pulmonaria has distinctive and attractive mid green foliage splashed with silvery white spots.
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