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Name
Gentians
Price
£ 2.50 / each
Colours
blue
Size
Height: 8cm/3inches
Spread: 30cm/12inches
Aspect
If summers are cool in your area, plant them in full sun, if they are hot provide partial shade.
Care
Most varieties need light but fertile, moist but well drained soil. Autumn flowering varieties need a neutral to acidic soil.
Uses
-Rockeries
-containers
Description
These plants are often low growing and can be evergreen or deciduous (depending on the variety). They are famous for their intensely blue bell shaped flowers, but these flowers also come in white, yellow, and rarely red. Some varieties flower in spirng, some in summer and others in autumn. Fully hardy.