Blue Lady Browallia is a stunning heirloom flower that brings intense, jewel-tone blue blooms to summer and fall gardens. This cultivar of Browallia americana grows to a compact 24 inches tall and 12-24 inches wide, making it equally at home in containers, borders, or as a cheerful filler among other plants. From seed to first bloom takes 84-112 days, so starting indoors 6-8 weeks before your last frost gives you flowers by early summer. Hardy in zones 10-11, it thrives in full sun with moderate watering and attracts pollinators throughout its long blooming season.
Full Sun
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10-11
24in H x 24in W
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Blue Lady produces rich blue flowers from June through November, offering color when many summer annuals fade. The compact growth habit and extended bloom window make it remarkably reliable for season-long garden interest. Its heirloom status speaks to decades of gardeners choosing to save and replant this variety, drawn by the electric blue of its flowers and the way it blooms without letup through autumn.
Blue Lady Browallia is grown as an ornamental flowering plant valued for its prolific blue blooms. It excels as a container specimen, garden border accent, or mixed planting where its compact size and continuous flowering add summer-to-fall interest without overwhelming neighboring plants.
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Sow seeds indoors 6-8 weeks before your last frost date. Surface sow the tiny seeds and press them gently into the soil without covering them, as light helps germination. Keep the seed tray at 65-75°F and maintain consistent moisture. Seedlings will emerge in 6-21 days.
Harden off seedlings by gradually exposing them to outdoor conditions over 7-10 days. Transplant outdoors after your last frost date when soil has warmed. Space plants according to their mature width of 12-24 inches.
In zones 8 and warmer, direct sow seeds after the last frost date outdoors. Surface sow and press seeds in, as they need light for germination.
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