Nemesia 'Blue Bird'

I love this plant and it seems to bloom all year round here in Memphis TN. At one point when the weather was extremely hot I thought it h...Read Moread died when it turned brown. But then it came right back. It is in a clay pot out front. Our home faces North. It seems to want to hang over the pot, but that looks good too. The tiny blooms are such a great shade of blue.

This is one of my favorite annuals! However, either it didn't get the memo about being an annual OR it re-seeded itself because I've had...Read More it persist over several seasons in my Bellaire garden when planted in really well-draining soil. I have two faux-stone (concrete-like) English planters in which it's hard to keep anything growing through a Houston summer. Nemesia made it through by seeming to go dormant, but reappearing once the weather cooled down. It was too thick to really tell if this was via seeding or IF the roots simply went dormant. It also persisted in the driest part of one of my beds. It's really hard to get this plant in November which is the best time to get it into the ground my Zone 9b garden.
Leslie