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A Chinese perennial with flat rosettes of jagged, dark green, red backed, velvety leaves form a dense carpet from which arises slender stems, elegantly bearing large, very showy, nodding, trumpet shaped, yellow throated, pale pink flowers. Very romantic as the name suggests.
Easily grown in moist, well drained, preferably alkaline soil in a sheltered site and very vigorous when happy.
Winter dormant.
A spreading perennial. Roughly textured, mid to dark green, finely toothed leaves, are borne in pairs on tall, erect stems, carrying dense spikes of brilliant, sky blue, hooded, tubular flowers, throughout Summer. Remove any stems that have finished flowering and cut back to ground level at the end of autumn.
A rampant groundcover for moist shade. Popular for its round, scalloped, coarsely haired, silver veined leaves and clouds of white butterfly-like flowers borne briefly in spring. Forming a dense colony of plantlets by means of rosy red stolons, particularly nice draping from a hanging basket, which provide a too easy means of propagation and to which it owes its common name.
Tends to desiccate in our low humidity summers but its vigour soon compensates during cooler, humid weather to the point that it may need annual thinning.
Not hardy but unique, lovely and easy to grow, if you can provide it with a choice spot. Maybe as a groundcover between large ferns and cool climate shrubs.
A quiet little performer, slowly carpeting via underground stolons and an ideal groundcover under Roses or other flowering shrubs from whose shelter it will benefit. Soft stems, clothed in alternate pairs of small, dark green, rose tinted, scalloped, ovate leaves, emerge from the soil with the onset of winter rain. By spring the stems have lengthened, now wearing apple green, elliptical leaves, and bear short, one sided spikes of tubular, two lipped, pure white flowers. Dainty and elegant.
Minimal water required during summer dormancy but strictly for light soils.
Tiny little scalloped, softly haired, heart shaped, ground hugging leaves emerge from slowly spreading underground stolons. Pure white, 2cm long, tubular, lipped flowers are produced throughout the warmer months and occasionally through Winter.
Provided good drainage it makes a delightful ground cover among rocks or possibly the cutest pot specimen ever. You could even try planting it with the bright lavender and slightly larger S. indica var. parvifolia.