Didiscus Caeruleus Blue Lace Flower Plant
BLUE LACE FLOWER
The pale lavender blue of the blue lace flower may be easily combined with other plants. It goes very well with all shades of blue and green, will adorn a grey-and-white border, and, in an impressionistic one, may create brilliant color combinations with lemon yellow, apricot, salmon pink, and even orange, which is so often a problem. The plants with their pale green leaves take up hardly any room, and the long stems bearing the 2-in wide flower heads may need some support. It is best to use bushy plants for the purpose. They should not be more than 20 in tall, and the blue lace flowers will then appear just above them.
Find the most sheltered and warmest possible place for the plant, because it grows naturally in western Australia. It prefers loose, fairly dry soil, which may well be nutritive - to enable it to flower even more exuberantly. Sow the annual indoors in March-April, or outdoors in April-May. The strikingly beautiful flower heads - eminently suitable for vases - develop between July and October.
