This is another plant whose name I love almost as much as the flowers. It's a common enough plant around here. Why not? It is tough, it spreads by underground runners (but not too aggressively), and has incredibly rich blue flowers. When the weather turns cold, the leaves turn red.
Oh, and it is another plant whose flowers are an indication of the onset of autumn. I wonder if the plants are telling us something.
Many plants in Abq, native or not, respond when temperatures cool below 90F, as we have had for over a week...combined with the late onset of our monsoon pattern, soaking rains, higher humidity, etc.
ReplyDeleteBut our native plants are "programmed" to grow more now, since they have the rainy season to help.
Those are probably most of the reasons for blue plumbago now flowering.
(and of course, our rainy season is before fall, so that coincidence is there)