Virginia Bluebell
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Boraginaceae / Borage Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
Virginia Bluebells is also known as Virginia Cowslip. ...
Mertensia pulmonarioides (Virginia bluebells, Virginia cowslip)
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Virginia Bluebells
One of nature's most unforgettable flowers is the Virginia bluebell. They are absolutely breathtaking in masses of intense blue rippling across the woodland floor.
Rain Lilies ...
Virginia Bluebells is one of the more common wildflowers that is found in urban gardens, becoming sprawling with age and dying back to the crown by mid-Summer.
Virginia Bluebell [English]: Mertensia virginica
Virginia Bluebells [English]: Mertensia virginica
Virginia Bower [English]: Clematis virginiana
Virginia Broomsedge [English]: Andropogon virginicus var. glaucus 'Silver Beauty' ...
Also useful are plants such as the ephemeral Virginia bluebell (Mertensia virginica, syn. Mertensia pulmonarioides, Zone 4), which clumps up and blooms early, April through May, then completely disappears until next year.
Pulmonaria are members of the Boraginaceae family and first cousin to other well-known garden favorites such as myosotis (forget-me-not), brunnera, symphytum, and mertensia (Virginia Bluebell).
Brunnera (Bugloss) Mertensia (Virginia Bluebells)
Caladium Monarda (Beebalm)
Cypripedium (Lady's Slipper Orchid) Polemonium (Jacob's Ladder)
Dicentra (Bleeding Heart) Polygonatum (Solomon's Seal)
Digitalis (Foxglove) Primula (Primrose) ...
Bluebell (Hyacinthoides species, Endymion species)
Virginia bluebell (Mertensia virginica)
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Mertensia virginica--Virginia Bluebells
MERTENSIA DISEASES
Metasequoia glyptostroboides--Dawn Redwood ...
thorns and briars pose no problems to them, the fibrous or fuzzy foliage of ferns, ornamental grasses, tarragon and wormwood (Artemesia), lamb's ears (Stachys) and borage-family plants like bugloss (Anchusa), borage, heliotrope, Virginia bluebells ...
Mertensia virginica ( Virginia Bluebells )
Mespilus germanica ( Showy Mespilus )
Metasequoia glyptostroboides ( Dawn Redwood ) ...
In Scotland, it is often known as the Bluebell. Elsewhere in Britain, bluebell refers to Hyacinthoides non-scripta, and in North America, bluebell refers to Virginia Bluebell.
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The plants also mix well with ferns or with woodland wildflowers such as bleeding heart and Virginia bluebells. Accent plantings with groups of colorful impatiens. They also look good in container gardens.
One of our favorite native groundcovers for the woodland garden. Yellow daisy-like flowers cover 6" evergreen foliage in spring. Rosettes of leaves slowly spread stoloniferously. Looks great with columbine and Virginia bluebells. Niche Gardens ...
They are commonly called "Virginia bluebells" and here's another rub when you use common names, there are probably 30-50 plants that have common names with the word "bluebells" in it and this leads to a lot of confusion.
Mertensia virginica (Virginia bluebells)
Myosotis scorpioides (True Forget-Me-Not)
Myosotis sylvatica (Woodland Forget-me-not)
Omphalodes verna (Blue-Eyed Mary, Creeping Forget-Me-Not)
Pulmonaria angustifolia (Cowslip Lungwort, Blue Lungwort) ...
Mertensia virginica Virginia Bluebells *
Myosotis sylvatica Forget-me-not
Phlox divaricata Wild Sweet William
Phlox stolonifera Creeping Woodland Phlox
Polygonatum species Solomon's Seal *
Primula species Primrose
Pulmonaria species Lungwort * ...
 See also: Bluebell, Bells, Bluebells, Mertensia, Virginia Bluebells
  
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