Omphalodes
Navelwort, Navelseed
- Height × spread
- 0.15m – 0.3m × 0.2m – 0.4m
- Position
- Part shade
Availability
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About this plant
These cover both annual, perennial and herbaceous forms. They are generally used in shady positions where they make good ground cover. Omphalodes verna appeals because of its delightful white-eyed, blue flowers that appear in spring on this otherwise quiet and creeping low ground cover. Much livelier in appearance are the Omphalodes cappadocica forms with clusters of soft blue flowers, likewise white-eyed and sitting attractively amongst and above the foliage clumps with their quite large heart shaped leaves. There are a number of cultivars available including 'Starry Eyes' with showy blue and white striped blooms. There are several garden worthy annual forms including white flowered, sun loving Omphalodes linifolia. There is a pink flowered form, Omphalodes luciliae, and a taller perennial Omphalodes nitida that stands 65cm and also carries blue flowers.
- Flower colour
- Blue, White
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- No
- Shape
- Dome
- Height
- 0.15m – 0.3m
- Spread
- 0.2m – 0.4m
- Season of interest
- Spring, Summer
- Evergreen
- Evergreen
- Garden style
- Shady court, Cottage garden
- Sun or shade
- Likes part shade, likes light shade
- Soil type
- Chalk, Clay, Loam (normal)
- Soil pH
- All types
- Drainage
- Well drained soil
- Winter hardiness
- Varies, most are hardy
- Borders & containers
- Borders
- Use for
- Ground cover
- Hazards
- No
Spring
Spring - late · Outdoors
Feed with slow release fertiliser
Apply a general purpose slow release fertiliser, spreading it around the root area of the plant as it is coming into growth. (Or apply a liquid feed at regular intervals throughout the growing season.)
This is a simple way to provide a nutrient boost as a single annual procedure.
Spring-Autumn · Outdoors
Water during dry periods
For plants in the ground, when there has been little or no rain for a period of 7-10 days and the soil is dry, give it a deep watering and repeat weekly until there is a downpour of rain. Check plants in pots more frequently, especially in hot weather.
Spring - early-mid · Planting
Divide when too large
The plant can be divided if it becomes too large or another plant is required. This may involve physically dividing the clump in two, removing offsets or small bulbs or dividing rhizomes. The new plants can be grown in pots or planted in the ground.
Found in
More Omphalodes
Omphalodes cappadocica
Blue eyed Mary, Dogwood navelsweed
Omphalodes cappadocica 'Cherry Ingram'
Blue eyed Mary, Dogwood navelsweed
Omphalodes cappadocica 'Starry Eyes'
Blue eyed Mary, Dogwood navelsweed
Omphalodes verna
Creeping forget-me-not, Creeping navelseed
Omphalodes verna 'Alba'
Creeping forget-me-not, Creeping navelseed