A new take on an old-fashioned favourite, Heliotropium 'Augusta Lavender' is covered in lavender purple blooms with a yellow eye set against large, lush green leaves.
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Pairing classic beauty with unexpected toughness, Heliotropium 'Augusta Lavender' has a somewhat upright, mounding habit and blooms from Spring to Autumn through the hottest and most humid conditions in part to full sun.
Although 'Augusta Lavender' is not a petite plant, it does add a soft presence in your landscape beds as a border plant or as a colourful filler in understory positions with less sun. This Heliotropium grows in width rather than height, and more so when heavy with flower, which is ideal for both solo feature pot planting and as the main event in larger combination container planting. The cheerful blooms and richly textured foliage are great for fresh-cut flower arrangements indoors.
Include a healthy dose of your preferred controlled release fertiliser when planting into either garden beds or containers. In colder regions, this initial feed for a garden planting should suffice for the season, but if planting in warmer regions or in containers anywhere, additional feeding of every two to three months of either your controlled release or water-soluble fertiliser will help maintain vigour and new growth. Keep moist but well-drained, particularly in containers, and avoid watering the foliage.
If the habit or form of 'Augusta Lavender' begins to look a bit open or tired, an overall trim of no more than one quarter of the entire plant will invigorate new branching and flowering. Taking the fresh-cut flower indoors to enjoy will help when sacrificing those blooms for the good of the plant, which will quickly recover within weeks.
Ingesting Heliotropes can be harmful to humans and animals.
gloves & wash hands after gardening.
