While some plants may express their resentment of the desert heat in the summer, well-established plumbago shrubs bloom in Midland and Odessa well until frost. This plant loves our West Texas sunshine ...

WHAT: Dwarf plumbago sparkles in late summer and autumn gardens. Its sapphire-blue flowers begin to appear in August and continue well into October. In the later weeks of its blooming period, its ...

What: Ceratostigma plumbaginoides “dwarf plumbago” sparkles in late summer and autumn with sapphire-blue flowers that are increasingly silhouetted against the rich reds and oranges of its fall foliage ...

What's a good plant for an understory? JANE: This one is hard to beat – Dwarf plumbago or Ceratostigma plumbaginoides. It’s a long name for a small plant. It's a beauty because it's got these ...

), also called dwarf plumbago, is a sleeper of a border plant. It awakens late in spring, dutifully puts forth reddish stems topped by bright green leaves, and, just when the rest of the garden is ...

Talk about plumbagos in Southern California and nearly everyone knows which plant you have in mind — the rambling sky-blue bloomer that lines freeways or clambers up sunny patio walls, Plumbago ...