Navelwort

Navelwort (Omphalodes) - Pretty dwarf rock or mountain plants belonging to the Borage order.

Omphalodes Cappadocica - A new and brilliant addition that should be grown by all. The plant is vigorous habited, forming foot-high mounds crowded with rich gentian-blue flowers like a glorified Forget-me-Not. Delights in cool loam. A most beautiful and amiable plant, flowering in spring.

Omphalodes Linifolia - A distinct Portuguese hardy annual, 9 to 12 inches high, with glaucous-green leaves and pure white flowers from June to August; it may be grown in ordinary soil, the seeds sown in April or in September and October; the plant often sows itself.

Omphalodes Luciliae - A lovely rock plant, with flowers a pretty lilac-blue, and glaucous grey foliage. It is hardy, and succeeds in the rock garden, but the soil must be thoroughly drained, for though the plant requires abundance of water during growth, it suffers from stagnant moisture. To protect it against slugs, which are too fond of it, strips of perforated zinc, about 3 inches wide, bent so as to form rings round the plants, are used. It is best increased by seeds, and may be cultivated with success in the moraine, and grows well in sandy loam and peat. Asia Minor.

Creeping Forget-me-Not (Omphalodes Verna) - A pretty hardy plant, bearing in early spring handsome flowers of a deep clear blue with white throats. The plant is useful for borders and the rock and spring garden: no plant is more worthy of naturalisation; in cool, thin woods it runs about like a native plant, and in any position is one of the prettiest plants. There is a white variety, not so pretty as the blue.

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