Variegated Siberian Bugloss
Brunnera macrophylla 'Variegata'
Bold white and light green bordered leaves provide a dramatic background for the vivid azure-blue forget-me-not flowers. Brightens shady areas in borders or woodland settings or as a groundcover. Herbaceous.
| Botanical Pronunciation: | BROO-ner-uh mak-roh-FIL-uh |
| Key feature: | Groundcover |
| Plant types: | Groundcover, Perennial |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Herbaceous |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 3 - 9 |
| Light needs: | Full to partial shade |
| Water Needs: | Needs wet or constantly moist soil. |
| Average landscape size: | Moderate growth 12 to 18 inches tall , 12 to 15 inches wide. |
| Growth rate: | Moderate |
| Flower attribute: | Showy Flowers |
| Special features: | Dramatic Foliage Color |
| Landscape use: | Woodland Garden |
| Flower color: | Blue |
| Blooms: | Spring |
| Foliage color: | Variegated |
| Item no.: | 1365 |
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Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. For a neat appearance, remove old foliage before new leaves emerge. Divide clumps every 2 to 3 years in early spring.
Design Ideas
A delicate beauty for shaded spaces beneath tree groves and copses. Bright filler for shaded exposures in foundation planting. Solves problems by covering weed producing ground beneath large shrubs that have lost their skirt foliage. Particularly lovely in speckled shade beneath white lattice arbors and structures. Casual appearance resembles wildflowers in wild gardens and casual habitat plantings.
Companion Plants
This groundcover is ideal for beneath Nuccio's Bella Rossa Camellia, (Camellia japonica 'Nuccio Bella Rossa'), Marge Miller Camellia, (Camellia sasanqua 'Marge Miller') and cold hardy Winter's Fire Ice Angels Camellia, (Camellia hybrid 'Winter's Fire'). It's exceptional with Black Tulip Magnolia, (Magnolia x soulangiana 'JURmag1) and Wolf Eyes Dogwood, (Cornus kousa 'Wolf Eyes')
History
An Old World perennial that falls into the Boraginaceae with many well known herbs. This species is native to the Caucasus and western Siberia. The genus was classified by the Russian botanist, Christian von Steven and named for a Swiss botanist. Species was given by the Arnold Arboretum's Ivan Murray Johnson.
Lore
Brunnera is so like traditional forget-me-not that it once shared the same genus, Myosotis. It has jumped continents to naturalize in some parts of North America.
Bold white and light green bordered leaves provide a dramatic background for the vivid azure-blue forget-me-not flowers. Brightens shady areas in borders or woodland settings or as a groundcover. Herbaceous.
Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. For a neat appearance, remove old foliage before new leaves emerge. Divide clumps every 2 to 3 years in early spring.
Design Ideas
A delicate beauty for shaded spaces beneath tree groves and copses. Bright filler for shaded exposures in foundation planting. Solves problems by covering weed producing ground beneath large shrubs that have lost their skirt foliage. Particularly lovely in speckled shade beneath white lattice arbors and structures. Casual appearance resembles wildflowers in wild gardens and casual habitat plantings.
Companion Plants
This groundcover is ideal for beneath Nuccio's Bella Rossa Camellia, (Camellia japonica 'Nuccio Bella Rossa'), Marge Miller Camellia, (Camellia sasanqua 'Marge Miller') and cold hardy Winter's Fire Ice Angels Camellia, (Camellia hybrid 'Winter's Fire'). It's exceptional with Black Tulip Magnolia, (Magnolia x soulangiana 'JURmag1) and Wolf Eyes Dogwood, (Cornus kousa 'Wolf Eyes')
History
An Old World perennial that falls into the Boraginaceae with many well known herbs. This species is native to the Caucasus and western Siberia. The genus was classified by the Russian botanist, Christian von Steven and named for a Swiss botanist. Species was given by the Arnold Arboretum's Ivan Murray Johnson.
Lore
Brunnera is so like traditional forget-me-not that it once shared the same genus, Myosotis. It has jumped continents to naturalize in some parts of North America.
| Botanical Pronunciation: | BROO-ner-uh mak-roh-FIL-uh |
| Key feature: | Groundcover |
| Plant types: | Groundcover, Perennial |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Herbaceous |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 3 - 9 |
| Light needs: | Full to partial shade |
| Water Needs: | Needs wet or constantly moist soil. |
| Average landscape size: | Moderate growth 12 to 18 inches tall , 12 to 15 inches wide. |
| Growth rate: | Moderate |
| Flower attribute: | Showy Flowers |
| Special features: | Dramatic Foliage Color |
| Landscape use: | Woodland Garden |
| Flower color: | Blue |
| Blooms: | Spring |
| Foliage color: | Variegated |
| Item no.: | 1365 |
