Duranta Sapphire Showers
Its average texture blends into the landscape but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.
Duranta sapphire showers. The duranta flowering plant duranta erecta may reach up to 10 feet 3 m in height and flowers profusely from summer until the first heavy frost. Its average texture blends into the landscape but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition. Nothing gathers attention like deep blue violet flowers and the sapphire showers golden dewdrop duranta erecta sapphire showers also called pigeon berry or skyflower delights with blossoms edged in white. The shrub like plant is multi stemmed and the branches are somewhat droopy.
Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 8b to 11 with its frilly purple and white flowers which bloom from late spring into summer. Violet blossomed duranta varieties like sapphire showers remain the most popular in cultivation. Duranta erecta sapphire showers picotee sky flower grown for its summer flowers and ornamental fruit this selection of the popular pigeon berry may prove more compact than the species which grows with an arching habit to 25 feet tall and nearly as wide grown as a tree it is more upright in habit with a spread about half the width. Commonly called picotee sky flower duranta erecta sapphire showers livens gardens within u s.
Browse pictures and read growth cultivation information about duranta golden dew drop pigeon berry sky flower duranta erecta sapphire showers supplied by member gardeners in the plantfiles. If you see duranta plants with gold foliage like variegata or gold edge be aware that they may not produce as many flowers as the standard foliage plants. The sapphire showers golden dewdrop duranta erecta sapphire showers adds interest to the landscape with its clusters of bluish purple trumpet shaped flowers. Duranta erecta sapphire showers grow and care shrub to small tree of the genus duranta also known as duranta repens sapphire showers duranta erecta sapphire showers perennial evergreen used as ornamental plant also grow as bonsai and attract pollinators can grow in subtropics mediterranean or tropics climate and growing in hardiness zone 8.
A white cultivar alba also exists.