Veronica umbrosa 'Georgia Blue'  / Syn. Veronica peduncularis

Low growing, exceptionally durable, and winner of the prestigious Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society, 'Georgia Blue' Veronica is a low growing flowering perennial groundcover plant featuring a spreading mound of attractive, small, dark green and glossy evergreen leaves that become smothered in late winter to mid spring, February through April in our north-central Georgia gardens, by an abundance of pretty, cobalt-blue flowers with cute little white eyes. Attractive even when not in flower, Georgia Blue Veronica is an easy-to-grow and long-lived evergreen groundcover or filler for underplanting perennials, shrubs and spring bulbs in garden beds or pots. You might be happy to know it is attractive to butterflies but deer turn their nose up to it.

Growing about 6 inches tall with a spread of 12 inches or more, Georgia Blue Veronica is ideal for use as a low border along garden beds, paths and walkways. It also serves well as an underplanting for small trees and is perhaps most impressive planted in mass in landscape borders. We've even used it as a crevice filler around boulders. Not impressive as a stand alone in containers but a wonderful addition to mixed container gardens. A fine addition to cottage, rock and blue color theme gardens.

Suggested Spacing:  10-12" apart for mass plantings or border

Note:  For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 6a, where Georgia Blue Veronica is not reliably winter hardy, you'll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Georgia Blue Veronica is easy to grow in a range of conditions. It's not too picky about soil type or soil moisture and grows well in full sun or part shade. That said, we have this Veronica growing as a border in several spots throughout our gardens and it performs equally as well in somewhat dry soils as it does in somewhat moist soils. Moist but well-drained soils are probably the best. Well-drained moist soils of average fertility are probably the best.