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Posted by Tropical_Muse (My Page) on

Sat, Jun 19, 04 at 17:07

Can anyone identify this fast growing woody plant? It is growing in a Southern California (Pacific Palisades) garden.

Thanks very much...Meg

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Posted by Tropical_Muse (My Page) on
Sun, Jun 20, 04 at 0:09

Bumping this down...thanks to wanda and DAVISSUE at the California Gardening Forum the plant has been given a name!

Trachelium caeruleum
'Hamer Pandora'

This new Trachelium caeruleum or "Perennial Blue Lace Flower" was bred by commercial cut flower growers for its gorgeous, lightly scented, dark purple, lacy, dense & full flower heads up to 6" across. Blooming all summer to fall, this is an extremely valuable garden plant, wonderful in a corner or mid to back of border. Rich, shiny, dark purple tingled foliage is densely borne making a compact bush up to 3' tall by 3' wide! It loves part shade (to full sun by the coast) and loamy soil. SNAIL PROOF!

Sun - Pt. Shade
Avg. Water
Long-lived Perennial

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Posted by Pagancat Phoenix, AZ (My Page) on
Thu, Jun 24, 04 at 11:58

Wow, beautiful plant. The leaves remind me of the purple passion plant. Too bad the "loamy soil" part probably means that it wouldn't do so well in Phoenix. Ah well.

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Posted by pjcalgirl z8 (My Page) on
Fri, Jul 9, 04 at 19:37

Pasific Palasades and those places can grow anything without much effort. Not that I'm jealous or anything.When I lived in Simi I had a 5ft around 6ft long spider plant.This same plant is 1ft around and 1 1/2 ft long in the high desert. Boo hoo.PJ

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Posted by Pnwjudy 8-PugetsoundWA (My Page) on
Mon, Aug 9, 04 at 21:45

I just found this plant ( Mine is Devotion Burgandy) in the annual section of a nursery here in the Pacific Northwest. I would like to keep it blooming for my daughter's wedding in 4 weeks.

How do you keep it in bloom? Should I cut off the main large flower heads now in order to get the secondary blooms to develop? Will they be as large as the ones on it now? Or should I just dead head it as the flowers go down?
Any ideas are really appreciated.

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