Mertensia

Mertensia - Borage-worts, beautiful in form of foliage and stem, and in the graceful way in which they rise in panicles of blue.

Mertensia lanceolata (Pursh) DC. - prairie bluebells

Mertensia maritima (L.) S.F. Gray var. maritima -oysterleaf

Mertensia ciliata (James ex Torr.) G. Don - tall fringed bluebells

Mertensia ciliata (James ex Torr.) G. Don - tall fringed bluebells

Mertensia ciliata (James ex Torr.) G. Don var. ciliata -tall fringed bluebells

Mertensia ciliata (James ex Torr.) G. Don var. ciliata - tall fringed bluebells

Mertensia Alpina - A dwarf kind. The leaves are bluish-green; the stem 6 to 10 inches high, bearing in early summer one to three drooping terminal clusters of light blue flowers.

Mertensia Dahurica - Although very slender and liable to be broken by high winds, is hardy. It is 6 to 12 inches high, has erect branching stems, and bears in June panicles of handsome drooping azure-blue flowers. It is very pretty for the rock garden borders, and should be planted in a sheltered nook in a mixture of peat and loam. Division or seed.

Oyster Plant (Mertensia Maritima) - Very little known in gardens, and though a seaside plant and usually found growing in sea-sand, it is amenable to garden culture. Given a light sandy soil of good depth, and a sunny position where its long and succulent flower-stems may spread themselves out, carrying a long succession of turquoise-blue flowers, it is a plant that we may expect to see year after year.

Mertensia Oblongifolia - Another dwarf species. The stems are 6 to 9 inches high, and they bear handsome clustered heads of brilliant blue flowers, and deep green fleshy leaves.

Mertensia Primuloides - A beautiful and choice species from the Himalayas, with rich blue Forget-me-not like flowers. Quite happy in cool places in peat and loam. Height, 6 inches. Seeds and division.

Mertensia Sibirica - A plant of much beauty of color and grace of habit, grows and flowers for a long period in ordinary soil. The small bell-shaped flowers are borne in loose drooping clusters, gracefully terminating in arching stems. The color varies from a delicate pale purple-blue to a rosy-pink in the young flowers. A hardy perennial growing best in a peaty bog. Division.

Virginian Cowslip (Mertensia Virginica) - The handsomest of the Mertensias, bearing in early spring drooping clusters of lovely purple-blue blossoms on stems 1 to 1 1/2 feet high, the leaves large and of bluish-grey. In many gardens it never makes the slightest progress; but a sheltered, moist, peaty nook is the place for it. The finest plants are grown in moist, sandy peat, with shelter near. It is an old garden plant, and one which has never become common; in the southern country it is grown too dry.

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