Looking Glass Bugloss

Other Names: Siberian Bugloss

Ornamental Features:

Looking Glass Bugloss features airy cymes of sky blue flowers with yellow eyes at the ends of the stems from early to late spring. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It's attractive heart-shaped leaves remain silver in colour with distinctive grayish green veins throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Looking Glass Bugloss is an herbaceous perennial with a mounded form. Its relatively coarse texture can be used to stand it apart from other garden plants with finer foliage.

This is a relatively low maintenance perennial, and should be cut back in late fall in preparation for winter. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Looking Glass Bugloss is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Groundcover
• Mass Planting
• Container Planting

Plant Characteristics:

Looking Glass Bugloss will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity extending to 16 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 18 inches. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years.

This perennial does best in partial shade to shade. It requires an evenly moist well-drained soil for optimal growth. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. Consider applying a thick mulch around the root zone over the growing season to conserve soil moisture. This plant can be propagated by division.

This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.