Waterperry Veronica

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This is growing in between two rocks of a low stone retaining wall.

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Kathy Purdy is a colchicum evangelist, converting unsuspecting gardeners into colchicophiles. She gardens in rural upstate NY, which used to be USDA Hardiness Zone 4 but is now Zone 5. Kathy’s been writing since 4th grade, gardening since high school, and blogging since 2002. Find her on Instagram as kopurdy.

Now, the digging and dividing of perennials, the general autumn cleanup and the planting of spring bulbs are all an act of faith. One carries on before the altar of delayed gratification, until the ground freezes and you can’t do any more other than refill the bird feeder and gaze through the window, waiting for the snow. . . . Meanwhile, it helps to think of yourself as a pear tree or a tulip. You will blossom spectacularly in the spring, but only after the required period of chilling.

~Adrian Higgins in The Washington Post, November 6, 2013

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eliz May 16, 2009, 10:48 pm

I though that blue plant was flax (linum?) at first, but I see it is veronica. Neither are great plants for me. It’s very pretty!

Kathy Purdy May 17, 2009, 11:47 am

I do also have Linum perenne (blue flax), growing nearby, in fact. But it is a much larger flower (somewhere between a nickel and a dime; the veronica tops out at the size of a pea) and the flowers fade by noon, so I often forget to take pictures of it.

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