Description
A small, mat-forming, groundcover evergreen perennial with loose, elliptical rosettes of silky soft, grey-green, leaves that can have a trailing habit. It has dainty, aromatic, lilac-pink flowers with brightly coloured red/yellow eyes which appear from mid-summer on 10cm high stalks.
Habit – Mound Forming
Resilience – Hardy
Flowering Time – May – October
Height and spread – 8 x 20 cm
Ideal Conditions – Prefers full sun, or partial shade with free-draining soil or compost.
Possibile situation – Ideal for rockeries, stone walls, gravel beds and paved areas. Allow it to creep into cracks and crevasses.
Features –
Typical season – Summer
Flower Colour – pink
Foliage Colour – green
Flowering time – May – October
Planting recommendation – Rockery Prefers – Full Sun
Temperature tolerance – A hardy plant which should survive normal winter conditions outside, especially if protected from the hardest frosts.
Plant care –
Family – PRIMULACEAE Genus – Androsace Cultivar –
Pot Sizes – 9cm Pot Spacing –
Growing Media and irrigation – Free draining – keep evenly moist
Feeding fertiliser – NPK balanced feeding Feeding frequency – Requires infrequent feeding (Low EC)
PH Recommendation – Standard 5.0 to 5.5 Common pests – Common disease –
Species – lanuginosa
