When I drive from Victoria up the Malahat I see blue flowers growing off road . I made an inquiry and was told it was Aubretia . I have looked it up and the colours donot come close to the same blue . I was told it will probably grow on rock and is a perennial . I was hoping to use it as a rock wall covering on SaltSpring Island . Does anyone have more info as to whether that is the correct plant ? I hope to pick a sample and take it to a nursery . Roger
Can you post pictures of the blooms and foliage? Also, you may want to move your thread to the "Plant Identification" forum for more people to see your thread :)
Lithodora is in bloom at this time. http://images.google.com/images?cli...dora&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi
I drove from Victoria up the Malahat to see if I could find a sample of the plant I was looking for . I'm beginning to think I may have been imagining what it looked like and exactly where it was . What I did find was a plant called Lupine . I took a sample and had it identified . I'm not sure how it shows itself in the growing stages , but this was different than what I thought I had seen . I did notice an abundance of of Scotch Broom everywhere and wonder if they may have smothered the plant I thought I was looking for . It will have to wait untill earlier next year when the same seasonal circumstances present them selves . Thanks for all your replies . Roger