Pulmonaria
Lungwort
One of the earliest plants to bloom, you can be picking Lungwort’s urn-shaped flowers in February while the rest of the garden still slumbers. Easy-to-grow Pulmonarias prefer the lacy light of a woodland setting and cool moist soil. They are excellent noninvasive ground covers.
A chance seedling discovered in the early 1990s at England’s Wisley Botanical Garden, this dependable AGM victor is considered one of the best cultivated lungworts. Broad, fuzzy dark green leaves distinguish the winsome robust clump beneath vibrant, flared gentian-blue flowers. Enticing plant enthusiasts plus early spring’s hungry honeybees, ‘Blue Ensign’s clustered, nectar-rich gala lends electrifying accents to shady borders amid Primula ‘Double Lilac’, spring-blooming bulbs such as miniature daffodils and Athyrium ‘Apple Court’.
Blooms March–April
Size: 10" – 12" high x 15" wide.
Hardy to zone 5.
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Other selections in this genus:
- Pulmonaria angustifolia ‘Blaues Meer’
- Pulmonaria ‘Apple Frost’
- Pulmonaria ‘Benediction’
- Pulmonaria ‘Berries and Cream’
- Pulmonaria ‘Diana Clare’
- Pulmonaria ‘Excalibur’
- Pulmonaria ‘Little Star’
- Pulmonaria longifolia ssp. cevennensis
- Pulmonaria longifolia ‘Bertram Anderson’
- Pulmonaria ‘Majesté’
- Pulmonaria ‘Opal’
- Pulmonaria ‘Roy Davidson’
- Pulmonaria saccharata ‘Dora Bielefeld’
- Pulmonaria saccharata ‘Highdown’
- Pulmonaria saccharata ‘Sissinghurst White’
- Pulmonaria ‘Silver Streamers’
- Pulmonaria ‘Silver Bouquet’
- Pulmonaria ‘Trevi Fountain’
