Prunella grandiflora

Ground-covering hardy native wildflower with rich purple-blue and pink flowers in late spring

Prunella grandiflora

Prunella grandiflora

Prunella grandiflora

Prunella grandiflora, two-litre container

Established plants in two-litre containers

Description

Prunella grandiflora is a lovely little native wildflower that makes for particularly good ground cover in sunny spots where the soil doesn’t completely dry out. For much of the year it is a neat but unassuming plant, with deep-green slender leaves that mat-together to form carpets of ground-cover where it’s happy. From late-spring it then explodes into a spray of short flowering stems that then open into flowers of the richest purple-blue colours, each diminutive individual flower exotically shaped with curved lips (much like the flowers on large salvias) arranged in a whorl around the flowering spike. It is much loved by wildlife – where we have some growing in a sunny moist spot the area positively hums with pollinators when the flowers open out. The foliage, which is semi-evergreen and survives our mild west-country winters well, also does an excellent job at suppressing weeds.

These established, garden-ready plants have been grown in peat-free compost at our nursery in Cornwall, and are supplied in two-litre containers. The foliage will grow in clumps to about 10cm (4 inches) high, with flowers held a few cms above this up to around 20cm (8 inches). Where happy the plant will spread and self-seed to form small colonies.

Growing Advice

Self-heal plants are found natively in damp, open meadow areas, mingling with clover and other wildflowers but adapted to dodge grazers and shine when the taller poppies are cut down. It is happiest in a sunny location that doesn’t dry out, but will flower well in semi-shaded locations – though the degree of sunshine it gets does seem to impact the colouring of the flowers, which for us has always ranged from rich purple-blue to a more pinky-blue in colour. It will come back most strongly when deadheaded after flowering, which will direct energy into the mat-forming foliage. It’s vigorous but not aggressive, and will gently self-seed where happy, but is always quite easy to remove if it sneaks into areas it isn’t wanted!

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