I have never been able to grow lobelia but....on my walks through the village and out into the countryside here in Northern France, I pass properties, lobelia cascading down cool stone walls, north facing and probably enjoying sunshine in the coolest moments of the summer days. Last year, we had no rain for 6 months, and still, these beautiful blue blooms shone out, not in the least affected 💙. The envy of all who pass by. Good luck with your new attempt 🤞
I tuck nasturtium seeds wherever I put lobelia. Just as the lobelia gives out in the heat, the nasturtium really take off and cover the waning lobelia ❤
I grew Crystal Palace Lobelia from Botanical Interests from seed and it was awesome! I put it on the west side of my house, watered everyday and it performed beautifully. Zone 4b
I started lobelia from seed for the first time this year. Seedlings were so tiny for so long but I now have 14 nice clumps ready for hardening off. If only it would warm up 🌱
Gosh Danielle, I was waiting for you to go get that Easter egg! 😊 I’m in Newfoundland,Canada zone 5b. For years I planted lobelia in my pots. But for the past 5 yrs or so it always dies off. I’ve stopped buying it.
Your garden is so inspiring! I grow native lobelia - siphilitica and cardinalis- and it's a champ in all weather. Different growth habit though, so it has a different place in the garden. It loves water!
I love lobelia but also find they peter out in the heat. Great to hear more heat tolerant varieties are being grown. Count your lucky stars that that you didn’t pay nearly $7 for PW like I have to here in central KY!!!!! My heart just melted with the first note of For the Beauty of the Earth - what an appropriate piece, (by your mother?)
Oh I love your garden & I'm sad I cant have a garden due to the extreme heat & so I just dream through yours. Thank you & yes I agree I love the Extre potted plants too, bigger flowers & these have some purple in them indeed lol I did see that
I love your video, and I loved your Lobelia and I noticed cultivars and I am in a desert here in Las Vegas but I converted my pool to a garden and it stays pretty wet with the irrigation system. I have going right now. And I have found that little bill you will reseed it self. However, this summer has been ridiculously hot like we actually hit 122 and everything croaked so I don’t know what to think about what to plant anymore. Dalia’s went by the way so long time ago but I am enjoying your posts.
The way you ended up designing your cut garden, is really special and very beautiful 🙏💖 I will be sure to get lobelia again this year. They sure do perform 💐💐💐
I'm in humid hot Central Ontario 🇨🇦 and the only way I'm successful is as a trailer in hanging baskets or pots that are in part shade to shade and chop them back after each flush of blooms. I grow mine from seed.
I am not planting either yet as I am in similar weather pattern of Zone 6a SW Ohio. I bought lobelia also, as I am a blue flower gal also. Mine are very dense with flowers and they are a deep royal purple at 3.99 for 4 plugs. Hope they will make it thru the humidity of summer!
Wow, what a coincidence! I just planted 3 Lobelia “Magadi” in a container today. They are a really deep blue, I just love them. I buy these every year I’m in zone 8. They generally do okay for a while then just die when the heat comes. I buy them as temporary pretty flowers for the porch steps of my “greenhouse” which it’s more like a small all window wall she shed of sorts. I hope you are successful at getting them to keep growing, flowering.
Have you ever tried growing Chinese Forget Me Not? They are easy to grow from seed and are the most TRUE BLUE flower I’ve grown!! They grow about 12-18 inches, last through the summer season until frost( I’m in NJ) and have small flowers that resemble Forget me nots. I suggest you give them a try- it’s not too late to direct sow them outside. 🤷♀️
LAST year I was able to obtain a Proven winner actually blue flower, lower growing, full sun, but morning shade condition called Morning glory. Unable to find my tag but if I see it again, DEFINITELY will get it again. On going flowers, no dead heading needed. Did water when we didn't get rain. Tried to save it over winter with extra mulch and an inverted bucket without success. Thou called Morning glory it DOESN'T have the seed heads that actual morning glories have.😢 I loved this plant DID WELL. Greatly appreciate your videos. Have a glorious day
Hello Grace. Glad to see you're doing well. The garden's looking lovely. I'm definitely following your recommendations for trialing different heat tolerant lobelias. 🌼🌼🌻🌻
I love the lobelias. I can't believe that's all your paid for PW quart plants. They looked like a quart maybe 4.25? I'm in California and they are 10.00. Isn't that crazy?
I wintersowed Lobelia “blue Heaven” from Renee’s garden seeds; these are listed as a weather tolerant variety good for window boxes. I got very good germination and am looking forward to planting them out soon here in 6A central Ohio, some in half sun/half shade window boxes. We’ll see how they do!
I really love this plant for the intense pop of color it provides , and it’s so easy to add into existing hanging baskets or pots. I use it in small pockets at my northeast entrance , in rich well draining soil . It likes our mild weather in spring and can take the intense sun of summer which stays on this side till about 2 or 3pm . I keep it mulched and semi protected with larger shrubs and perennials , and it adds a perfect layer of color beside the oxalis , hostas , sunshine ligustrrum, lavender , and pansies .
I actually like the same one as your chose for the same reason. It will be interesting to see how each one does the best. It has been cold here the last three days after a week of high eighties.
Labella is my favorite!! It does not do well once it gets hot and humid here in Northern Indiana, but I plant it every year. Maybe it’s not getting enough water. I just keep trying.
Hi Daniele. To grow these successfully you’ll need to amend your soil. So dig out a deeper hole than you’d normally dig for that size. Now line the bottom of the hole in gravel. Then mix up a compost and add ‘sharp sand’ or ‘horticultural grit’ (which is the better of the two! ) mix until it feels free draining. Then back fill the hole/plant with that amendment. A thick layer over the grit at the bottom. Your home soil doesn’t go back around the plant. This helps to keep it from getting too wet as they don’t perform so well if they’re too wet. They love the heat, they come from a hot dry country but a little shade of it gets over 35• c is great.
Perfect timing since just today I was trying to decide whether or not to plant blue lobelia. Like you here in east TN it stays wet and hot during much of the summer, and I've only had minimal success with lobelia in hot weather. I ended up not purchasing it today but still want blue lobelia. I did have one of my blue balloon flowers come back from last year.
Thanks for sharing Danielle! Our temperature here in Missouri, zone 6B is finally warm enough to plant out warm weather crops, so exciting! Not going below 50s at night.
You the only way I can get it to last the summer. Lovely choice of music too!are so peaceful and lovely. I enjoy your calm demeanor. I love lobelia and just put it in my garden today. Usually I use it only in pot’s because it’s
I love lobelia as well, but have struggled when it gets hot too. My neighbour’s survive summer and look awesome right till frost. She has the planted with lots of morning sun from the east and south, but with afternoon shade. I’m going to try her trick this year!
I’m in the state right below you in Maryland and I can’t believe how cold it is. I actually had to put my heat back on and that really disturbs me because I am trying to keep my light bill down. Your garden looks gorgeous and my yard is just so wet when I put a shovel in the dirt it back fills with water. The ground is so saturated from the rain we’ve had.
Hi Danielle, we grow lobelia in Australia and our summers get really hot. We grow them in pots and hanging baskets and they do well in those. You can shift them to a cooler position when the area gets too hot.
I don't know which skill you excell at more, gardening or designing. I agree with you, the darker blue is my favorite. I've been nervously eying the forecast for overnight lows. A couple nights I should have taken in my containers because the lobelia I planted lost its blooms. I think they'll rebound after a trim.
Try the Scaevola ( Blue Fan Flower). It looks Exactly like the Lobelia. It has 5 fan petals instead of 3. It loves hot sunny weather. The hotter the better. 75-85 degrees. You only water it about once a week. It is has beautiful tiny bright blue violet fan like flowers. You do not have to prune or deadhead the flowers. It stays the same from May to late September it just spreads and gets bigger. The perfect flower.!!You can put it in a pot as a hanging basket or in the ground.
Lobelia is one of my favorites, I always use it around my little insect pond to represent blue water. You mentioned another fav... celosia, can't wait for it!! Your garden looks awesome, I'm in zone 6b also in Indiana but my shrubs aren't nearly as leafed out as yours.😊
Lacuna seem to do well with Geranium. Geranium like water and must draw the water from the Laguna. I kept them for two seasons, over wintering them in an enclosed area by morning sun, unheated area, in a plastic planter.
I love your experiments! And I love the blue of lobelia! I had a hanging basket of lobelia by my front porch a few years ago and everytime I came home, it just made me smile!! That blue is just gorgeous. I tried growing lobelia from seed this year, but I should have started it sooner as it's very small yet and I don't think it's one of the heat tolerant newer kinds. It'll be fun watching how these plants do in your garden. We're in zone 6b also, but I think we're 1-2 weeks behind you as far as I can tell with what is coming up in the garden. Your garden is looking more beautiful every year! Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing!!
I have the Great Blue Lobelia (Siphilitica). It is so beautiful in the late summer here in New Hampshire zone 5b. It does go to seed everywhere so I end up with many seedlings. I don't mind that, however, since I can easily move that plant all around my garden. 🌷🌻
I grew the PW Laguna Lobelia a few years ago in mixed containers. If I remember correctly, they pretty much lasted and bloomed all summer. Grace was so cute running back and forth enjoying herself! 🥰
Same problem w lobelia ,they die pretty fast after planting them .a friend of mine lost a bunch just to replace yhrr we m all ,just to loose them all again ,I have never bought them again but I lovd them
Hi Danielle I grew the techno blue upright blue lobelia last year in a pot with other annuals on my deck in full afternoon sun in zone 6a and it did great! I watered the pot in the morning and sometimes again in the afternoon. It performed well all summer. I also kept up with fertilizing it to. Good luck, I Hope yours will do well too. 😍
It's so true that there are too few blue flowers.Hummingbirds love Cardinal Flowers (red lobelia,) I wonder if the blue will be visited as regularly. Fun to tag along as always, Danielle!
I have tried lobelia so many times, in pots, ground hanging baskets and always fail. So I gave up. As soon as the heat comes they fizzle in any location in our yard. I’m anxious to see your results, Danielle. Thank you.
I’m also testing lobelia! I got the native great blue lobelia and planted it in a VERY shady (but bright) spot. The native nursery owner told me it’d do better in some shade in my humid TN climate.
I got the Lobelia Techno Dark Blue this year too - LOVE a true blue flower. I also got a lilac riviera variety that says it will do well in heat too. I'm hoping they do well this summer. I'm in Lancaster too so my fingers are crossed!
I'm in Southwest Ohio z 6 A. My generic nursery lobelia just melt in summer, even in part shade/pampered in pots. I have tryed PW & they stood up to the heat in a pot, 6 hrs Sun. They got really big. I did loose it end of summer but soil wasn't kept moist. I am curious how PW hold up in the ground. Good experiment. Love your style & enjoy your garden.
I think the lobelia will do just fine, maybe cut back half a plant at a time, to keep blooms coming. A little shade will help too. Lovely colour with lime leaves around them!
Try Scaevola ( Blue Fan Flower) it is extremely heat tolerant. It looks EXACTLY like the Lobelia. It is hard to tell the difference. It last all summer I to the fall. It never wilts. You do not have to dead head it or pick off dead flowers. It loves hot weather 75-85 degrees. You only water it once a week. The perfect beautiful blue violet flower.
This is going to be a fun experiment. The strongest lobelia I’ve grown in the full sun has been Hot+. The flowers are prolific and huge. Mine were in containers and did great until late August.
I adore lobelia, but I've NEVER been able to keep it going in summer. Very disappointing. I'm interested to see how these two new varieties handle heat and humidity.
Hi. I just discovered your garden last week. It is amazing...I love it! I noticed today that you didn't bother roughing up the root bound Lobelia before you planted them. It isn't necessary to do that for all plants I guess?
Hi Danielle! Lobelia is my absolute favorite! Since I live so close to you, would you tell me the name of the nursery where you purchased those lobelia so I can go get some, please???? Thank you! I hope we have good luck with them. I did try the PW ones last year and they lasted throughout the summer but they didn’t really grow after it got hot. That’s ok; I’ll take that, at least they didn’t die and it was super hot last summer. I grow mine in pots though so I’ll try both in pots and in the garden and see if I might have some success. I’ve grown them from seed also. I started them in July…just put soil in a hanging basket and put the seeds on top. They do t take long to germinate…by August, the plants were growing nicely and they turned into a beautiful planter that lasted till frost. So, that is another option. Love your show Girlfriend!!!! 😊
I love lobelia and have tried growing it over and over. Mine never makes it to the heat of summer because the earwigs decimate it! It’s so infuriating!
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Hi Judy! I changed the water once. I’m not sure if that’s proper or not. Many of mine floated to the bottom also. Some of the ones on the bottom still sprouted.
