Milky Way Lungwort

Other Names: Lords And Ladies, Bethlehem Sage

Ornamental Features:

Milky Way Lungwort features delicate clusters of ruby-red bell-shaped flowers with powder blue overtones at the ends of the stems from mid to late spring, which emerge from distinctive burgundy flower buds. It's attractive narrow leaves remain dark green in colour with distinctive silver spots throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Milky Way Lungwort is an herbaceous perennial with a mounded form. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.

This is a relatively low maintenance perennial, and should be cut back in late fall in preparation for winter. Deer don't particularly care for this plant and will usually leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Milky Way Lungwort is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting
• Rock/Alpine Gardens
• Container Planting

Plant Characteristics:

Milky Way Lungwort will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 15 inches. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. 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 prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This plant can be propagated by division.

This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.