| Description | A short Heliotrope cultivars with deep dark blue fragrant flowers. A tender perennial grown as an annual. |
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| Pronunciation | (hee-li-oo-TROP-i-um)(ar-bo-RES-enz) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Perennial Tender |
| Hardiness Zone | 9-10 |
| Sunlight | full is best for flowering, tolerates some shade |
| Moisture | average, moist, never soggy |
| Soil & Site | average, moist |
| Temperature | tolerates to the 40s F, killed by frost |
| Flowers | dark blue to blue-violet blossoms, borne in umbels, fragrant, flowers best during the warm parts of the growing season |
| Leaves | deep dark green |
| Roots | fibrous |
| Dimensions | 12 inches tall |
| Propagation | seeds may not come true, cuttings |
| Native Site | Heliotrope arborescence is native to Peru. |
| Misc Facts | They became very popular during the Victoria era. They bedded out the plants and over wintered them in their conservatories. Helios is Greek for the sun, trope means to turn, arborescence means tree like, referring to its shrubby form. |
| Notes & Reference | #28-Cottage Garden Annuals(Clive Lane) #37-The Contained Garden (Kenneth A. Beckett, David Carr), #47-Annuals for the Connoisseurs (Wayne Winterrowd) #48-Harrowsmiths Annual Garden (Bennet and Forsyth) #51-Armitage's Manual of Annuals, Biennials, and Half-Hardy Perennials (Alan Arimitage) |
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